Here is another taste from Chad VanGaalen’s upcoming album Shrink Dust, out via Sub Pop on the 29th April. Listen to the surreally brilliant, campfire warble of Monster. Pre-order the record here. . Continue reading Chad VanGaalen – Monster
Divino Niño is an psych pop band who often mix in washed out reverb, world percussion, dreamy guitar riffs, and beautiful and lush vocal harmonies in the vein of Tame Impala and Thee Oh Sees. Check out three tracks from their new record below ranging from gently flickering campfire ballads to sinewy garage-psych and all undercut with a tinge of romantic optimism, even amongst the darker … Continue reading Divino Niño – Pool Jealousy
Positive Distractions Part II from Secret Colours will be out across all digital formats on the 29th April. The merged vinyl and cassette versions of Positive Distractions Part I and Part II will be available the same same day, April 29… that same week they will be performing at Austin Psych Fest. Here is Into You, a surprise single for the weekend. . Continue reading MM Shorts 540: Secret Colours
Chicago three-piece Varsity’s EP Thanks For Nothing is out on the 8th April via Jurassic Pop. It is a smorgasbord of styles with the five tracks flitting between BritPop and psych-rock via fuzzy garage pop and chiming synths. Take a listen to the appropriately titled New Wave here. . Continue reading Introducing >>> Varsity
The eastern influenced weirdness of What You Isn’t is the first track taken from the Grandfathers of modern psych Brian Jonestown Massacre’s forthcoming album Revelation, which is to be released on the 20th May. A double vinyl album, CD and special Record Store Day 12″ are scheduled and a full UK tour kicks off in July – dates below. . Tour Dates: 28 June – Concorde 2 … Continue reading Brian Jonestown Massacre – Revelation
Damon McMahon’s folk project Amen Dunes will soon release a new album, Love, on the Sacred Bones label in May. Having forsaken their usual approach of spontaneous improvisation and experimental recordings to spend around eighteen months in the studio working on songs that were originally never meant for public release, but which due to their personal nature offer a hitherto unseen intimacy and warmth to them. The first track … Continue reading Amen Dunes – Love
Wolf Solent’s video for Get On comes from their recently released Lifeboat EP, a triumph of laid back hypnotic grooves, spaced-out psych, crunchy distortion and fuzzed-up drones. This is one of the jauntier tracks… Buy the EP here. . . . . Continue reading Video: Wolf Solent – Get On
Seattle duo Iska Dhaaf have spent the past three years writing their debut album Even The Sun Will Burn. In many, many ways it is an album of contrasts – joyful and melancholic, subtle and brutal, uncompromising and welcoming it mixes punk, psychedelia, indie rock and even dream pop into a triumphant whole that manages to be much more than the mere sum of its parts. … Continue reading Introducing >>> Iska Dhaaf
Danish psych duo The Wands release their new single, The Dawn, on April 14th – the first from their upcoming debut album. The Dawn is a unashamed throwback to the classic 60s sound of psychedelia with subtle, contemporary touch-ups, and they do it with a degree of expertise and confidence that is mostly missing from many mining the same vein. Dig out the incense and stream the … Continue reading The Wands – The Dawn
Once again it is time to hurl in the lifesaving post of a Round Up, thrown boldly into the rising tide of cracking new tunes that are lapping against the very top of our inbox. Ten bands, thirteen tracks…dip in! . First up is the raw, take-no-prisoners rock’n’roll of Scary People’s tracks Crush The Bug and Chicago – pure, unadulterated foot-stomping noise. . Slow Club release their much … Continue reading Round Up Time
The Mad Mackerel 