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...
Reviews
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...
Thelightshines – Now the Sandman Sings (2014) review
Thelightshines - Now the Sandman Sings (The Great Pop Supplement, 2014) Listen: http://www.thelightshinesband.com/now-the-sandman-sings/ On first listen, the shivers that ran down my spine, the visions that danced across the...
Various Artists – ‘Psychedelic States: Florida In The 60s Vol. 4’ (2015)
Since 1997, the Gear Fab label, which is located in Littleton, Colorado and run by Roger Maglio, has been releasing compilation albums featuring insanely obscure bands from the...
I Fenomeni – Dodicesima Dimensione (2015) review/interview
I Fenomeni - Dodicesima Dimensione (Veals & Geeks, 2015) Italian outfit I Fenomeni have been making head-turning, head-swirling psychedelic beat music for a few years now, and their...