Psych for the Road

I'm off to the wild lands of Alaska to spend my summer slowly but surely depleting the salmon population (forgive me great salmon god!), and I'm driving my way up there this afternoon with a pack of hippies in a pick up truck. So hippies in a truck need their fill of psychedelic grooves to get there way down the road. Here are some highlights. First up Mr Mikal Cronin! Sweet beach melodies with dirty garage psych! Oh how nice. The Lemondrops! You know how they do. KAK! Dig the electric sailor if you are from space, or you'd like to visit. I'll just leave you with this gem.

Darker My Love

HHhmmm... ok. So I've returned. Only because I haven't posted a thing in almost a years time and I'm going to be out of reach for another set of months. Not that it matters. So it's time to recirculate some psychedelic music into the inter-fi-net. The band is LA based Darker My Love. The two frontmen of the band, Tim Presley (White Fence in other realms) and Rob Barbato both had a temporary stint in the reformation of the Fall, but since then have continued to turn out the tunes with Darker My Love. They put out their first record in 2006, which was solid effort full of dirty garage psych sounds- a wall of sound and texture. They might bring to mind Brian Jonestown Massacre (and actually now have the former drummer Dan Allaire), but I don't want to draw too close of comparisons. These dudes have chops of their own and have developed their own style. Particularly on their most recent record "Alive as You Are" which takes a more mellow psych folk turn. Anyway, here is a little taste.

Ariel Pink

Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti covers the Rockin Ramrods "Bright Lit Blue Skies" and its waaaaaaayyyyy better.

Not to knock it. Just saying.

Apples in Stereo

apples in stereo, fun trick noisemaker, innerspace. nuff said

The Telescopes

The Telescopes are some prolific shoegaze rockers.

If you haven't dabbled in shoegaze you should probably start here. The term literally comes from bands zoning out in waves of feedback gazing down at their shoes. I think you'll get the idea pretty fast.

Check some of this out. It's best if you listen on some headphones or legit speakers.




The Telescopes - Flying from albatross38 on Vimeo.

Tim Maia

Sweet, sweet Latin Soul Psych... dig the fuzz tone guitar and the funk horn lines, great fusion.

Tim Maia- Nao Vou Ficar

My Morning Jacket

I'd use the term psych loosely when talking about My Morning Jacket, but there are definite hints of it in there.

But anyways, here's to Jim James and the gang for being themselves and rocking out for the rest of us.
Can't wait to see them at Edgefield this summer!