psych

Thanks to Yumi Zouma for the heads up this afternoon on their "new favourite band", Paris' Juniore, and their elegant, haunting '60s French pop-noir vibes, which have been described as sounding like "...Françoise Hardy met le pied dans un western spaghetti... Read More ...

Hazy, downcast psych from Dallas group Eyes, Wings, & Many Other Things' Rural Pain cassette, out now on Pour le Corps:

The world's greatest reissue label continues to unearth unreal lost gems, this time in the form of the first ever reissue of the amazing complete recordings from Lee Hazlewood's '60s girl group, Detroit's Honey Ltd., remastered from the original mono tapes...

The man formerly known as Run DMT follows up one of the best records of 2011 with an immersive collection of stellar throwback psych-pop jams created under his latest guise/questionable drug pun, Salvia Plath. This thing ranges from lovely pastoral folk to sunny, harmony-drenched '60s pop to much darker, subtly demented psychedelia; "House of Leaves" crosses paths with all three... Read

Here's another glorious track from Melbourne's Beaches, taken from the group's excellent forthcoming LP She Beats. The sunny, infectious, practically jangly "Send Them Away" isn't quite the swirling, all-encompassing psychedelic squall that is lead single "Distance," but it works perfectly as sort of a charming, almost triumphant little break in the clouds...

New Richard Law-directed video from Kyoto psych-pop weirdos Hotel Mexico, for their woozy, Ariel Pink-indebted new single "A.I. in Dreams," taken from the band's new record Her Decorated Post Love (listen to the whole thing on Spotify).

The Austin Psych Fest recently announced a stellar first round of bands for next year's fest, featuring the likes of Deerhunter, Clinic, Warpaint, Boris, Tinariwen, DIIV, King Khan & BBQ Show, White Fence + many more at an absolutely beautiful venue in Austin in April 2013...

We posted up a brief preview of this one the other day, and now chaz2sexy has dropped both sides from his new Les Sins 7", due later this month ("out in a weekish") on Caribou's JIAOLONG label: