“Ayahuasca Travellers peddle heavy, mystical psych-rock jams for people who ingest substances that are discussed in fascinating detail on Erowid.org. Through both direct and circuitous routes, their music turns your third eye pink.”
Moon Unit – Hell Horse And Heady Stratus (2010)
“Absolutely mind-blowing band from Glasgow, Scotland featuring members of Lanterns and Nackt Insecten. Bombast, monumental droning psychedelic rock jams with a touch of free improv and space rock. The guitar work and the freestyle drumming in vein of Flower-Corsano Duo. An absolute must have for every fan of the outer limits of psychedelia!”
Sunflare – Young Love (2011)
“Sonic attack trio. Music that rises from spontaneous collective energy and heavy-fuzz blown out rock and roll.”
Liquorball – Evolutionary Squalor (2009)
Trippy cough syrup freakout jams freakout jams recorded live that will transcend you right on 5th plateau.
Space Debris – Elephant Moon (2008)
“Space Debris are a German band whose music will transport you back 30 years to the pioneering days of Krautrock and Progressive influenced Psychedelia. Lots of lengthy stretch out guitar jams and an old time organ sound that will make you swoon. Influences range from Amon Düül and Can on the one hand to a psychedelicious take on the Santana, Allman Brothers, and early Deep Purple stylings. If you like early 70’s styled jamming hard prog-psych you’ll love this.”
Tetragon – Stretch (2009)
Unbelievably good spontaneous duel jams between Hammond organ and wah-wah guitar.
Eidetic Seeing – Eidetic Seeing (2010)
“Eidetic Seeing are serious about psyching you out. Eidetic Seeing is a record that draws you near with its opening spacey drone and sucks you into a vortex, blowing some serious mind chunks in the process, leaving the mind and the body discombobulated on separate planes… Eidetic Seeing don’t fuck around; the record was recorded live in one take, so there is no studio trickery involved… reminiscent of Sabbath’s first record abounds throughout; this is heavy stuff, not for the weak at heart… Eidetic Seeing is not meant to be taken song for song, but to be listened to from beginning to end. Strap in, psych out, and leave no mind behind!”
Eternal Tapestry & Sun Araw – Night Gallery (2011)
“It’s certainly good music with nothing that wouldn’t theoretically appeal to all outré rock fans. It was recorded completely live, with no overdubs, in one 45-minute session at the University of Texas after the two acts became best buddies during the course of the SXSW Festival. So, it has that rawness that can make many a jam session as electrifying on disc as it would have been when witnessed live. There are delicious swathes of fuzzed-out electric guitars, the kind of unending riff-meets-solo that has become somewhat de facto on the modern-day psych scene. Eternal Tapestry favor a twin-guitar attack, with Nick Bindeman and the appropriately moniker-ed Dewey Mahood Wah segueing in and out of each other’s solos, taking it in turn to try and dazzle with the distorted strings of their axes.”
Over-Gain Optimal Death – Over-Gain Optimal Death (2008)
“Over-Gain Optimal Death, or OGOD, are a heavy psych power trio from Pasadena, California. Playing blown-out overgaining speed-freak-outs, their sound is enveloped in a total nihilist fuzz atmosphere, mating intoxicating pulsing repetition with hyperactive improvisations and out of body guitar solos. Resurrecting US 60s punk and acid-riffage from the likes of Blue Cheer, the Stooges, MC5 and live Hendrix Experience, OGOD also draws greatly on the in-the-red sound aesthetic and high energy of the Japanese Speed Freak trios of the 80s/90s: High Rise, Mainliner, Musica Transonic. OGOD are quickly rising as one of the heaviest psych bands of the U.S.”
The Cosmic Dead – Psychonaut (2011)
“The Cosmic Dead is a new, amazing, experimental and cosmic psych/space/kraut/drone rock collective from Glasgow, Scotland. These guys have been playing together actively since early 2010 and their first actual album was released on tape in May. This really mind-blowing tape has four tracks and is 80 minutes long, so be prepared for long, trippy jams.”