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See: Flyying Colours release new video for ‘Big Mess’
Australian four piece Flyying Colours have released a video for their new single ‘\Big Mess’ which comes ahead of the release of their new album ‘Fantasy Country’ out Summer 2020 released via Club AC30 and Poison City Records. Of the track, the band say “Big Mess was one of the first tracks written for the …
Track: Nite Fields – Not your time, plus album news
A lot has changed since the release of Nite Fields 2015 debut album Depersonalisation album, principally songwriter and protagonist Danny Venzin trading in Brisbane, Australia for Moscow, Russia and making Nite Fields less of a band and more of a solo project. The result is a new album ‘A Voyeur Makes No Mark’, digitally and …
Say Psych: EP Review: Purple Heart Parade – Desolation Angel
Manchester’s Purple Heart Parade recently released their third EP Desolation Angel through premiere post-rock ambassadors Club AC30. Following from last years lauded Lonestar EP, Desolation Angel takes the bands expansive and textured sound to new heights. Once again, the band recorded at Perry Vale Studios with Pat Collier (The Jesus and Mary Chain, X-Ray Spex) …
Say Psych: Album Review: Firefriend – Avalanche
Hailing from Sao Paulo, Brazil, Firefriend are Julia Grassetti (bass and vocals), Caca Amaral (drums) and Yury Hermuche (guitar and vocals). They are part of the underground resistance and in their latest LP Avalanche, have created their magnum opus.; an aural documentation of the nihilistic storm that is part of living in the 21st Century. …
Live Review: Underground Lovers/The Lovetones, The Corner Hotel, Melbourne
There is something special about seeing a band play in their hometown. You just know the audience will be filled with family and friends and there is a special frisson in the air. Indeed, rather appropriately, lots of love pouring all over the place; in the venue, on stage, even after the gig when members …
Track: Varanasi (fka Japan Suicide) – Rosemary’s Baby
After ten years under the moniker Japan Suicide, all of the members of the band have decided to cease producing music under this name and have reformed as Veranasi. It’s not just about a name change: it is a change of approach to their music highlighted by a decision to now sing exclusively in their …
Album Review: Local Authority – Negative Space
What was Valley Heat Records is now 4000 Records, but what remains is the singular dedication to the local Brisbane music scene and an obsession with the cassette. And there is no better way to launch this new face than the debut album from Local Authority, ‘Negative Space’. Local Authority is the product of Jacque …
Say Psych: EP Review: Black Doldrums – She Divine
Black Doldrums, the lauded London-based power-duo, have recently released their new EP She Divine on Club AC30. Known for delivering layered echo-drenched guitar with heavy, relentless drums, Black Doldrums have created transient and euphoric dark psychedelia and they’ve once again captured their raw, untamed energy with the help of producer Pat Collier at Perry Vale Studios …
Live: Ride, Enmore Theatre, Sydney, 6 September 2019
It’s a spectacular thing to see a band pick up from where they were twenty seven years ago in the same venue with a seamless evolution and imbued with the same spine tingling passion and verve. Ride were in top form: age had not wearied them and new material fused magnificently with old. And they …
Say Psych: Premiere: Rev Rev Rev – One Illusion Is Very Much Like Another
Following a recent trip to the US for a run of shows at SXSW and the announcement that they’d signed to London-based label Fuzz Club, Italy’s finest shoegazing noise-rockers Rev Rev Rev are now gearing up to release their highly-anticipated third album, Kykeon and BSM brings you the premiere of their new track ‘One Illusion …