Well, color me embarrassed. I was fully unaware that Mercury Rev’s Deserter’s Songs had been awarded “Modern Classic” status. 9.3 from Pitchfork? Wha? I didn’t even realize Pitchfork was around when I was in high school. In any case, great to see this one on vinyl – it is indeed a classic. Pick it up [...]

Now here’s an album that is undeniably great, the newest full length from San Francisco heavy rockers Hammers of Misfortune. This is true metal of epic proportions, seamlessly blending many, many styles. For those of you complaining about black or death vocals ruining good riffs, well, the man on the mic for this band has [...]

Another winner from the review pile: Company play South Carolina lo-fi indie pop, the kind for sitting around and sipping coffee on a crisp autumn morning with the windows open. Music for wearing sweaters and growing beards; an emotive and yearning album for all the whimsical existentialists out there. Pick up a copy on colored [...]

I am loving this new 7″ from Occultation streaming (in full) over at invisibleoranges.com. Their writeup claims “ties” to Negative Plane and you can definitely hear the guitar tone from the magnificent Stained Glass Revelations present on this single. But instead of psychedelic black surf-metal, we are treated to late night rituals soundtracked for moonlit clearings. [...]

This shit is straight off the Autobahn. Cave have truly pulled up their motorik, Krautrock roots and are waving them around for everybody to see. I’m really quite excited to listen to Neverendless on vinyl, this type of music just seems to perfectly fit the analogue medium (see Kraftwerk, Neu!, etc.) but what’s this – you [...]

Thrill Jockey continues to kill with two brand new releases. “West”, the new album from Wooden Shjips, is another great entry in the band’s extensive discography of modern psychedelia. The rhythms are exact, the music is foggy, and the overall vibe is that of a laid-back mindbender. It sounds krauty at times, Sabbathy at other [...]

In case you were not yet aware, Radiohead is rolling out a series of 12″ EPs featuring remixes off of The King of Limbs from all of their (or at least Thom Yorke’s) favorite producers. The series so far has produced fantastic 12′s featuring the likes of Caribou, Jacques Green, Harmonic 313, Mark Pritchard and [...]

These guys again. Bringing the weird all the way from Manchester and directly into your living room, where it cavorts around on the rug in silly and suggestive positions, making your girlfriend uncomfortable and your friends embarrassed for you. Tapes or vinyl, I can’t seem to get enough of these psychedelic weirdos. In Gnod We Trust [...]

The three album long, total blow-out psychedelic rock epic Thank Your Parents is brought to a close with this album, Absolute II, by Oneida. Merely a single LP this time, considerably scaled back from the 3xLP behemoth O, this one should be slightly more parsable. Available for $14 from scdistribution.com.

300 copies of deep Tokyo psychedelia are now available from the Sloow Tapes label. Soaring cosmic riffs allow your chakras to blossom fully while sludgy rhythms and lung-collapsing feedback keep you firmly tethered to the planet earth. Hopefully this will make it over to some domestic distros soon but if you need it now, sort [...]