Archive for the Psych Category
Wooden Shjips “V” (Thrill Jockey)
Wooden Shjips, long-time leaders of the contemporary psychedelic movement, expand their sound with V, available on Limited Blue Colored Vinyl with full color artworked inner sleeve and free download card. On their fifth album the quartet of Ripley Johnson (Moon Duo), Omar Ahsanuddin, Dusty Jermier, and Nash Whalen augment their […]
Groundhogs “Split” (Akarma)
Repress! On the fourth album, Tony McPhee confronts another difficult subject: the introspective vision of the mind of a schizophrenic. The album begins decisively and angry, almost with a desire to violate and demoralize clean and lined buildings of the British blues. Another milestone of ’70s British rock. Original pasted […]
Vive la Void “Vive la Void” (Sacred Bones)
Vive la Void is the new solo project of Sanae Yamada, co-founder and keyboard player of Moon Duo. Yamada wrote and recorded the self-titled debut album over roughly a two-year period, during windows of downtime in Moon Duo’s substantial touring and recording schedule. The dense, shape-shifting atmospheres of the seven […]
El Polen “Cholo” (Buh)
uh Records present for the first time in vinyl format, the reissues of the two first and fundamental albums by El Polen, the legendary Peruvian band formed in the late 1960s by brothers Juan Luis and Raul Pereira. Two records highly sought by collectors round the world due to the […]
El Polen “Fuera De La Ciudad” (Buh)
Fuera De La Ciudad was recorded with all of the musicians at the same time in two short sessions at El Virrey studios; which said studio never believed El Polen’s LP would sell so they only released a limited edition of only one thousand copies. Three months later, there were […]
Taj Mahal Travellers “August 1974” (Aguirre)
Aguirre Records present a reissue of Taj Mahal Travellers’ August 1974, originally released in 1975. A monumental work by the Japanese experimental music ensemble. In April 1972 a group of Japanese musicians set off from Rotterdam in a Volkswagen van. As they crossed Europe and then made their way through […]
Spacemen 3 “Playing With Fire” (Superior Viaduct)
Spacemen 3 began assembling their third album, 1988’s Playing With Fire, at perhaps the freest, most confident point in their career. Recording began with the band road-tested and rugged, even amidst the functional volatility that famously motivated their course. The sessions’ first offering came in the form of “Revolution,” a […]
Five Day Week Straw People “Five Day Week Straw People” (Morgan Blue Town)
Listed as one of Record Collector’s 100 Greatest Psychedelic Records (nestling immediately below the Moody Blues In Search Of A Lost Chord !), this is an album that deserves a place in any discerning record collection.This album recorded the Five Day Week Straw People, relates the imagined typical weekend of […]
Spacemen 3 “Recurring” (Superior Viaduct)
1990’s Recurring, the fourth and final studio album by Spacemen 3, is often considered the introduction of two brilliant solo projects (Spectrum and Spiritualized) rather than the work of a functioning band. While Spacemen 3’s departing statement surely reveals a deep divide within the S3 camp—each side of the LP […]
International Harvester “Remains” (Silence)
Silence present a five-LP box set featuring International Harvester titled Remains. The box contains their debut album from 1968 Sov Gott Rose-Marie and Hemåt from 1969, along with three full bonus albums with live material dating from 1967-1969. It also includes a poster, lots of pictures, and a long interview […]
Various Artists “Brown Acid: The Sixth Trip” (Riding Easy)
Six volumes worth of licensed tracks released in just three years: doing the Dark Lord’s work isn’t an easy job, but somebody’s gotta do it, so here is Brown Acid – The Sixth Trip, with more lined up. The heads just can’t get enough obscure hard rock, heavy psych, and […]
Killer Boogie “Acid Cream” (Heavy Psych Sounds)
Limited edition color vinyl. Acid Cream marks the fuzzy comeback of Killer Boogie. Gabriele Fiori and Luigi Costanzo are joined by the new bassist Nicola Cosentino on this 11-track long trip. The new album is inspired by the crazy days of the late ’60s and the ’70s, with a pinch […]
Temple “Temple” (Mental Experience)
Includes insert with liners notes; Includes download card. Continuing with their reissue campaign of the Toby Robinson’s Pyramid label catalog, Mental Experience now present Temple’s self-titled release. Probably the most “rock” sounding of all the Pyramid titles, Temple were an ad-hoc outfit born out of several late-night sessions at Dierks […]
Wild Havana “Wild Havana” (Mental Experience)
Mental Experience present a reissue of Wild Havana’s self-titled album, originally released in 1977. Obscure Dutch private pressing of laid-back instrumental psychedelic/progressive sounds with jazz-funk-groove and abstract/experimental/Latin-indigenous touches. Stoned homemade atmosphere with treated/distorted electric and acoustic guitars, flute, electric piano, primitive drum machines/homemade electronics… Much in the vein of the […]
Chrissy Zebby Tembo & Ngozi Family “My Ancestors” (Mississippi)
Reissued many times before – this version has great remastered sound quality. A truly incredible psychedelic African rock n’ roll record. Blown out guitars, Black Sabbathesque heavy rhythms, garage rock sincere vocals. It’s all here. One time small pressing not to be missed. Old school “tip on” cover.
