psych pop
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4 years after Beach Fossils’ great sophomore album Clash the Truth, the Brooklyn band has returned with their most lavish effort yet. I can still commend the band for not shamelessly trend-chasing like many of their dreamy, jangly contemporaries, but unfortunately the pastiche of ’60s pop sounds they serve up
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Drugdealer invites Ariel Pink for a spot of throwback psych pop on his new album The End of Comedy, out now via Weird World.
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Seasoned art pop group of Montreal is following up last year’s Aureate Gloom with Innocence Reaches on August 12; above, check out the project’s amusing lead single.
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Unknown Mortal Orchestra‘s first single since last year’s catchy-as-hell Multi-Love (review).
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A new track off Yeasayer‘s fourth album Amen & Goodbye, out April Fool’s Day through Mute.
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The saucy closing track of Creation, a collection by spiritual lo-fi indie duo Lightstorm, out February 19 through Drag City.
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Melbourne’s King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard delivers an album of poppy, psychedelic, acoustic numbers on their latest project here.
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Tallahassee psych pop outfit Surface to Air Missive is putting out its sophomore album Third Missive this fall via Olde English Spelling Bee. The project will find the band expanding its instrumental palette with keys and woodwinds, adopting a more baroque aesthetic, and we’re stoked to premiere the lead
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While Temples’ shows a sincere appreciation for psychedelic pop on their debut album, the band does very little to deliver novel ideas or exciting performances.
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Neo-psych outfit MGMT returns with a fuzzy new album that’s got plenty of odd moments, but too few memorable ones.
