Dream – Get Dreamy (1967) review
Dream “Get Dreamy” (Shadoks, 2013) Dream was a short lived Norwegian psychedelic pop band featuring legendary guitarist Terje Rypdal. They recorded their lone album for Polydor in 1967,...
Jeff Penczak
Dead Sea Apes / Black Tempest – ‘Sun Behind The Sun’ (2013)
This collaboration between the Manchester instrumental trio Dead Sea Apes and Stephen Bradbury (aka Black Tempest) plays to both of their strengths in creating an intoxicating instrumental space...
Quttinirpaaq – ‘No Visitors’ (2013)
Austin’s aural equivalent of The Texas Chainsaw Massacre return from a four year absence with another mesmerizing collection of pants-shitting freakouts that stalk around the room like Skinny...
The Lone Crows – The Lone Crows (2013) review
The Lone Crows "The Lone Crows" (World In Sound, 2013) Debut album from Minneapolis quartet offers heavy metal thunder via nimble-fingered riffage, a tight rhythm section, and confident,...
Bloody Knives – Death EP (2013) review
Bloody Knives “Death” EP (Saint Marie, 2013) A Ramones-styled six tracks in about 10 minutes, these buzz saw buzz killers (no pun intended) drop in, kick ass, take...
Jikan Ga Nai – Plenty Time EP (2013) review
Jikan Ga Nai “Plenty Time EP” (Bearsuit Records, 2013) “Plenty Time” is the debut EP from this ironically-named Scottish/French duo (“Jikan Ga Nai” is Japanese for “There’s not...
The Janitors – ‘Drone Head’ (2013)
Cardinal Fuzz combines this Swedish psych duo’s “The Worker Drone Queen” and award-winning (“Best EP of 2012”) “Head Honcho” EPs into a collectible double gatefold LP on white...
Wind – Sleep (2012) review
Wind – “Sleep” EP (Jansen, 2012) “Sleep” consists of two lengthy psychedelic tracks from this Norwegian trio who seamlessly blend, psych, metal, and jazz with Eastern flavourings. Their...
Bushman’s Revenge – Electric Komle: Live! (2013) review
Bushman's Revenge - Electric Komle: Live! (Rune Grammofon, 2013) Marrying a motorific, driving rhythm section to angular, Townshendian guitar pyrotechnics, this Norwegian jazz/rock hybrid pulls out all the...
Tame Impala – Lonerism (2012) review
Tame Impala “Lonerism” (Modular, 2012) Following up his Album of The Year-winning debut Innerspeaker, Perth multi-instrumentalist Kevin Parker went for a more accessible, poppier sound on Lonerism. The...