psych Archive
22 Apr 2016
Five Quick Ones
About once a month I like to visit my “in for review” shelf and pull out some titles that I’ve been meaning to get to for some time. For whatever […]
20 Apr 2016
Album Mini-review: Quilt — Plaza
File next to: Woods, Fresh & Onlys, Mikal Cronin With Plaza, Boston-based Quilt dials back the more overt psychedelic/garage textures of their first two full-lengths. Keyboardist Anna Fox Rochinski remains […]
25 Mar 2016
Album Mini-review: Doug Tuttle — It Calls On Me
File next to: Tame Impala, Plasticland, Starling Electric On his self-titled 2014 debut, Doug Tuttle staked out his musical territory: a shimmering, woozy, yet highly tuneful 21st century take on […]
09 Mar 2016
Album Mini-review: The Besnard Lakes — A Coliseum Complex Museum
File Next to: Flaming Lips, Polyphonic Spree, Rain Parade Long song titles, albums with epic names, and a gauzy space-rock vibe are the hallmarks of this Montréal group, newly expanded […]
29 Feb 2016
Album Review: Arthur Lee / Love — Coming Through to You: The Live Recordings (1970-2004)
With the (both critically and commercially) belated realization by the music world-at-large that Love‘s 1967 album Forever Changes is a classic came an unfortunate misconception. That was the idea that […]
04 Feb 2016
Album Mini-review: The Roaring 420s – You Can’t Get Out Alive
File next to: Elephant Stone, Allah-Las, Fuzztones For The Roaring 420s, everything old is new again. Across the twelve songs on *You Can’t Get Out Alive – their second full-length […]
11 Jan 2016
Album Mini-review: Milk Lines — Ceramic
File next to: Skip Spence, 13th Floor Elevators, Black Angels Just when you think the guitar-and-drums-duo format is totally played out, along comes Montréal-based Milk Lines. Rather than slammin’, unsubtle […]
17 Dec 2015
Album Review: Ancient River — Keeper of the Dawn
With its transgressive album cover – photos arranged in an upside-down crucifix style, featuring spooky overlays of grinning skulls – you’d be forgive for guessing that Ancient River‘s Keeper of […]
20 Nov 2015
Album Mini-review: of Montreal — Snare Lustrous Doomings
File next to:Soft Boys, Olivia Tremor Control, Television One of the most commercially successful exponents of the Athens GA-based Elephant 6 Collective, of Montreal has a well-deserved reputation for powerful […]
13 Nov 2015
November 100-word Reviews, Part 5
My current crop of hundred-word reviews wraps up with some odds and ends, all worth a listen. I generally don’t review from MP3 files, but in a few cases I […]