Bed Rugs – 8th Cloud (2014) review
Bed Rugs "8th Cloud" (Ample Play, 2014) Similar to what I wrote about a fantastic Kelley Stoltz single released earlier this year, one of the things I like...
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Whizz Kid – There’s Conjuring To Be Done (2014) review
Whizz Kid “There’s Conjuring To Be Done” (Bearsuit, 2014) Whizz Kid is another in the long line of Bearsuit’s international collaborations,...
Betrayers – Let the Good Times Die (2014) review
Betrayers - Let the Good Times Die (Perfect Master Records, 2014) http://thebetrayers.bandcamp.com/ Slipping under most radars Edmonton psych tinged garage rockers Betrayers might have released one of the...
The Backhomes – Talk b/w Backward Sunshine (2014) review
The Backhomes "Talk b/w Backward Sunshine" (Self-released, 2014) http://thebackhomesband.bandcamp.com/album/talk-b-w-backward-sunshine Some might say leaving a semi successful band like The Besnard Lakes and moving across the country might be...
Buffalo Killers – Heavy Reverie (2014) review
Buffalo Killers "Heavy Reverie" (Sun Pedal Recordings, 2014) Cincinnati based rock band Buffalo Killers recorded their 6th album “Heavy Reverie”. In 2014, after eight years, Buffalo Killers gone...
Backnee Horn – III (2012) review
Backnee Horn "III" (Self-released, 2012) Holy shit, Batman, what the hell is this? Two hours of brain-rattling hypnosis spread across three slabs of vinyl, all the way from...
Walrus – Glam Returns (2014) review
Walrus "Glam Returns" (Poncho Records & Out of Sound Records, 2014) http://ponchorecords.bandcamp.com/album/glam-returns Psychedelic pop so good you would expect these kids to be drinking the LSD straight from...
Quilt – Held in Splendor (2014) review
Quilt "Held in Splendor" (Mexican Summer, 2014) Quilt channels many historic psychedelic folk ghosts with their well written jangly harmony rich and fluid buttery soft melodies. It would...
The War on Drugs – ‘Lost in the Dream’ (2014)
I’m standing around the back hall after the El Ten Eleven show talking with a group of self proclaimed music people, and naturally the conversation turns to War...
Total Control – Henge Beat (2011) review
Total Control "Henge Beat" (Iron Lungs Records, 2011) https://ironlungpv.bandcamp.com/album/henge-beat-lp While this album has been out for a few years now I find myself constantly returning to it. A...