Rolling Psych/Drone/Freak Thread 2025

Because it's out there, and is loud and weird.

yes, and like i said, i'm opening for my pals tonight. come on by!

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Hailing from the misty grottos and orchards of Western Massachusetts, Stella Kola weave haunting ballads that dig deep into the psychedelic-folk tradition while shapeshifting into captivating new forms. Initially a duo formed in 2019 as a songwriting project between poet/vocalist Beverly Ketch and musician Robert Thomas (founding member of the long running improvisational group Sunburned Hand of the Man), the project steadily swelled to a sextet. The lineup now consists of Ketch on vocals, Thomas on acoustic guitar, Wednesday Knudsen on flute & sax, Jen Gelineau on viola, Jeremy Pisani on guitar & synth and Jim Bliss on bass.

Cosmic Ray will be opening for Stella Kola. Cosmic Ray is a solo project of Shannon Ketch, also of Sunburned Hand of the Man and Animal Piss, It's Everywhere (APIE). Influenced by John Cage's chance operation he creates an electro-acoustic landscape incorporating synthesizer and field samples.

i will be reading the latest installment in my record store saga.

haha, show is cancelled due to illness. ah, the life of a touring poet....

it will happen again soon and you can all get in the car and come.

the perils of your lead singer working in a preschool.

Gotta lead a jam session, man.

i definitely want to put on some shows this year. the venue next door has a basement bar space that they never use and i'm thinking me and maria on the decks and some noise/psych action from all the talent nearby is just what the doctor ordered.

https://legendarypinkdots1.bandcamp.com/album/so-lonely-in-heaven-2

NEVER HEARD OF oh wait

so excited! my pal willie lane has a new album out and he's coming by tomorrow to drop some off at the store. here's what my pal sunburned rob wrote about it:

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I'm honored to have played some bass on the astounding new Willie Lane album "BOBCAT TURNAROUND". I think this is Wille's 5th album & the 4th he's self released on his CORD-ART label. (There was a beautiful duo LP with @pigeonsband on @feedingtuberecords_rozztoxart in 2020 as well). His earlier work was mainly predicated on instrumental fingerpicking & slide adventures & mutations of the Volk/Blues tradition but here Willie debuts vocals & lyrics upon nearly conventional song structures. For me, the songs evoke a specific aspect of the SF 60's scene -Moby Grape, Skip Spence, Kak, Blue Cheer circa "Oh! Pleasant Hope". It's also very complimentary to the fantastic new archival release of obscure bay area band Weird Herald that @guerssen is coincidentally releasing almost simultaneously. Besides a bit of my bass & drums from Ryan Jewell on 2 tracks, everything else is a big stack of Willie's guitars, voices, bass & drums writhing in uncanny layers of bleary beauty. His vocals evoke an unlikely but uber-charming hybrid of Syd Barrett & J. Mascis to my ears & serve to steer the ship throughout. Much of this could easily pass for some fab lost acetate from '72 that Nigel Cross would release on Shagrat or a truly dazed anomaly from SST circa '87. (This is a long way of saying that this will appeal to the beardiest of record collectors). The glorious paste on sleeve art will cast a spell on you as the album slowly unfolds from the speakers. This one sounds somewhat "normal" at first but subtly shape shifts into an ultra drifted zone.. it's like realizing the mimosa you've been nursing was laced with something & now the stars are tap dancing in the sky, but i digress. Act fast, limited to 350 numbered copies - available from the man himself via the CORD-ART blogspot, Bandcamp & a few enlightened U.S. shops.

great thread

https://bsky.app/profile/andrewmale.bsky.social/post/3likevptsq22i

that is a perfect example of why i never went on twitter and stuck to ilx. can't stand scrolling past the original post over and over to get new information.

Thanks for the heads up on that Willie Lane, scott. Sounds killer!

it's so good. was almost going to bump that tompkins square thread because its equal parts that thread and this thread.

The god Steven R. Smith with another new one:

https://worstward.bandcamp.com/album/anacapa

oh hi

https://artetetra.bandcamp.com/album/crepuscular-elixirs-2

YES ... one of my favorite releases of 2025 so far. i'd never heard the artist's name before.

fantastic
'squrilich stroll' from a few years back is superb btw

liking this a lot

https://obsoletestaircases.bandcamp.com/album/ylem

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Not sure if this exactly fits in this thread, but I just have to shout out the new Population II album, Maintenant jamais. So damn good. I've liked them since Castle Face put out the debut record and really fell for them when I saw them open for Osees a few years ago, but this new album is a level up in every way. Very proggy, but the songs are relatively concise.

https://population2.bandcamp.com/album/maintenant-jamais

Also, check out the cool set of the new songs they played in the middle of a brutalist building's courtyard. It's kind of like the modern Canadian take on Floyd's Pompeii thing, but as if Brady Corbet directed it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=upcejYO2UDo

Not from 2025, but new to me and wasn't sure what thread to drop it in, but this 2009 release by France, Do Den Haag Chuch is blowing my mind this morning. Trio with drums, bass and hurdy-gurdy.

https://standard-in-fi.bandcamp.com/album/do-den-haag-church

With every passing year I become more of a Pat Murano fan

https://decimus.bandcamp.com/album/guitar-soli-vol-1

More stoner rock than psych, but bleed over from the U.S. pol thread, unfortunately.

Members of the Austin, Texas, rock band Lord Buffalo have said that they are canceling a tour of Europe because their drummer, Yamal Said, was detained by agents from United States Customs and Border Protection (CBP). The alleged incident took place on Monday, May 12, when Said “was forcibly removed from [the band’s] flight to Europe” at Dallas Fort Worth International Airport.

According to his bandmates, Yamal Said “is a Mexican citizen and lawful permanent resident of the United States (green card holder).” Last year, in an interview with VoyageAustin, the drummer said that his “family moved to Austin in the late ’80s, after a devastating earthquake hit Mexico City.”

Said “has not been released,” according to his bandmates, but he “has secured the legal representation he needs.” Pitchfork has reached out to CBP’s office of public affairs for comment and more information on the situation.

Ugh, never mind that post. It turns out that wasn’t the full story and was a very disingenuous statement by the band and label, turns out the drummer had a warrant out for his arrest.

My apologies for posting before the whole story was out.