Artists worldwide have been exploring the visionary potential of electrical instruments in all manner of new and novel ways to create psychedelic music.
The West Coast tour finds the Black Angels on a path to return home to Austin to headline this year’s Levitation on Halloween, which makes it feel like a treat.
Elephant9’s new LP is a showpiece for what can happen when masterful instrumentalists follow the muse, fueled by an audience that locks into every twist.
Spirit of the Beehive offer their most rangy yet integrated album, each track striking a notable balance between sonic exploration and hook-leaning songcraft.
Despite society’s antagonism toward introverts, Tame Impala’s Kevin Parker steadfastly offers himself as a vulnerable, somewhat blushing symbol of the gifted loner.
With the help of Kevin Parker and Danny L. Harle, Dua Lipa’s new album Radical Optimism sounds like Tame Impala meets PC Music and goes to headline Glastonbury.
It’s an Aquatic Soiree celebrating String Cheese Incident’s 30th anniversary, with each set representing a succeeding decade in their illustrious career.
Boards of Canada’s Music Has the Right to Children is murky, burned, and melted. It sounds like 1980s synth, disco, new age, and new wave heard through a wall.
Vanishing Twin’s Afternoon X is a worthwhile musical journey through a wealth of different ambient, psychedelic, and groove-based sounds.
Portland’s experimental post-rock kingpins Grails mark two decades since their debut with a new full-length retrospective LP and chat with PopMatters.
Weval pore beats and static all over the melodies on their dense textural new album, Remember, which only highlights how melodic it really is.
Whether calming you with lush songs like “Aerodrome” and “The Coming Days” or tickling the edges of your mind with “Thorn”, the Church’s The Hypnogogue is stunning.
