Category: psychedelic pop
Grounders – Crown Land
I miss the times when all my wife and I seemed to do was go and see Mercury Rev. It was during their most creative patch, circa ‘Deserter Songs’, and they seemed destined to visit Irish shores every few months. […]
The Soundcarriers – Last Broadcast
Speaking of Stereolab and more especially their earlier selves here is Nottingham’s the Soundcarriers with an altogether fine blast of krautrock. Given its title it may also have drawn on those other purveyors of dense electronic textures Broadcast. What’s not […]
Nicely Nicely – 49 Cigars
It sounds a good bit like ‘Tomorrow Never Knows’ but when you’re looking for inspiration there aren’t many better options out there. It might surprise you that ’49 Cigars’ comes from a b-side on an obscure 1982 single from Londoner […]
Tame Impala – Apocalypse Dreams
Believe it or not I’m often thrown off the scent by band names that don’t make sense to me. For this crazy reason I’m far more predisposed to clicking on a song by a group with a simple moniker. So […]
Assemble Head In Sunburst Sound – Kolob Canyon
With a name like that you’d half expect some variation on the Brian Jonestown Massacre and these bay area psychedelia rendering folks don’t disappoint. The slick meandering ‘Kolob Canyon’ is taken from Assemble Head In Sunburst Sound’s third LP ‘When […]
Cheval Sombre – Little Bit Of Heaven
Oh what a blissful set of lazer guided melodies on this one. Not that we should be too surprised given the personnel involved. Sombre recorded his self-titled LP in New York with guiding interjections from Sonic Boom (Spacemen 3, Spectrum), […]
The Lovetones – Journeyman
You must have heard of the Brian Jonestown Massacre, that twisted psychedelic pop group that world cruelly continues to shun? Well here is one of their former guitarists and his band the Lovetones. The Lovetones have been about since the […]
I Can Chase Dragons! – Cuantas Caras
Somewhat like a primeval El Guincho this is nothing less than the perfect distillation of tropical electronica. The words are rendered meaningless for the non-Spanish speaking amongst us but it matters not a jot because ‘Cuantas Caras’ is all about […]