Light in The Attic Records is the bar none the best re-issue label out today. Their latest reissue is a little treasure known as Honey Ltd . Lee Hazlewood‘s Detroit based 1960s girl group music has been remastered for our listen pleasures. The album's standout track, Silk N' Honey is a smooth listening track, that will transport you back to the 60s. Make sure you have this blasting from your speakers when you are heading to your local burger joint and drive-in movie. Check Silk N' Honey below, and read up on Honey Ltd.'s interesting story [ here [...]
GDaddie - Live Well And Prosper Groovy beatmaker GDaddie just dropped his new song Live Well And Prosper . A psyched funk/pop danceable monster with all the beats and synths ready to tear down the walls that separates ’90s acid pop with todays electronic music. Uptempo and uplifted tunes to make your body shakin’. Follow GDaddie here if you wanna learn more about his upcoming LP.
'Scuse me for possibly being a little bit fashionably late for the party, but I got violently ill at the weekend and, well, some things (like being violently ill*) are more important than blogging. I've been rather enamoured of late by the new Ace Records Françoise Hardy compilation. which brings together her English language output between 1968 and 1972, a period when she worked a lot with Tommy Brown and Micky Jones (who also worked with Sylvie ; and then as Johnny 's backing [...]
A pounding bass drum and a cyclical guitar riff slip into a swaying flute rhythm before exploding into a whirl of electricity and an explosive chorus. Calm, dynamic and controlled: thus does “Mastranzas de Noches,” a psychedelic garage-folk adaptation of a classic Pablo Neruda poem, manage to provide one of the most memorable opening hooks of any psychedelic record to emerge from Latin America. This 1971 debut by Chile's Congreso is one of those rare, imperfect albums that somehow manages to hit a certain chord despite the noticeable flaws. A beautiful mix of jangling folk rock, cordillera accents and jazz [...]
The world's greatest reissue label continues to unearth unreal lost gems, this time in the form of the first ever reissue of the amazing complete recordings from Lee Hazlewood 's '60s girl group, Detroit's Honey Ltd. , remastered from the original mono tapes. The perfect Sunday AM soundtrack; listen to one of the record's highlights (and Chairlift's favorite Honey Ltd. song ) below, read the group's backstory here , and pre-order the record on limited, 180 gram blue vinyl (out July 23 ) here .
My Body - Pyramids (Frank Ocean Cover) Brooklyn’s synth pop darlings My Body made a wonderful cover on Frank Ocean ’s Pyramids . From the mind blowing opening over some serious psych dub marching rhythms to the sultry female pop vocals softly covered with the ’70s sounds of a psychedelic guitar, this cover could easily be cofused for an original! Take some time and listen ‘cause this might be one of the best covers the year 2013 has offered us….
All too often though the ideas and formula seems repetitive and recycled. I find it hard to recall any of the highlights after listening and nothing really stays with me or pulls me back in. - By Phil Johnston
Promo poster for The Cramps' Psychedelic Jungle , IRS Records, 1981. Source .
Another top night put on by Baba Yaga’s Hut, they really are putting on some mind melting gigs so my advice would be to get down to Elephant and Castle at the next opportunity and fill your brain with trippy wonder. By Richard Collins
The hipsters will no doubt love it then cast it aside when something new comes along but for the ones who stick with it, this is a wonderful little album. By Martyn coppack
MONEY - Bluebell Fields Manchester based band MONEY , after having signed to Bella Union Records , are currently putting the finishing touches to their debut album, due to release for late summer. Bluebell Fields is the first single, a striking psych folk experience filled with all these colorful emotions to make you wanna fly above a field of roses! A little masterpiece that unfolds its unlimited potentials second by second, making truly sense with the above video of abstract and blurry images controlling your [...]
Initially only gently mental, Triangulation Station almost resembles Cardiff screwballs Islet calming down, Emma Daman delivering a retro warble atop pliable, slightly calypso psych. Of course it's not though it perhaps would, were Mark Thomas' dry vocal interventions not as thirstily maniacal as ever as he drones of "talking with the fire in the dark dark dark" midway through the longstanding live fave. Its bass restive and bulbous; its harmonies perfectly batshit, there's even a bit toward the alas, inevitable denouement that gingerly recalls Wanna Be Startin' Somethin' which, y'know, is never a bad thing... [...]
Thee Oh Sees Floating Coffin Castle Face Records Did you find The Flaming Lips' latest album, The Terror, lacking the the kind of wonderfully weird vibes Wayne Coyne and company had built their career upon? Yes? Well read on, because the San Francisco garage rock outfit, Thee Oh Sees have a dandy of a record for you. Featuring the same over-sized, blasted-all-out-to-hell guitar aesthetic as The Lips, Thee Oh Sees' Floating Coffin is gleeful, loud, and endearingly strange where The Terror was meek, and only scary in the way a hotel [...]
The man formerly known as Run DMT follows up one of the best records of 2011 with an immersive collection of stellar throwback psych-pop jams created under his latest guise/questionable drug pun, Salvia Plath . This thing ranges from lovely pastoral folk to sunny, harmony-drenched '60s pop to much darker, subtly demented psychedelia; " House of Leaves " crosses paths with all three. Video directed by Sasha Desree + Renee Clark . The Bardo Story is out in July on Weird World .
In the wake of their rather extraordinary, barnstormer of a classic, Satori , the Flower Traveling Band stepped up to the bar and managed to pull off that all-too-rare of feats, an artistically successful follow-up. While not quite the record that Satori had been, Made In Japan managed to establish the Band as a force to be reckoned with, and hinted at a long and illustrious career to come. Something seems to have gone a little haywire in-between the time that third record hit shelves and the compilation of what would [...]
If you are looking to part with some hard earned cash and you enjoy tags such as Drone, Post Rock, Experimental, Space, Instrumental and Krautrock then this collaboration is most definitely for you. By Jon Henderson
Endless Boogie have quite the reputation for their blistering live shows so we sent Ross Pike down to Corsica Studios to see it for himself.
There are some bands that maintain classic status to a certain informed percentage of listeners despite almost complete anonymity elsewhere. Chicago folk-rockers H.P. Lovecraft may never have made much of a musical impact on the 1960s/1970s psychedelic rock scene, but they did manage to lay down two extraordinarily cosmic records of west coast rockers that rank up with the best the era had to offer. Their self-titled debut, released on Philips in 1967, set the scene: tight rhythm section, spaced-out guitars, whirling organ, and wide-screen vocal harmonies. Though they took their name from Edgar Allen Poe's most worthy of successors, [...]
As of this afternoon, approximately 712,000 people have listened to The National's new single, "Demons," on Youtube . I was not one of them. I may have sampled a few seconds here and a few seconds there, but I never really settled in with it. The National need your time, like that. "Demons," from their forthcoming album, Trouble Will Find Me ( 4AD on 5.12 ), like much of their best work, isn't the type of track to awe on a sample or even a single listen. It takes a little time for the deftness of their craft [...]
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