Psicomagia – ‘Psicomagia’ (2013)
Oh my, oh my! What a scorcher of an album this San Diegan bunch has concocted for us! Psicomagia's debut - pronounced "seek-oh-mah-hee-yah", just to get that out...
Reviews
Iron Butterfly – Heavy (1968) review
Iron Butterfly "Heavy" (Atco Records, 1968) Bred in San Diego, California, Iron Butterfly spent more than a year paying their dues on the local live circuit prior to...
Big Brother & the Holding Company “Live at Carousel Ballroom” (1968) review
Big Brother & the Holding Company "Live at Carousel Ballroom" (Music On Vinyl, 1968/2013) The first thing that struck me about this live recording was that I thought...
Various Artists – Afrobeat Airways 2: Return Flight To Ghana 1974-1983” (2013) review
Various Artists “Afrobeat Airways 2: Return Flight To Ghana 1974-1983” (CD/2xLP on Analog Africa, 2013) As the title indicates, this marks a return to the West African nation...
Arborea interview
The fifth album of Maine duo arrived as a fresh air to the modern folk rock scene. Album connects artist's views of life with melancholic sound. Buck and...
Mater Dronic – Mundo Espectro (2013) review
Mater Dronic “Mundo Espectro” (Discos Juana, 2013) Exquisitely packaged, limited edition (200) double-vinyl reissue of the debut psych monster from these Spanish phenoms, boasting the incredible mind-melting...
Jacco Gardner – Cabinet Of Curiosities (2013) review
Jacco Gardner "Cabinet Of Curiosities" (Trouble In Mind, 2013) When ‘Clear The Air’ was first released on seven inch single by Spain’s Action Weekend label a year or...
Morgen – ‘Morgen’ (1969)
Although "Morgen" has often been called the greatest psychedelic album few people have actually heard, the level of its visibility has rapidly been rising these past several years....
Teeth Of The Sea – Master (2013) review
Teeth Of The Sea “Master” (Rocket Recordings, 2013) Beat-driven, electronic techno mayhem abounds on Teeth of The Sea’s third album, from the motoric drumming and gristly, throbbing basslines...
Stay – Mersey Dream 7′ EP (2013) review
Stay "Mersey Dream 7' EP" (Fruits de Mer Records, 2013) Of the three covers Barcelona’s Stay undertakes on this four-song EP, they go from the extreme of interpreting...