Neo-Psychedelic

Earlier this year The Brian Jonestown Massacre released their twelfth studio album, "Who Killed Sgt. Pepper?", unfortunatelly it didn't make much of a fuzz and still has'nt. I really like this album. I think Anton has done it again. The album contain brilliant songs like Tempo 116.7 (Reaching for Dangerous Levels of Sobriety), This Is the First of Your Last Warning (Icelandic version) and This Is the One Thing We Did Not Want to Have Happen. The album is a lot about big beats and more twisted guitars than you're used to. On the BJM website you find music videos for all the songs of the album, really good videos too. In the video for the song "Lets Go Fucking Mental" there's a small town built in lego with lego-people walking around. An experiment goes wrong and a disease gets out from a laboratory to the streets and everybody dies.




The Brian Jonestown Massacre - Tempo 116.7 (Reaching for Dangerous Levels of Sobriety)



And while we're on the subject of the BJM neo-psychedelia let's talk about bands that sound "a bit" like them.

Rancho Relaxo is a norwegian Neo-Psychedelic/Shoegaze band with a great sound and this year they released their forth album called "New Kind of Orchide". This is an awesome album, it's so damn great that I can't even believe that they are as unknown as they are. This is such good music that it doesn't matter that they've been litsening to The Brian Jonestown a lot. My personal favorite track from the album is "Freuds God, Spaceman". Anyway here's a great video from a great band:



Rancho Relaxo - Plan Your Revolution




One more band I'd like to take up is a band called The Orange Revival, it's a Swedish Neo-Psychedelic/Folk-Rock band who's been merging together for the last year creating soem sweet tunes. They recently went out on a European tour without having a single gig booked when they hit the road, they played acoustic in the streets of big capital cities and more through Europe and earned some gigs inside clubs and such. Here is their latest song, which really doesnt sound anything like BJM but more like The Doors or maby The Velvet Underground.



The Orange Revival - She Couldn't Imagine