Mountain Movers – Death Magic (2015) review
Mountain Movers - Death Magic (Safety Meeting Records, 2015) The Mountain Movers aren’t a new band, but one can be forgiven if they make that mistake. It’s been...
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Lovebyrd – Lovebyrd (2015) review
Lovebyrd - Lovebyrd (Hairy Records, 2015) Listen: http://lovebyrd.bandcamp.com/ I don’t know where Lovebyrd has been hiding, but their debut album, the self-titled Lovebyrd, is being released by Hairy Records...
Thelightshines – Before the Sandman Sung (2015) review
Thelightshines - Before the Sandman Sung (2015) Anyone who’s ever chemically laced the night knows what it’s like when the walls stop moving, the colours become less brilliant,...
Kurt Vile – ‘b’lieve i’m goin down…’ (2015)
'B’lieve I’m Goin’ Down' exists, and in the same breath it doesn’t. Never have I had the pleasure of hearing a more etherial album laced with intoxicating imagery...
Golden Animals – Free Your Mind and Win a Pony (2008) review
Golden Animals - Free Your Mind and Win a Pony (2008) Free Your Mind And Win A Pony by Golden Animals, a power-pop duo who seem determined to...
The Smoking Trees – TST (2015) review
The Smoking Trees - TST (Ample Play/Burger Records, 2015) Listen: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hlNJ1NVt3eo With TST, The Smoking Trees have delivered a laid back breezy bit of relaxed sunshine pop, all laced...
Minami Deutsch – ‘Minami Deutsch’ (2015)
This Japanese duo feature strong motorific beats a la Can and Neu! which propel their mostly instrumental psych into krautrock territory. Fuzzy, speaker-shredding guitars and bubbling electronics highlight...
Various Artists – ‘Stay Holy: Sonic Attack at Liverpool Psych Fest’ (2015)
Let me try to sort this out: the wild and crazy folks over at Cardinal Fuzz hosted their own Sonic Attack Stage at this year’s Liverpool International Festival...
Various Artists – Tomato Sauce Lasers, Sausage Lassos (2015) review
Various Artists - Tomato Sauce Lasers, Sausage Lassos (Bearsuit Records, 2015) Listen: https://bearsuitrecords.bandcamp.com/album/v-a-tomato-sauce-lasers-sausage-lassos Those wonderfully wacky folks at Bearsuit have compiled another cross pollination of international tomfoolery, glitch click...
The Zipps – Ever Stoned & Live (2015) review
The Zipps - Ever Stoned & Live (Record Collector Rare Record Club, 2015) Listen: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=49zRGT3ItXs Recorded for posterity by the group's super-fan Ron de Bruijn - at that time...