Psych
EP: TC&I – Great Aspirations
As the conveyor belt of life moves inexorably closer to the edge, it is only natural for one to reflect on one’s impact on the world and whether one has bequeathed anything lasting and meaningful to world. These heavy and sobering thoughts seem to imbue the new EP, “Great Aspirations” from TC&I, the collaboration between …
Playlist: Poisoned Electrick Head – Tourbus Treats
Poisoned Electrick Head (Mk 1) were together twelve years (1986 – 1998), and probably spent ten of them in tourbuses of various types (the band officially reformed in 2009 and are now actively gigging and releasing albums). As an eight-piece touring psychedelic outfit, the choice of listening was never going to be a simple affair, …
Track: Dead Meadow – Keep your Head, plus new album news
Keep your head is the first single to be taken from Dead Meadow’s new album, The Nothing They Need, out on Xemu Records on March 30th 2018. O)f the new album, the bands Steve Killie says “I think there is a touch of apocalyptic vibes to the new album especially with the cover art that …
See: Mien reveal new video for Black Habit, plus new album news
Taken from their forthcoming self-titled debut album on Rocket Recordings, psych-krautrock supergroup Mien have released a new video for the single Black Habit. The band, comprised of The Black Angel’s Alex Maas, The Horror’s Tom Furse, Elephant Stone’s Rishi Dhir and The Earlies’ John-Mark Lapham, are due to make their live debut at the Levitation …
Track: Whyte Horses – Empty Words
After scoring a first play on Lauren Laverne’s 6Music show, Mancunian psych-pop band Whyte Horses have now released the titled track ‘Empty Words’ from their forthcoming album as a new single. The album, a collection of sixteen stories about love and fear and all that lives between, is out on March 9th via CRC Records, …
See: Thick Syrup reveal new video for Heavy Syrup
Leeds (well at least partly) garage/psych rockers Heavy Syrup are about to released their debut album, iving In Leeds, out via Nottingham label Gringo Records (Hookworms, Sauna Youth, That Fucking Tank, Part Chimp). From it they’ve released a new video for the track Heavy Syrup, a heavy, driving slabl of garage psych thats full of …
See: Robyn Hitchcock releases new video for ‘Autumn Sunglasses’ plus UK tour dates
Prior to a UK tour comprising of two shows with a full live band, LA Squires, followed by an extensive string of solo acoustic shows around the country, Robyn Hitchcock releases a video for the song ‘Autumn Sunglasses’. Taken from last year’s self-titled album,and recorded in Nashville, it’s a slice of strings-driven dreamy psychedelia. The Ex-Soft Boy, …
Say Psych: Album Review: Reverb Conspiracy Volume 5
Rating: 9/10 Fuzz Club Records, the London based label with an unmatched knack for tapping into international waters to discover fresh sounds to add to their vast, hefty back-catalogue of countless album releases, split singles and live sessions. Acting as a crucial catalyst for the trans-national psych scene and its many surrounding remits, one of the …
Say Psych: Video Premiere: Dreamweapon – Monte da Virgem
Portugal’s Dreamweapon today announce that they will be releasing their new LP SOL on Fuzz Club Records on 16th February, to go with the announcement they have released the track ‘Monte da Virgem’ and BSM is honoured to provide you with the premiere of the video which accompanies the track. The band’s name comes from …
Album Review: King Gizzard and The Lizard Wizard – Polygondwanaland
God forbid I use this phrase – but the new King Gizzard album in execution is a happening. Believe me, I want to punch myself in the stomach when I wrote that. But it’s very much a statement that sums up exactly what the Australian band have created with this album. Their grandiose gesture of …