psychedelic
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Foxygen has put out a new video for the title track from its latest LP, We Are the 21st Century Ambassadors of Peace & Magic, and it’s a real trip. The duo appropriates recognizable old-school psychedelic visual effects–the graveyard setting evoking the LSD sequence in Easy Rider, in
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Check out the groovy title track from electronic music duo Gardland’s forthcoming debut LP Syndrome Syndrome. The twosome describes the sound of the album as “elegantly wasted,” which seems to be an apt description given the whirring psychedelic synth and pseudo-tribal percussion found on this track. Enjoy! Syndrome Syndrome
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Stream: Oranssi Pazuzu – “Vino Verso” Finnish black metal outfit Oranssi Pazuzu is known for incorporating elements of psychedelic and space rock into its music, resulting in a listening experience that is as colorful and vibrant as it is bonecrushing. This bold esthetic is in full-force on the opening track to
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Singer-songwriter Jonathan Rado releases a solo debut quickly after his main musical project, Foxygen, takes off with a successful album release earlier this year.
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There is no shortage of dancing and frolicking in the Albert Moya-directed music video for The Polyphonic Spree’s “You Don’t Know Me.” However, the stark visual esthetic and dank settings effectively render the video a bit disconcerting. But, it manages to retain most of its endearment–you know,
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Arizona loud rock outfit Destruction Unit have shared the song, “Bumpy Road” from their upcoming LP Deep Trip. With the previously released “The World on Drugs” and this new track, which is laden with noisy psychedelic grooves and clouded vocals; it appears as though the album will live up to
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Canadian experimental rock outfit Yamantaka // Sonic Titan has dropped a new psychedelic, hard-rocking single with “One,” which features heavy guitars set against some dreamy lead vocals and foreign-flavored chants. While the cavernous reverb does take a bit of the “beef” out of Yamantaka’s instrumentation, the band still comes through
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Mac Miller, the world’s most unlikely rap-critic’s pet, has released a fittingly psychedelic video for this cut off of his recent LP Watching Movies With the Sound Off. The video cycles between images of Mac rapping in a room of mirrors filled with lightbulbs and of a pretty
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When Arizona’s Destruction Unit named this track “The World On Drugs,” I guess they weren’t messing around. The song feels like a multi-phased trip that starts like a piece of hardcore punk, but suddenly shapeshifts into some slow-moving heavy psych. All the while, the band’s guitars are
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If you were to tell me that one of my favorite tracks of the year so far would prominently feature a sample of the Rolling Stones song “Gimme Shelter,” I would say that’s ridiculous. Damn, if New York hip-hop duo The Underachievers didn’t turn it into one hell
