Category: Track Review
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Featured Artist – Helicon
Somewhere back in July, Purple Heart Parade connected me with Helicon and I was immediately smitten with these self-proclaimed, “Doom-mongering behemoths of Psychedelic Rock formed in East Kilbride / Glasgow”. These particular behemoths must have come from the cheerier side of the doom-mongering clan, because when I listen to the euphonious sounds they shape, I…
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Formes – ‘Dysphoria Part 1’
“Dysphoria (from Greek: δύσφορος (dysphoros), δυσ-, difficult, and φέρειν, to bear) is a profound state of unease or dissatisfaction.” Wiki. I’m not sure if that makes me unhinged or enlightened, because this album had the polar opposite effect on me! When Formes initially posted an image of their debut LP cover, I jokingly commented that the face on…
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Then Comes Silence – ‘Spinning Faster’
‘Spinning Faster’ is the debut single from the up-coming Then Comes Silence III ‘Nyctophilian’ LP, due to be released on Friday 13th March 2015 on the Swedish Novoton Indie Label. Then Comes Silence are a Psyche/Goth 4 piece from Stockholm originally formed in 2012. I had noticed a few months back that The Janitors were playing…
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Featured Artist – Centralstödet
I have those good people at Sky Lantern Records to thank for introducing me to the aural phenomena that is Centralstödet. As an already confirmed devotee of Kikagaku Moyo, Sky Lantern’s release of Mammatus Clouds earlier this year brought me the added bonus that has been the music of Tolchock and Centralstödet. Centralstödet are the…
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The Black Angels / Sonic Jesus – Fuzz Club Split Single No 5
The Black Angels and Sonic Jesus Split Single, I’m just going to savour saying that again, The Black Angels and Sonic Jesus Split Single… A proverbial beatific match made in Fuzz Club heaven. I confess to having been a bit of late-comer to The Black Angels, but when they appeared on my radar in December…
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Jet Plane – ‘Loud to Sleep’
For me, the delight in writing a review lies essentially in the attempt to convey through words, the emotive palette of colours conjured by the music I have been listening to for the past few days. In the case of ‘Loud to Sleep’ by Jet Plane, the words languid and melancholy immediately sprang to mind.…
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GreenFuzz – ‘This Is An EP’
GreenFuzz label themselves as a “Macedonian garage-punk-psychedelic-pop-noise band, formed in 2010”. What this trio sound like on their debut 3 track released for PMG Recordings, ‘This Is An Ep’, is exactly what it says on label. What it doesn’t say on the label is how immediately and infectiously hooked you will be with these tracks. Jana’s…
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Featured Artist – Tolchock
Somewhere back in September, Sky Lantern Records posted a piece on the Japanese ‘Spacy Drone Neo Psychedelic duo’ Tolchock, and on first listen I was immediately hooked. The 3 track digital album, ‘After Fog Open’ by Taku Idemoto and Shoko Yoshida became a constant companion. ‘After Fog Open’ kicks off with the 19 minute sprawling…
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JIBÓIA – ‘Badlav’
One of the very few things I was hugely disappointed with at Liverpool International Festival of Psychedelia, was the three stage set-up which pretty much guaranteed that you would miss a dozen or so bands over the two days. Sadly for me, Jibóia became one of those casualties as I had already decided I wanted…
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Singapore Sling – ‘The Tower Of Foronicity’
‘The Tower Of Foronicity’ is Henrik Björnsson’s latest Long Player and follow up to the 2011 release ‘Never Forever’. Henrik has in the past described Singapore Sling’s sound as “dance to my dropping tears”, it comes as no surprise then that on ‘The Tower Of Foronicity’, once more the chiaroscuro has been liberally applied. Singapore…