psychedelic
Say Pstch: Live – Moon Duo, The Harley, Sheffield, 02.09.14
This is the third time I have seen Moon Duo live. The previous two times were under quite different circumstances, but both in their own way were exceptional. I first saw them at the Brudenell Social Club in Leeds when Sanae had some really serious technical problems with her keyboards, to the extent that it …
Psych Insight: Live, Elephant Stone, Wharf Chambers, Leeds, 10/06/14.
I always seem to be playing catch up with Elephant Stone. I missed their live gig at The Leeds Cockpit, in support of Black Angels because of a queue on the motorway, and I didn’t really get into their eponymously titled 2013 album until this year. Now that I have I think it’s one of …
Not Forgotten: Poisoned Electrick Head…Take Your Protein Pills!
If you will, allow me to take you back to Runcorn in 1990. Not somewhere many people would want to go back to voluntarily, I’ll grant you. Not only that, I would specifically like to take you to Foxy’s night club, a small nondescript club, where disco pop never stopped (until maybe 1am). What possible …
Say Psych: Album Review – Sky Is Hell Black by Has A Shadow (Captcha Records/ Fuzz Club Records)
In the past musical trends have tended to be broadly geographical: the Merseybeat scene, West Coast Flower Power, German Krautrock, NY Punk, Coventry’s Two Tone, Madchester – I could go on. One of the amazing things about the current psychedelic scene, however, is that it is truly global. Facilitated by social networking and the digital …
Psych Insight: Album Review: Wooden Shjips – Back to Land
There have been few new albums out this year that I have been eagerly awaiting more than the latest Wooden Shjips album, Back to Land. The problem with this is that this can mean that I will almost certainly be disappointed with the outcome, so high are my expectations. When I was thinking about this …
Meet: It’s All About A Feeling…A Conversation with White Hills’ Dave W
I can remember it rather clearly. I was perusing my favorite blogs back in March -when we were all still aglow from My Bloody Valentine’s triumphant return after two decades of knob turning and hand wringing- when I came across an article on 1537 about a band called White Hills. Mr. 1537 couldn’t have been …
Meet: From Florence With Love…The Psych-Pop Sounds of The Vickers
Once in a while you have to look beyond what your know to find that next great album. Sometimes in order to expand your mind you have to say the hell with what you do know and open that noggin of yours and let something you don’t know soak in. Around May of this year …