Midday Veil | Subterranean Ritual II [2011] A psychedelic meditation awaits you in this EP. Midday Veil creates a psychedelic, drone, trance-like feel with their mix of guitars, synths, drums, and vocalizations on this two-track release. Spacey, haunting, ethereal, hypnotic, and futuristic are all words I’d use to describe this release. “Moon Temple” begins to draw you in with spacey, trancelike vocals and psychedelic instrumentation, and suddenly that all melts away to reveal this heavy, sci-fi-esque beams of sound that cut across the song, all before the second half of the EP, “Naxos” begins, taking you further into the trance-state. You can find Midday Veil on Facebook, Instagram, and Bandcamp.…
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Wade Easy | Sea of Night
Capturing the sound of the psych folk scene, “Sea of Night” by Wade Easy taps into the roots of the forest and the underworld of the Appalachian Mountains. Recorded in Morgantown, WV, the album is a slow burn, letting the songs settle under the surface cohesively throughout the whole album. The guitar strings are worn, the drone heavy, and entropy fills the air on each track. “Where the River Sinks” opens with some raga folk tanpura drone. These are the sounds of the dried up river bed. The first song leads up to a more polished, full band song “Dead Moons,” yet still a low-fi rock representing the production of…
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NEWSLETTER #11
Newsletter #11 features new upcoming artists like Pye Corner, BLKE, Masal & Emma Anderson as well as established shoegaze rockers Lorelle Meets Obsolete, The Early Years, The Asteroid No. 4, Elephant Stone, Panda Bear and Sonic Boom. We have included a surprise new single from King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard. In all 17 new releases that will keep you on the bleeding edge of new music.
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Magic Castles New Album ‘Realized’
Magic Castles new album has the perfect warm summer shoegaze and psychrock vibe. Gentle vocals, lush echoing guitars all with harmonics and retro sunrise over the ocean aesthetics. There is a reason Brainjones Town Massacre has promoted this band. For fans of Velvet Underground, BJM, Allah-las and LSD and The Search For God.
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Psychedelicatessen Review #3
“Psychedelicatessen Review” marks a nostalgic and celebratory return to the foundational years of POW, reflecting on the era before the magazine established its dedicated website. The journey of POW originally began on Apr 15, 2011, sparked by our founder, Dennis Gonzales inaugural radio broadcast on KFJC 89.7 FM in Los Altos, California. This broadcast served as the initial platform for the magazine concept before it transitioned into a digital format. Between 2012 and 2016, our efforts were largely concentrated on building a presence through social media, where we focused on curating music videos, conducting in-depth interviews with emerging bands, and meticulously documenting their performances on video. Following 2016, we expanded…
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Fusing Psychedelia and Classical Indian Elements – Lamp of the Universe’s Existence of the Self
Back in February, New Zealand’s own Lamp of the Universe released their first album in about three years, Existence of the Self. Going into my listening session, I was expecting a fusion of classical Indian music, sitar instrumentals, and elements of psychedelic rock. I’m not entirely certain I got that fusion on each song on this album. As described on Bandcamp, this album is touted as “transcendental, meditative, [and] tranced”. I was intrigued to see what this album had in store. The opening track and the second track, “Sceptre of Healing” and “Ship of Eternity”, respectively, felt extraordinarily like I didn’t quite get the mix or fusion I was hoping…
