Bird Nest Roys - Aint Mutatin (video)

Look Back In Anger: Hi, Swingers!! Its been a little while but its time to begin again. First off special shoutout to Yumi Zouma and GVB for turning me on to this amazing group of New Zealanders, from they heyday of Flying Nun. Like being swirlied in a toilet of rainbow tea, this woozy single reverberates with psychedelic warmth and glittering harmonies. Not unlike other excellent Flying Nun label mates, Bird Nest Roys, dabbled in both jangley college rock, and hazified Dream Pop. Cast in black and white and complete with groovy background dancers, The Roys, (with a wink and a nod), knowingly acknowledge their roots in late 60s drug music, like The Byrds, or The Stones circa Their Satantic Majesties; while simultaneously layering in touches of modern Pop, a la REM, or The Field Mice. This tune really reminds me of the My Bloody Valentine song, "Cigarette In Your Bed," with the way it phases around your head like lovely purple fog. Trust me this one is worth a listen. Dig it man, dig it:

Sunflower Bean - 2013 (video)

Psychedelic Jangle spanglers, Sunflower Bean, are on some kind of roll and ain't no one kickin em off. Just saw their write up in The Voice (worth reading) and so its time we mention them here. Like the love child of Felt, Vivian Girls and possibly Spacemen 3, SB are genre mashers of the highest pedigree. Spinning weaves of intricate, chorus laden guitar, beneath bewitching basslines and hair-raising drum clatters, this is the type of shit I'm tryina hear. Vocally comparative to other C86ers, Sunflower keep their psychedelics grounded with focused pop melodies and harmonies. Check this out, right now:

Morgan Delt - Barbarian Kings (video)

Recently exposed to this mind-melding whirlwind. Morgan Delt makes Timothy Leary look like a child. This is is the most serious of Psychedelic. Like Black Moth Super Rainbow and Captain Beefheart turning down and chilling out. You gotta feel this man:

Bored Nothing - Ice-Cream Dreams (video)

Psychedelic, Garage Rock, 90s fuzz, and Modern Schlitz - genres adjectives that seem apropos to this posting. Getting stuck in an Ice-Cream Dream seems like it would really suck... at least for me cuz ice cream upsets my stomach these days. For Bored Nothing, he somehow is incapable of escaping such dreams, and so lives a perpetual nightmare. It seems like the worst existence and yet somehow he endeavors to put out a tune or 2, when hes not haunted by the specters of frozen dairy. On the real, this is a nice jam that I would totally put on a playlist for the Fall.. if I was working on one.

Ariel Pink - Put Your Number In My Phone

Reaching back to the 70s, Ariel Pink's new single is a warm, lovesick ballad about meeting the right chick. Sounding like a modern day, psychedelic swirly of The Carpenters and Steely Dan, Pink hits all the right notes with this homage to carpe diem. Dig:

The Orwells - The Righteous Ones (video)

If Nirvana had been more into sounding slightly popier and slightly more psychedelic they wouldn't have been too far off from The Orwells. Messy haired Brits, with a soft spot for The Doors and possibly Alice In Chains? The Orwells shred through a serious head-bobber. Don't be so self righteous and listen these Righteous dudes:

Here To Fall

Whoa. Cool. Yo La Tengo have a new tune out, off of their forthcoming Popular Songs. Hard to say if this jam will really be that popular, but I'm a fan. It's a psychedelic diddy, with a totally hypnotic video to boot. Prepare to get messsssssssssssssssssssssssmerized by this shit. Lots of strings, and guitars, and planes, and the sky man: