Louisville-based psychedelic/experimental duo Wax Fang’s third standalone single of 2013 will be Hearts Are Made For Beating, out on the 5th November. It is like a classic college rock song that has been left out in the sun too long and has gradually warped and stretched, metamorphosing into something that is slightly off-kilter, a little bit alien even. Whatever it is, it is out of sync … Continue reading New Single From Wax Fang
We’re way late on this one, but having hit a (rich) psych-pop vein earlier, we’re now loving the 60s pastoral, jangly psychedelia of Candy Flip the debut 7″ single by another New York outfit, Spires. It is backed by the equally good, and vintage sounding, Comic Book. Fire up a fat one and listen below. Continue reading Spires – Candy Flip 7″
Zula are a four-piece psych pop band from Brooklyn. Their debut LP, This Hopeful, is currently streaming on SPIN, and gets an official release tomorrow (29th) on Inflated Records. Listen to the first single from the album, the irresistible Twin Loss, a perfect mix of sunshine, hypnotics, restlessness, and weaving, sinewy melody. Continue reading MM Shorts 465: Zula
There are plenty who will find far better words than I to mourn the passing of Lou Reed. Suffice to say he soundtracked much of my teenage years and fuelled many bedroom dreams of partying with NY’s avant-garde finest and haughty, heroin fuelled ice maidens. Only a few weeks ago I splashed some download credits on exploring his later back catalogue of solo albums like … Continue reading RIP Lou Reed
Sharing a collective love for David Bowie, Paul Simon, Talking Heads, Animal Collective and Edward Sharpe to name a few, Austin TX six-piece, Calliope Musicals are proud pedlars of psychedelic party folk, and Clouds On Fire is their new offering. A cacophony of noise designed to move and shake the innocent and the not-so-much, the poppy rush of the swoonsome Jeanie O is an engaging nod to the … Continue reading Introducing >>> Calliope Musicals
Top notch videos to round off, and round up, the working week from Beach Fossils (trippy lo-fi), Such Hounds (ramshackle, punky Americana), Dark Bells (ethereal psychedelia), and The Head And The Heart (indie folk). . . . . Continue reading Videos of the Day: Beach Fossils || Such Hounds || Dark Bells || The Head And The Heart
Brisbane quartet Blank Realm will return with a new album, Grassed Inn, in January next year. It follows on from one of our favourite recent releases Go Easy, which we posted a number of tracks from earlier in the year. The new record is catchier, if lyrically darker, and our taster track Falling Down The Stairs has certainly veered away somewhat from the melancholy churn … Continue reading Blank Realm Announce New Album
Almost exactly a year ago, we introduced Leeds based psych-rock band Formes as a band to watch. Now a three-piece, they are gearing up for the release of new tune Inside I’ve Flown, which certainly makes good on that early promise – it would appear that the intervening 12 months have not been wasted. It is available as a free download until its official release … Continue reading New From Formes
Having recently waxed lyrical about Sleepy Sun’s 7″ single of gargantuan, heavy, garage psych 11.32, which saw a release last week, we now have a stream of the equally good, if more melodic and less pulverising b-side, The Lane. Have a listen below. Buy the single here. Continue reading Stream Sleepy Sun’s The Lane
The songs we’ve heard so far from the new Wooden Shjips long player Back To Land have been uniformly excellent. Our favourite grizzly psych-rockers have now offered up the title track for streaming – dive in below. Pre-order the album here (out 11th November). See them live: Mon Dec 9 Brighton Audio Tue Dec 10 London Scala w/ kandodo Wed Dec 11 Leeds Brudenell Social … Continue reading MM Shorts 462: Wooden Shjips
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