Vert:x
Say Psych: Interview: Meet The Label – The Weird Beard
Neo-Psychedelia has become the fastest growing musical trend, and the genre that everyone who wants to be associated with. With that in mind, it’s easy to forget that it is people who make all of this possible and get the music out into the public domain in the first place. Say Psych plans to address …
Say Psych: Album Review: Vert:X – Death to False Motorik
After the release of From Now to Now in 2017, Vert:X took a brief hiatus only to return in 2018 with a new line-up. Mainstay Neil Whitehead teamed up with Mat Handley of Pulselovers on electronics and Dave Millsop of XOND on guitar, thus ushering in a return to the noisier sound that Neil had …
Say Psych: 25 Essential Psych Albums 2016
This is the third year that I have done a list of ‘Essential Psych Albums’ (2014 here/ 2015 here), which has proved to be the most popular thing that I post here on Backseat Mafia. I love end of year lists because they give me a great chance to catch up on things I might …
Say Psych: Album Review, Magnetic North (Drone Rock Records)
Drone Rock Records is a Brighton-based label that has been steadily building up a reputation amongst Psych fans. A series of releases from the likes of Kill West, <><>)))), Space Spectrum and Psychic Lemon, all of them excellent, means that the label is now getting well-established bands knocking on the door asking about the possibility …