Following last year’s kosmiche and motorik currents on Horizontology, tarotplane returns with a decidedly more languid set of songs. The flow on Light Self All Others is meditative with a light dash…
This album has definitely been bubbling below the surface for some time. The L.A. psych collective GROOP has been letting out a few singles over the past year, but this is the…
This one’s been popping up on the site since the first single hit a few months back, and now that its here in full, the record won’t be leaving my rotation soon.…
A couple of years ago a nice head trip of a record snuck out from John Jeffrey. Probably best known as the drummer from Moon Duo, Jeffrey shied away from the harder…
Since their inception, UK psych collective Wolf People has been an RSTB staple. The band has always carried and out-of-time quality about them, something familiar, yet otherworldly. Their albums were steeped in…
I wrote this great new single from WEEED up the other day, but the band’s gone and knocked it up a notch with an accompanying video that pairs the song’s dawn spirit…
Melbourne’s Clamm return with a new album on the way for Chapter Music this Summer. Like fellow Aussie heavy hitters Vintage Crop and Civic, the band meshes a knuckle-bitten punk with heavier…
Every single that’s found its way out from this new Stroppies record has been a delight, and the band doesn’t look to stop that momentum with “Smilers Strange Politely.” A tangle of…
“Time Out” is the latest from Aussie songwriter Jordan Thompson (The Ocean Party, Pop Filter), part of a triptych of color-coded EPs that he’s released over the past couple of years. The…
When he released Guv III last year, Ben Cook promised that it was the first part of another double set, and today the first video from Guv IV surfaces. Continuing his collaboration…
Royal Oakie Records offers up another nice bout of sunset-diped alt-country. This time members of Slow Season take a break from the psych whirlpool for a bit of open valley dust. Daniel…
I was out last Friday, but this was an exciting one to see come through. Longtime RSTB fave Matthew ‘Doc’ Dunn offers up an entry to the Sub Pop Singles club. After…
Got a corroded careen this morning from Ottawa’s Slow Dawn. The band’s grime barnacled post-punk crawls to life out of the shadows. Synths peer through the dark like beacons, but are refracted…
The first single from Abronia’s third LP is a slippery bit of psychedelia. Eastern-tinged guitars set the track along strange Ley Lines — working through the slinking sounds of Erkin Koray, the…
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