Tag Psych
It always makes an album just a little more intriguing when outlets, reviewers and even record companies fail to agree on the actual musical style of a band. And these descriptions can vary quite a lot. Case in point is… Continue Reading →
Harvestman is the project of Steve von Till, the long-standing member of Neurosis. The pretext behind these “instrumental psychedelic reveries” is an otherworldliness born of names like Flying Saucer Attack, Fairport Convention, Tangerine Dream, Bert Jansch, Steeleye Span and Hawkwind…. Continue Reading →
Dear reader, kindly indulge me as I take you back to the days of my youth. It’s the eighties, and whilst the airwaves were full of Stock, Aitken and Waterman, and the Rave and Indie scene were soon to give… Continue Reading →
As I listen to The Space, I chastise myself for a streak of ridiculous disappointment. I am heading off to Desertfest this week to redeem a ticket I bought in 2020. One of the bands I was looking forward to… Continue Reading →
Okay, I’ll get it out of the way right now and not refer to it later in the review, well, at least not beyond the first paragraph if I can at all avoid it. I’ve bloody well enjoyed the music… Continue Reading →
The message behind all this is blunt and harsh. In their sleeve artwork, Somalgia go to great pains to represent their bleak and dystopian vision. I read such slogans as “Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored”…. Continue Reading →
Never has a label been more apt for a band. Decasia’s debut is HEAVY PSYCH baby from the get go. As soon as lion rumbles out of my speakers it whirls around as if whipped by the winds of the Sahara cloaked… Continue Reading →
If you’ve ever had the dubious pleasure of bumping into me, whilst my age is apparent, what is not immediately obvious is that my education was quite posh, well, as posh as you could manage living in Manchester in the… Continue Reading →
Like so many bands, the pandemic has put restrictions on playing live and the way new material is put together. Washington psyche rockers, Kadabra have overcome this and launched their debut offering “Ultra” and take the listener to somewhere arguably… Continue Reading →
Crushing, heavy stoner which “delivers the perfect soundtrack for a road trip in the sun” is what’s offered here from Solar Mantra. It remains to be seen what is sunny about this work, but the artwork suggests that we’re in… Continue Reading →
This is heady stuff and music that necessitates the lighting of incense to smother the air with fragrance and thick cloying plumes of smoke. Sol Kia are comprised of two Belgian ritualists Stephane Van Tricht who is responsible for vocals… Continue Reading →
I could have sworn I had tackled Dutch ‘whisperers’ Fluisteraars in the past review wise but realised I had been getting them muddled up with countrymen Fluisterwoud who actually split up in 2009. An easy mistake I guess but one… Continue Reading →