Category: psychedelic
Death Valley Sleepers – Seaside
I haven’t felt like this since thirteen tales from urban bohemia or at least the last BJM song that tickled my lobes. But rather than being an unruly lot of elegant wasters from down Portland way Death Valley Sleepers turns […]
Black Hand Laser Band – The Witching Hour
Ok, this is more than a little odd (I’ll stop short of saying it is scary even if it is the scariest night of the year); a band in 2009 without a website or a myspace page. Yep, despite at […]
Spiritualized – All Of My Tears
One of the consequences of this blogging lark is that I don’t really get to hear whole albums anymore. Well, not in the traditional way anyway where the ferocious unwrapping of cellophane was only matched by the like-lightning drop into […]
Salako – Look Left
Hull was recently voted the worst city to live in the U.K. but hey who cares when the Premiership is coming to your doorstep in a matter of weeks. I almost went to University there actually, lucky escape you might […]
Immovable Objects – Sheen
Lately my patience for taking in an album in a single sitting has faltered but I still found it impossible to turn away from Immovable Objects’ ‘Hoping It Stays Just This Broken’. We don’t know a lot about Matt Gagin […]
The Three 4 Tens – Everyday
Anyone remember the sixtiestastic glee of Cosmic Rough Riders? Here was Scottish troupe who deserved so much more, capable of producing perfect records full of splendid melodies. But then, I guess it’s happened before with the entirely great yet ultimately […]
World Of Twist – She's A Rainbow
Tony Ogden who was the lead singer of World of Twist tragically died in July of 2006. His band who were once courted by Creation Records were critical darlings but failed to turn their ecstatic live performances into large volume […]
The Black Angels – Bad Vibrations
Austin’s the Black Angels were summoned from the dogged influence of the Velvet Underground. So much so that they called themselves after a song from ‘…And Nico’ and have employed a series of vintage instruments to recreate the spirit of […]