Showing posts with label psychedelic folk. Show all posts
Showing posts with label psychedelic folk. Show all posts

Thursday, August 27, 2009

The Lava Children - S/T

as soon as I started listening to this album I knew it had to be a chasmfiller. a Los Angeles based band with a taste for folkness and darkness at the same time. if Jim Morrison were alive, he would probably love this band. have a good trip.


"If awesome were a word, and life were worth living, then this band would be amazing. Well awesome is a word, and life for the most part is worth living, so this band fucking rocks. Los Angeles is where they call home, but their music feels so different from the sun and warmth of their surroundings. They create eerie masterpieces that bring about feelings of nostalgia. It makes me want to play with a Ouija board while eating ice cream with sprinkles or walk my dog into the middle of the woods and tell it a ghost story. I can only suggest listening to their music the way in which I first did. Go to your room right now. Turn off all the lights. If you have any plants in your house please drag them into your room (this will enhance the experience). Now sit back and let the music overwhelm you. Get ready to see everything that haunted you as a child. Then be prepared to love it, for you will be dancing and playing Candyland with all your fears in mere seconds. God bless?" - FATHER HUMMINGBIRD from BLACK MOTH SUPER RAINBOW


weird is good.

Monday, December 1, 2008

Dungen - Tio Bitar (2007)


This is a psych-rock beast!!!!! "Dungen (Swedish: “the grove”, pronounced [ˈdɵŋən], or roughly “DOONG-un”) is a Swedish rock band based in Stockholm. Often classified as psychedelic rock, Dungen is also influenced by Swedish (and other) folk music, classic rock, progressive rock and indie rock."

purple drank

Friday, November 7, 2008

Wil Malone.


















Just look at that cover. Hippie as fuck, no? Meet Wil Malone, with one L. Ex-member of psych bands: Orange bicycle and Motherlight. What? You haven't heard 'em? Well me neither. But this album stands out in its own right. His arrangements consist of acoustic guitars, cellos, organs, and some whimsical flutes, all baroque and shit. With his shaky geezer voice he swoons you with such tunes as "february face", which i dare you to get out of your head. We see his psych influence throughout but especially in the ghostly bridge in "love in the afternoon". This is a real nice listen, for everybody out there who's tired of hearing the same old Nick Drake songs.  

get swooned.

Tuesday, November 4, 2008

Kevin Ayers - Joy of a Toy.

"Kevin Ayers' talent is so acute you could perform major eye surgery with it." -John Peel

One of the founding members of Soft Machine, Ayers has played with the best of 'em: Brian Eno, John Cale, Syd Barrett & Nico; just to name a few.
Here is his first solo album and one of my all-time favorites. Quite the fucking gem.


















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