Shadrock Chameleon – “Shadrock Chameleon” (1973) review
Shadrock Chameleon - Shadrock Chameleon (Out-Sider Records, 1973/2017 reissue) Iowa may be known for several things (farms, the American Pickers TV show, corn fields, and local artist Grant...
Jeff Penczak
Hayato Takeuchi – “EP” (2017) review
Hayato Takeuchi - EP (Bearsuit Records, 2017) Tokyo-based, multi-instrumentalist Hayato has previously released material under the name Bubbly Folks, and a self-titled album (L.S.F.) appeared in 2013 on...
Rain – “Rain” (1972) review
Album reissue on Out-Sider (2017) / Originally released on Project 3 (1972) Guerssen The lone album from Philadelphia’s Rain is an interesting melting pot of harmonic pop (‘Let...
Asimov – ‘Truth’ (2017)
Truth is the third album from Lisbon, Portugal’s heavy psych monsters Asimov. Their heady brew of heavy psych stew is generated by just two dudes, Carlos Ferreira and...
Number Three Combo – “Resurfacing” (2017) review
Number Three Combo - Resurfacing (SlowBurn Records, 2017) Multi-instrumentalist Eric Johnson has spearheaded Tucson, Arizona-based SlowBurn Records for three decades, and the label celebrates its 30th anniversary with...
Tapiman – “Hard Drive” (2017) review
Tapiman - Hard Drive (Guerssen Records, 1971/2017) One of our favourite reissue labels unearths some primo 1971 home recordings from one of Spain’s heaviest power trios....
Swamp Sounds / Uncle Pops & The Dumbloods (2017) review
Swamp Sounds / Uncle Pops & The Dumbloods (Bearsuit Records, 2017) https://bearsuitrecords.bandcamp.com/album/swamp-sounds-uncle-pops-the-dumbloods The always strange and intriguing Bearsuit delivers a split release from electronic sound collagists Yuuya Kuno...
Lamagia – Lamagia (2017) review
Lamagia - Lamagia (LP on Cardinal Fuzz/Sunrise Ocean Bender, 2017) Listen: https://lamagaia-sob.bandcamp.com/album/lamagaia Sophomore full length from Sweden psychsters features 35 minutes of brain-crushing, throbbing deliciousness split across two sidelong tracks....
Jeff Liberman – Solitude Within (1975) review
(Original release on Librah/1975; reissue on Out-Sider/2016) Guerssen Records Listen The second of three Liberman albums reissued by Out-Sider (with liner notes from our editor) is a little...
Annie & The Station Orchestra – Bingo Halls (2016) review
Annie & The Station Orchestra – Bingo Halls (Bearsuit Records, 2016) Strange name for a guy, one Chas Kinnis, who apparently took his nom de group from a...