Magic Castles • Hey Alright • 2026

 

Magic Castles are back with new album ‘Realized’, a set of lush psych-rock reveries from Minneapolis songwriter Jason Edmonds, blending late-60s folk-rock warmth with shoegaze shimmer. Newly signed to Fuzz Club, ‘Realized’ takes Magic Castles’ music to a newfound level of clarity, whilst still retaining that same, long-harboured analogue warmth only made possible through an array of vintage amps, guitars and transistor organs. Released April 24th 2026, ‘Realized’ consists of nine dreamlike, melody-led trips that unfold in waves. Equal parts hazy nostalgia and widescreen modern psychedelia, centring dreamy, heavily-layered arrangements and floating vocal harmonies.

The Ivies • Ego • 2023

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Wielding its multifaceted influences like a Swiss army knife, The Ivies’ debut EP

is ‘more prog than most psych bands, more psych than most prog bands’ –

cementing them as unique in their musical execution. Crescendoing into

existence, the trio humbly show off their skills as writers, with intricate guitar

work and melodies that echo both The Beatles and Black Country, New Road.

The band explores more sonic possibilities than ever before while the songs stay,

at their core, genuinely great. Tracked over four days at Liverpool’s Material

Studios, the record sets elements of Shakespeare and Dostoevsky to a progressive and layered instrumentation, culminating in an apocalyptic finish, after tales of

helplessness, jealousy and anxiety.

The Peacers "Irish Suit" 2021

Lo-fi psych veteran Mike Donovan’s current project the Peacers will return this March with a new album called Blexxed Rec. It’s Donovan’s first LP since 2018’s solo effort How To Get Your Record Played In Shops and the first Peacers joint since 2017’s Introducing The Crimsmen (though last year Drag City also released a demo collection from his former project Sic Alps).

POPULATION II • À la Ô Terre • 2020

The first album by Montreal psychedelic explorers Population II sounds like transmissions from various locales in outer space, the trio recording and transmitting the drifting nothingness of endless expanses punctuated by the impact of comets, the blinding flash of exploding stars, and the beauty of distant galaxies. Singing drummer Pierre-Luc Gratton, guitarist/organist Tristan Lacombe, and bassist Sébastien Provençal are well versed in all forms of psychedelia, and it wouldn’t be surprising to find out they had impressive collections of jazz and prog records at home too. 

 

Monster Rally • Castaways Vol. 1 • 2020

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Castaways Vol. 1 presents a collection of four EPs that have never appeared on vinyl previously, including Sunflower, Psychic, Flight to the Jungle, and Starlight. The Double LP also includes a previously unreleased bonus track for each EP, culled from the original sessions.

LEK • On and On • 2020

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"intelligent and sophisticated rock album" ... Squidco
"intelligently gripping rock music… a psychedelically wild listen"… URB
"monstrous slab of psychedelic rock" ... Aural Innovations

Elephant Stone • We Cry For Harmonia • 2020

"If one were to qualify the work of Elephant Stone, the first adjective would undoubtedly be "experimental". The Montreal band is already on its fourth album, with the release of Ship of Fools. Yet the audacity and talent of these three Canadian boys continues to amaze us." ★★★★
- Rolling Stone France

Debuting a decade ago, the Polaris Music Prize-nominated psych-pop creation of Rishi Dhir (vox, bass, sitar) and long-time collaborators Miles Dupire (drums) have released five critically-acclaimed albums and toured extensively throughout North America and Europe. As a highly-regarded sitar player, Dhir has also collaborated with indie-rock icons (Beck) and legendary cult bands (The Brian Jonestown Massacre). 

The Orange Kyte • Infinity Rope • 2019

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"A solid blend of jangly psych-pop and energetic garage-rock" – KEXP

"Get fully dosed with swirly, layered psychedelic rock reliably soaked in reverb. Pure fun!" – Bandcamp

"A full-on immersive psychoramic sound that fizzes, fuzzes and fragments within shimmering pools of vividly colourful mind-expanding kaleidoscopia" – Backseat Mafia

“If Liam Gallagher inseminated White Fence, Darker My Love and Dandy Warhols while licking LSD flavored wallpaper, this Orange Kyte full length is the record that their children would make” – It's Psychedelic Baby Magazine

Eil Marchini • The River • 2019

'Extraordinary, psychedelic masterpiece' - Vents Mag

'A true songwriter who simply wishes to transmit his wisdom to the world' - Happy Mag

With guitarists like Jimi Hendrix and John Frusciante as inspirations you’d expect a virtuoso musician and that’s exactly what you get with Eil Marchini – a maverick artist who excels at combining the very best musicianship with an unbridled talent and expertise for presenting it in endlessly fascinating new ways. Not allowing himself to be constrained by fitting into a genre, Eil flits between making atmospheric electronic and country with absolute ease.

