Neo-Psychedelia / Psychedelic Rock / Prog (80s-today)

h8 wrote:I was browsing this forum's list of best albums of 2013 and I noticed it's mostly neo psychedelia. The second thing I noticed was that the list was missing the album Reward Your Grace by the french outfit THE FEELING OF LOVE. I asked mr. innocent 76 "what gives?" and he told me he hasn't heard the band, then I thought "maybe the other greek shroom lovers also didn't hear about the band?"

h8 wrote:Anyway I will crush that injustice with this single post in the last 24 hours:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loop_(band) wrote:Loop were formed in 1986 by Robert Hampson (vocals, guitar), with his then-girlfriend Becky Stewart on drums. Bex was soon replaced by John Wills (The Servants) and Glen Ray, with James Endeacott on guitar.[1][2] Initially releasing records on their own Head label, their first release was 1987's '16 Dreams', with debut album Heaven's End following later that year. The band's psychedelic/drone rock gained comparisons with Spacemen 3, much to the latter's annoyance.[3][4][5]

Ray and Bex left, to be replaced by Endeacott, Wills and Neil MacKay,[1] the band also being signed up by Chapter 22 Records, returning with a more polished sound with the 'Collision' single in 1988. Second album Fade Out followed in 1989, reaching No. 51 on the UK album chart.[1] Endeacott left the band in 1988, Scott Dowson joined the following year. They changed labels again to Beggars Banquet subsidiary Situation Two, releasing the 'Arc-Lite' single in 1989 and the third and final studio album A Gilded Eternity in 1990.

The band split in 1991, with Hampson briefly joining Godflesh before forming Main with Dowson. Hampson's Main project was discontinued in 2006 and while he now releases under his own name in 2010 he announced the return of Main, albeit as a collaborative project with other sound artists. Wills and Mackay went on to form The Hair and Skin Trading Company, which last released in 1995. Wills now performs and records as Pumajaw.

Loop recorded three Peel sessions for John Peel (11 August 1987, 14 June 1988 and 21 January 1990). A collection of these sessions entitled Wolf Flow was released in 1992. Following the split Loop's official studio albums were re-released on their Reactor label. Their sound was influenced by Krautrock and No Wave influences and relied heavily on three chord riffs. Some of the records featured cover versions of Suicide, The Pop Group and Can tracks. The band played at the Reading Festival in 1989.

Hampson's MySpace pages referred to friendly pressure to again re-release the Loop albums and these were eventually released in November 2008 on the Reactor label.[6]

http://www.delerium.co.uk/bands/spaciousmind/index.html wrote:Formed in 1991, The Spacious Mind have since become known as one of the world's leading psychedelic bands. Their music owes as much to the acid haze of the San Francisco ballrooms in the late 60's, as it does to the unknown areas of space, heart and time. The twin guitars are battling over a steady drums/bass background, while the atmospheric keyboards are swirling in and out of your mind, and together they create a melancholic tapestry of sounds that should please anyone into consciousness raising or simply the message of LOVE.

http://www.last.fm/music/Saddar+Bazaar wrote:Saddar Bazaar (translation: central market) is raga rock band based in Bristol, UK. Formed in 1990 by Shaun Hyder (sitar) and Rehan Matthew Hyder (guitar), they were soon joined by John Sage on drums and supported various bands in the local area such as The Seers, Praise Space Electric and the Bevis Frond

http://www.last.fm/music/Birth+of+Joy wrote:Influenced by psychedelica, blues and steaming rock&roll this trio takes you back to the good old times of MC5, The Doors and even Pink Floyd. At the same time they introduce a modern twist influenced by stoner, grunge and punk and hence create their own sound! With a drum-player that could be John Bonham’s son, an organist that harasses his instrument to death and a singer/guitarist that seems to be the power-incarnation of Jim Morrison, this band is bound to catapult psychedelic rock&roll back into our modern times with an energy you can’t resist!

http://www.last.fm/music/My+Sleeping+Karma wrote:Hailing from Aschaffenburg, Germany, My Sleeping Karma started in 2005 as a side-project of the stoner rock band The Great Escape. Some day Seppi (guitar), Steffen (drums) and Matte (bass) started to jam together. In order to style their music more psychedelic keyboarder Norman joined at the end of the year and the line-up was completed thereafter. Soon they had worked out some songs based on the idea to create something which chills and rocks at the same time

http://www.dwacres.com/ wrote:E GONE is Daniel Westerlund of Swedish psychedelic folk rock group The Goner, and All the Suns of the Earth is his new solo album, which involves a slight change in name and a major progression on the eclectic styles of the earliest Goner recordings. In the same way a properly mixed drug will cure while a mis-formulation could prove fatal, disparate musical elements that in less skilled hands might be disorienting – everything from sitars to banjos, old-school beats to ethnic percussion, stark folk picking to squalling electronics, heart-tugging balladry to strutting acid-rock – instead gets compounded in exact proportion through Westerlund’s ever-growing talents in songwriting, performance, and production, making Suns…

http://www.last.fm/music/DEAD+HORSE+ONE wrote:DEAD HORSE ONE is a French eclectic musical group founded by Olivier Debard, Jérome Simonian and Antoine Pinet in 2011 in Valence. Their music spans multiple genres including Shoegaze and psychedelia…their avowed aim is to be a ”Heavenly choir of jet engines” filling the soundscape of the world with an endless extended note, wistful and melancholic….macabre and beautiful…from which will emerge pop songs…and they do.

http://www.strangeflowers.net/The_Strange_Flowers/The_Strange_Flowers_So_Far.html wrote:The Strange Flowers carrier spans over 3 decades, having the band been founded in Pisa in 1987. A constant trademark of their path is an incredible ability of getting close to true success and celebrity and systematically blowing it or being overcome by unpredictable drawbacks. Yet, this somehow poetic feature almost always reflected some sort of purity, the refuse of compromising, the will of keeping the integrity and the honesty of a musical project which purposes were fulfilled regardless of success.

The Strange Flowers have performed countless gigs all over Europe and have shared the stage with psychedelic legends as The Electric Prunes, The Fuzztones, The Prime Movers, making them known as one of the most remarkable acts of modern psychedelic rock, also thanks to their videoshows.

http://www.aural-innovations.com/issues/issue17/salaman2.html wrote:In a nutshell, this is a killer set of improvisational psychedelia with heavy doses of space drone when the band goes electric. "Vessel Is Vacant" and "Minutia Divine" are very cool acoustic tunes with the former featuring Eastern ragas that fill the air and sweep through your brain. Acoustic guitar and dulcimer trip along with tribal clay hand drums for a peaceful paisley colored journey. And Sean's vocals on "Minutia Divine" give the music a strong 60's flavor that I enjoyed.