The Hanging Stars – ‘Golden Vanity’ / ‘Floodbound’ (2015)
When this single arrived at my door I was rather stuck by the sincerity and hazed splendor of the neo-psychedelic jangle pop held within these groves, riding on...
Jenell Kesler
Heaven – “All Love Is Blue” (2018) review
Heaven - All Love Is Blue (Little Cloud Records, 2018) https://littlecloudrecords.bandcamp.com/album/all-love-is-blue As with All Love Is Blue, Heaven’s first album Telepathic Love also featured the word ‘love’ prominently...
Mt. Mountain – ‘EP’ (2014)
Mt. Mountain’s self-titled EP is a lazy sounding hypnotic hazy drugged space adventure, provided the space you seek is no wider than your listing area, as Mt. Mountain...
The Black Sand – ‘Lost in a Dream’ (2017)
Floating in from New Zealand, The Black Sand deliver a hypnotic series of fuzzed out sustained neo-psychedelic songs that are heavily washed in reverb and effects to enrapture...
From The Vault: Pink Floyd – “Animals” (1977)
An album we need now more than ever ... It’s taken me a very long time to consider both the effects and truth behind Pink Floyd’s release of...
The Chesterfield Kings – “Psychedelic Sunrise” (2007) review
The Chesterfield Kings - Psychedelic Sunrise (Wicked Cool, 2007) Without a doubt, shortly into America’s punk musical phase, The Chesterfield Kings revamped the garage rock psych sounds of...
Kontiki Suite – “On Sunset Lake” (2013) review
Kontiki Suite - On Sunset Lake (2013) https://kontikisuite.bandcamp.com/album/on-sunset-lake Drifting on a summer breeze out of Laurel Canyon by way of the UK, Kontiki Suite shimmer the evening fire...
From The Vault: Spirit – ‘Twelve Dreams of Dr. Sardonicus’ (1970)
Many consider Twelve Dreams of Dr. Sardonicus, released in 1970, to be Spirit’s finest hour, though I still find their initial self titled album to be their crowning...
From the South – “Cool, Cool Memories” (2012) review
From the South - Cool, Cool Memories (Birds Love Fighting, 2012) https://fromthesouth.bandcamp.com/album/cool-cool-memories Straight from Australia and into your heart, From The South venture into the atmospheric realm of shimmering...
The Bad Losers interview
There’s a certain element of both fans and musicians who feel that the Mersey, garage and freakbeat sounds of the mid 60’s were some of the best and...