King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard “Gumboot Soup” (ATO)
King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard’s new album Gumboot Soup. Gumboot Soup follows February’s Flying Microtonal Banana, June’s Murder of the Universe, August’sSketches of Brunswick East, and, finally, November’s Polygondwanaland, for which the band shared the masters and tasked listeners with pressing the recordings themselves. In an interview with Consequence […]
Black Salvation “Uncertainty Is Bliss” (Relapse)
Uncertainty Is Bliss is the Relapse debut from German psychedelic, hard rock trio BLACK SALVATION. BLACK SALVATION (Featuring Uno Bruniusson formerly of In Solitude and Grave Pleasures and currently of Death Alley), challenge the listener to open wide the doors of perception and slowly drift away amongst their transcendental compositions […]
Bardo Pond “Volume 8” (Fire)
Brand new album from Philadelphia’s much loved neo-space rock stoner drone outfit. A euphoric transcendental journey to a mountain top nirvana, a psychedelic tapestry that slowly unwinds as they travel onwards into the inner mind. A 40-minute opus delivered from a hail of reverb soulfully caressed by a ceremonial flute, […]
Damnation of Adam Blessing “Damnation of Adam Blessing” (Svart)
Reissue of 1969 album by The Damnation Of Adam Blessing, led by charismatic vocalist Bill Constable (aka Adam Blessing). They were an extraordinary band, able to go head-to-head with their more illustrious counterparts. The sound is equal parts psychedelic rock, hard rock, garage and blues. This reissue preserves the original […]
Devil’s Anvil “Hard Rock From The Middle East” (Music on Vinyl)
Reissue ULTRA-RARE PSYCHEDELIC 1967 hard-rock album from US studio formation DEVIL’S ANVIL. Oriental (Turkish, Arab and Greek) tunes blown to pieces by PSYCH EFFECTS and FUZZ. Produced by Felix Pappalardi.
Cem Karaca “Parka” (Pharaway Sounds)
Pharaway Sounds present Turkish legend Cem Karaca’s fourth album Parka, originally released in 1977. Parka is a compilation of singles released in Turkey between 1969 and 1976, featuring Dervişan, Kardaşlar, Apaşlar, and Moğollar. You can expect the usual dose of powerful and deep vocals by Karaca backed by great Anatolian […]
Heldon “Standby” (Souffle Continu)
Souffle Continu Records present a reissue of Heldon’s Stand By, originally released in 1979. Richard Pinhas began by absorbing Jimi Hendrix as an adolescent, leaving that behind at the beginning of the 1970s, after having heard what Miles Davis and Herbie Hancock were doing with synthesizers, and then discovering the […]
Heldon “Heldon. 6. Interface” (Souffle Continu)
Souffle Continu Records present a reissue of Heldon’s Heldon . 6 . Interface, originally released in 1977. The idea in the mind of Richard Pinhas, the driving force behind Heldon, was to produce music “as cold as a huge block of ice” a vertiginous experience, of course influenced by the […]
Plastic Cloud “Plastic Cloud” (Lion Productions)
REISSUED!!! PLASTIC CLOUD recorded, quite simply, one of the greatest underground psychedelic albums ever made: a swirl of gossamer vocals and Tolkien references, swathed in the some of the most relentless fuzz guitar you will ever hear. There is no point singling out a specific track, they are al excellent—one […]