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Say Psych: Album Review: Kikagaku Moyo – Masana Temples
Masana is a fictional word created by Kikagaku Moyo to express a utopian feeling, an existence where everything can interact harmoniously and offer inspiration and understanding. The fourth LP from the band, Masana Temples, radiates this vision, architecting a vibrating world that isn’t confined to the known limits of what came before it. Kikagaku Moyo have …
Say Psych: Track: L.A. Witch – Haunting
Californian trio L.A. Witch announce their new EP Octubre, to be released on 2nd November on Suicide Squeeze Records and share the first single from it, ‘Haunting’. Octubre may be a records about unhealthy infatuations and debilitating love, but it’s also an inadvertent statement in the past and permanence. Offered to the world as a …
Premiere : Jack Ellister Readies New Album ‘Telegraph Hill’; Watch Psychedelic “Mind Maneuvers” Video
Singer/songwriter Jack Ellister is readying the release of his new album Telegraph Hill, and in preparation for that he’s dropped a new video for the psych pop track “Mind Maneuvers”. A mix of 60s technicolor psych, Pink Floyd atmosphere, and early 70s mind expansion, the new album will excite anybody that loves the lilt of …
Say Psych: Album Review: The Oscillation – Wasted Space
Following a re calibration and consolidation with their recent electronics-inflected album, 2018’s U.E.F., The Oscillation are back with their sixth and most ambitious album to date, Wasted Space. Offered up as a meditation on the nature of existence in the face of what can be insurmountable odds it fins them painting from the darker shades …
Say Psych: Video Premiere: The Nightingales – It Is
It’s unusual for an act to hit its peak after four decades. Yet here it is. BSM brings you the latest video from The Nightingales a band who have climbed to fame and become one of Britain’s most dazzling live bands. Some of The Nightingales’ historic lack of acclaim stems from a density of ideas, which the …
Say Psych: Album Review: The Lucid Dream – Actualisation
Carlisle’s The Lucid Dream are back with a new LP, Actualisation, which was released last week on Holy Are You Recordings, much to the delight of their fiercely loyal fan base. Having formed in 2008 they have a string of sold-out 7″s under their belt, as well as LP’s Songs Of Lies and Deceit released …
Say Psych: Premiere: Throw Down Bones – Two
Italy’s Throw Down Bones are something of an enigma in the experimental underground – but we hope to change that by bringing you the premiere of their second LP released tomorrow, appropriately titled Two. Since the release of their highly-praised 2015 self-titled album, they’ve picked up a notorious reputation on the European live circuit for …
Say Psych: Live Review: Strange Waves IV, Manchester 20.10.2018
Manchester promoters Strange Days and Now Wave have joined forces once more to offer a night of loosely psychedelic themed music across Manchester Academy and the Student Union. Strange Waves IV took over the two spaces and offered an eclectic mix of sounds that tickled the taste buds of many. Opening things up were Flamingods …
Track: Imperial Daze – Always Settling
Here’s a taste of something quite magnificent. Peckham’s Imperial Daze have all the swagger and attitude of seasoned indie veterans and in their new single ‘Always Settling’ they have created a brilliant instant classic. It’s an insistent, roller-coaster of a ride, throbbing synths, louche studied vocals and a pulse racing drive that thunders on. Ranging …
Say Psych: Preview: Strange Waves IV, Manchester – 20.10.2018
Manchester promoters Strange Days and Now Wave have joined forces once more to offer a night of loosely psychedelic themed music across three venues in the city on 20th October. Strange Waves IV will be taking over Manchester Academy, The Union and Big Hands to bring an international line up to the city that is …