Diagonal – ‘Diagonal’ (2021)
This Chicago quintet’s debut full length follows on from several singles (included here) that have seen their post-punk sound morph into a more psychedelic, krautrock-influenced groove. ‘Anticipation’ slides...
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Dreamweapon – ‘Rites Of Lunacy’ (2021)
The prolific psychedelic improvisational band from Portugal (this was just one of four albums originally self-released last year alone), 'Rites Of Lunacy' is their self-confessed “lost album”, recorded...
Adam Stone Dead Sea Apes Black Tempest – ‘Dataland’ (2021)
As the world continues to dig itself out of the increasingly oppressive doldrums brought on by the COVID-19 virus, this trio of favourites collaborated over the internet to...
Various Artists – ‘Psychedelic States: The Dakotas In The ’60s’
For the past twenty-odd years, the Gear Fab label has been making our lives brighter by reprising cool and obscure albums from the late sixties and early seventies....
The Chemistry Set – ‘Paint Me A Dream’ / ‘The Witch’ (2021)
Be sure to circle January 29th in your datebook, because that is the day the Chemistry Set unveils a brand new single. Active since the late eighties, the...
From The Vault: Ultimate Spinach – ‘Behold & See’ (1968)
Obviously the hit from this album is 'Mind Flowers' by the wasted Ultimate Spinach, a drug bathed band from Boston who came into being in 1967, at the...
JAZZ CORNER Presents: Bill Evans – ‘Live At Ronnie Scott’s’ (2020)
Recorded back in 1968, smack dab in the middle of the psychedelic 60’s 'Live At Ronnie Scott's' was derived from the personal recordings of drummer Jack DeJohnette, where...
Various Artists – ‘Sumer Is Icumen In: The Pagan Sound of British & Irish Folk 1966-1975’
They do love their divinity lessons. “We were into nasty things happening in nasty places, deep in the dark green forest,” recalls David Costa of Trees, the cult...
Lucinda Williams – ‘Southern Soul: From Memphis to Muscle Shoals & More’ (2020)
Another from the Lu’s Jukebox series, Episode 2, where Lucinda Williams dishes out heaping helpings of sumptuous numbers from Memphis to Muscle Shoals and beyond, all from the...
The Vanishing Lines – ‘No Replacement Found’ (2020)
Ian Smith created the Vanishing Lines with assistance from Telescopes frontman Stephen Lawrie and Jake Taylor. Their debut album ebbs and flows between ambient noise, industrial atmospherics, and...