La Femme - L'Hawaïenne - 2019

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"The first track, titled "Runway," included lyrics that described the role of models and was recorded in Los Angeles last December." -VOGUE PARIS

"It’s hard to imagine a more French version of a rock’n’roll band than La Femme..." -The Guardian

"A tripped-out travelogue" -BrooklynVegan

"hypnotic, psychedelic surf-rock..." - FLAUNT

"psychedelia electro-punk: heavy on synths and drum beats, with a quivering surf guitar that keeps things light." -Interview Magazine

Chatham Rise - Meadowsweet - 2018

 A distinctive presentation of lucid dreaming delivered with psychedelic splendor, defining a journey that while earthbound on this outing, will have listeners returning again and again for these nocturnal slumbers where sound is made up of colours, and the colours go on about defining and redefining an organic pastoral reflection that washes and ebbs effortlessly, filled with bewildering slow motion luscious intoxication. - Jenell Kesler

Grimm Grimm - Cliffhanger - 2018

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At its most abstract Cliffhanger is a sonic soundscape evocative of the soundtrack music of a 1960's John Frankenheimer thriller, these are set in contrast with touching and expansive minimal acoustic ballads included here. Still Smiling', 'Final World War' and Yamanoha's cover of The Misfit’s 'Hybrid Movement' are highlights on an LP which is both nostalgic and contemporary in equal measure. 

-Theo Darton-Moore 

Ongakubaka Records - Psychosphere: Vol. 1 - 2018

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VACATIONS - Changes - 2018

awesome release… slacker at 2018's best….

Popkiss - TBTCI meets Sarah Recs. - 2018

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In this crazy and aggressive world in which we live today, we necessary need more and more love, a little love, love for life, love for people, love, simply love. 

And with this feeling that TBTCI and all the wonderful bands present in this project, honor first, the superb and seminal record labeel, Sarah Records, and all the wonderful bands that were part of the cast and its history, bands that live in our heart! 

And second, we all want to spread love from the beginning of this new year until the last second of 2018. 

Monster Rally - Sunny Sloth - 2017

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Inspired by the sounds, visuals, and animals of a half-century's worth of travel and nature documentaries, Flowering Jungle acts as a companion piece to exploring new and exotic landscapes, wildlife, and communities. The album's artwork mirrors this concept by featuring portraits of jungle birds in flower-adorned 'nests' overtop an abstracted flag of The Flowering Jungle

CLUSTERSUN - Surfacing To Breathe - 2017

Sound explosions, loaded with shoegaze reverb, soundscapes, psychedelic atmospheres and space dilations... It's no surprise that My Bloody Valentine, Ride and Slowdive easily come to mind when listening to Clustersun – Rolling Stone

Ethereal enjoyment... British early 80’s postpunk/60s soft psych hybrid, somewhere between “Faith” Cure and early 4AD catalog bands, with a moody sheen from Procol Harum, Moody Blues and post-Syd Barrett Pink Floyd – Big Takeover Magazine

Earthen Sea - An Act of Love - 2017

ambient smooth with the throb of electonica…

Sun Dagger - Invisible World - 2016

Melt into your day with this psych jam band… Spacey Saturday awaits!

Ear-busting instrumental loud rockers from New Haven, CT. These masters of reality kick out the fractal vibes, tunneling from slow burn to freak out with the incense burning at both ends. For those who have ever been experienced.

of Montreal - Innocence Reaches - 2016

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The most immediate surprise is the sound. Innocence Reaches is touched by contemporary electronica, indie pop, and EDM. For the first time in his career, Barnes tuned into now. "Forever I've been detached from current music," he says. "I got into this bubble of only being in some other time period. I came up picking apart the Beach Boys, The Beatles, and symphonic pieces. But last year, I was hearing Jack Ü, Chairlift, Arca, and others, thinking about low end and sound collage. It was an extra layer to geek out on."