Category: Psych Rock

There’s little that King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard haven’t already done. A truly inexhaustible fountain of ideas seems to spring eternally from the ground in Australia. With Phantom Island (p(doom)), they’ve now released their first album featuring orchestral support. But don’t imagine it like Metallica’s experiment back in the…

The Australian band that sounds like they crawled straight out of the California desert is back: Los Palms have completed a new album. The self-titled record is set for release on August 29 via Fuzz Club. Their second full-length promises to continue the tradition of Desert Jangle Rock, as hinted…

It doesn’t get much more obvious: Paddang name one of their biggest influences right in the album title. Lost in Lizardland (Stolen Body / Le Cèpe / 98DB) is heavily shaped by King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard, as well as Thee Oh Sees in their early, rawer days. Somewhere…

King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard and Frank Zappa are among the influences of Bubblegum Hypnosis, a relatively new band from Bristol. With that kind of mix, you’d expect faces to melt and brains to get thoroughly scrambled. So—does Through The Sands (Stolen Body) deliver? The opening is fairly cautious,…

The Hooveriii spaceship has landed: After four albums exploring the realms of prog and space rock, Manhunter (The Reverberation Appreciation Society) brings the Los Angeles band back down to Earth. But all those cosmic excursions seem to have hurled them back in time—right into the heart of the 1970s. It’s…

Growing up on the outskirts of Houston, The Albinos are now poised to step into some massive Texan footprints with their blend of psych and garage rock. The tradition of psychedelic rock runs deep in this U.S. state, and The Albinos joined the lineage with their 2024 debut The Montana….

During their 2022 tour, Holy Wave found some time to step into Studio 22 in Los Angeles and work with Tomas Dolas. A few tracks from those sessions have already surfaced, but with Studio 22 Singles and B-Sides (Suicide Squeeze), we now get the full picture. The laid-back psych rockers…

“Take Drugs” was the name of a single by The Mushroom Club—so right away, we know what kind of mushrooms we’re dealing with. The Scottish band leans into a sleepy, psychedelic rock sound, with more than a passing nod to shoegaze. Walk Into The Light (P.U.G.) is their latest release,…

Someone clearly has a deep love for King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard: Paddang have titled their new album Lost in Lizardland (Le Cèpe / Stolen Body), and on the first single “Pressure,” they sound exactly like it. But don’t call them copycats. The track still holds its own, with…

You can tell just from the song titles: on their new album III (Howlin Banana / Wita), Gloria are diving deep into mythology. Sonically, though, they don’t reach quite as far back—opting to settle comfortably in the 1960s. The French band plays a melodic brand of psych rock, subtly weaving…