Welsh psych
TRACK: Tacsidermi – ‘Gwlr’: a glide of blurry Welsh psych
GWENLLIAN ANTHONY, bassist, keys wizard and more with Carmarthen’s award-winning indie outfit Adwaith has, on and off, over the past few years, been jamming and writing with Matthew Kilgariff, who’s been touring member of Gwenllian’s home band, a little creative side gig; but as 2020 stuck out its viral tongue and thumbed its nose at …
TRACK: Melin Melyn – ‘Rebecca’: announcing Cymru’s latest quirk-psych crackers
GORKY’S. (There’s never any escaping Gorky’s, and how great they are, let’s face it. If you were really lucky, you actually could’ve seen them at the Hacienda.) Meilyr Jones. Gulp. El Goodo. The river of brilliant and wayward Welsh quirky, psych-inflected bands floweth ever on; and rounding this bend in our canoe, we come across …
ALBUM REVIEW: Keys – ‘Home Schooling’: lo-fi Welsh powerpop gems
COMING at you out of the Welsh capital Cardiff, Keys are a quintet who, we can glean from their photograph, love a pair of shades. A listen to their new digital-only release Home Schooling, which is out on August 21st, will also show that behind those tinted lenses there are ten eyes with an absolute …
ALBUM REVIEW: El Goodo – ‘Zombie’: at the corner of Haight and (Mountain Ash)bury
SOMEWHERE in the Welsh village of Resolven, deep in the Vale of Neath, there is a tap. As with all such fonts, miles of pipes lead the one end to the other, far up above in the Welsh hills, to a reservoir. As you approach that source, in your mind’s eye, you notice the visuals …
SEE: El Goodo – ‘Things Turn Around’: how to turn a rubbish day into 6/8 beauty
IT’S a lovely little thing, the world of West Wales’ El Goodo. Things might well be a bit pants, they really might, but they have the tools to fashion the fag end of being into a little slice of Alex Chiltonesque, piano-led, post-psych brilliance. The lyrics are downcast and bleak, but that melody and boy, …