Cardiff based band The Keys release their first full length album Bitten By Wolves on 2nd May through See Monkey Do Monkey Recordings. Since receiving a copy in the post we have been playing it a lot – an awful lot. It is a record that cleverly mixes 60s inspired psych rock and crunchy guitars with some more modern style jangle pop and some tasty … Continue reading Introducing…The Keys
We meant to post about The Pierces a while ago, and were reminded when we received this new video for their track Glorious – a gothic glam pop-stomper according to Q. a It comes from new album You & I and you can stream a taste of their dark forces below from their Love You More EP. a Visit their MySpace here. Continue reading Glorious Video from The Pierces
Brontosaurus’ debut LP, Cold Comes To Claim, will be released this spring. This bombastic LP runs the gamut – from sweeping grandeur to math-induced freak-outs. Imagine if you will, two guys who came of age with prog and classical, then transposed that aesthetic into subdued, grainy garage pop. A US tour in support of the album will start this summer during which many arguments about … Continue reading Introducing…Brontosaurus
Fizzing garage rock from the album World War Fun through Nice People Records. a Download The Boom Bang – Tobacula mp3 (from World War Fun) Continue reading The Boom Bang’s Tobacula Video
DeepSeaGreen perform original music inspired by a broad range of rock and roots music, from the songsmiths and spirituals of the late 19th century through blues, surf, soul and psychedelia. They have been performing in and around London since forming in late 2008, and recently returned from Italy where they recorded Valsorda, a six track EP of new material. The rather excellent cover to the EP … Continue reading Introducing…DeepSeaGreen
Gardens are the latest in the long line of garage bands to come swaggering out of Detroit – and they don’t let the side down. Maze Time is the advance track from their forthcoming self-titled debut album and it is a cracker. While in some ways it feels like it could easily have been plucked from the halcyon days of 60s psychedelia with its bluesy … Continue reading Introducing…Gardens
Pink Frost are probably what you would call a shoegaze band, offering as they do, a nice line in reverb and swirling, shimmering guitar work. The Sun comes from their self-titled EP and an album is soon to be in the offing. Visit their Bandcamp page here where you can pick up the three track EP for free. Download Pink Frost – The Sun mp3 … Continue reading Introducing…Pink Frost
The Graceful Slicks make a perfect follow-on from today’s Night Beats post being the meandering jam (pun intended) in the Night Beat’s rumbling sonic sandwich. They are a relatively new band and hail from our own home town of Oxford. We received a cool looking demo CD in the post and having seen some nice words about them from our friend Ronan (who runs Oxford’s … Continue reading Introducing…The Graceful Slicks
Any number of bands cite 60’s Texas psych as an influence, but rarely does a group actually capture what made those bands special. Following their debut EP on Trouble In Mind (which we posted here), The Night Beats have expanded on the bedroom immediacy of their first recordings to create an LP that perfectly captures and modernizes the hallucinogenic and exhilaratingly demonic aura of bands like The … Continue reading New Single From The Night Beats
Sun Araw inhabit the swampier end of the psychedelic spectrum, often turning out lengthy, crawling atmospheric cuts that can stretch time and sound into entirely new shapes. New 7″ single Houston Abstros is made up of two six minute tracks, the B-side is a cover of Teenage Fanclub’s December and in typical style it has been bent and warped into a whole new blissed-out incarnation … Continue reading Sun Araw Cover Teenage Fanclub
The Mad Mackerel 