McPhee – ‘McPhee’ (1971)
Guerssen’s Sommor imprint reissues this mega-rarity from Australian heavy psych quartet McPhee. Originally released in November 1971 in limited quantities on the Violets Holiday imprint, the liners suggest...
Jeff Penczak
Black Bombaim – ‘Zone Of Resident Bodies’ (2019)
Black Bombaim – Zone Of Resident Bodies (Cardinal Fuzz | Lovers & Lollypops 2019) The Portuguese sound sculptists are known for their collaborative efforts, but they’ve definitely pushed the...
Prana Crafter – ‘MindStreamBlessing’ (2019)
Prana Crafter - “MindStreamBlessing” (Cardinal Fuzz/Eiderdown 2019) Will Sol is Prana Crafter and his new album is a laidback floating collection of slow burning guitar soundscapes. Opener ‘At Agartha’s...
The Bangles / The Dream Syndicate / The Three O’Clock / Rain Parade – “3×4” (2019) review
The Bangles / The Dream Syndicate / The Three O’Clock / Rain Parade – 3x4 (Yep Rock, 2019) Boy, do we need this – a perfect time for...
King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard – “Gumboot Soup” (2017) review
King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard - Gumboot Soup (Flightless Records, 2017) https://kinggizzard.bandcamp.com/album/gumboot-soup Keeping the promise to their fans to release five albums in 2017, the Lizards snuck this...
Black Elephant – “Cosmic Blues” (2018) review
Black Elephant - Cosmic Blues (Small Stone Recordings, 2018) https://smallstone.bandcamp.com/album/cosmic-blues Third album from Italian quartet continues to mine their heavy psychedelic blues, verging at times on sludgy Sabbathian...
Oh Sees – ‘Smote Reverser’ (2018)
Yet another act hampered with a silly name (in fact, they’ve rummaged through over half a dozen variations in their two-decade career and released albums under five different...
Kikagaku Moyo – ‘Masana Temples’ (2018)
Well, you had me as soon as I popped this on and felt Kurosawa Ryu’s headswirling sitar wash over me, but ‘Entrance’ is just one of the reasons...
Automatism – ‘From The Lake’ (2018)
Debut album (not counting their eponymous track downloadable on their Bandcamp site) from the Swedish psych quartet that grew out of Kungens Män, both of whom specialize in...
Frankie Teardrop Dead – “All You Need Is Love and F*cking Peace” (2018) review
Frankie Teardrop Dead - All You Need Is Love and Fucking Peace (Panther Records, 2018) https://frankieteardropdead.bandcamp.com/album/all-you-need-is-love-and-fucking-peace Another band in love will adopting rather silly puns for their name (cf.,...