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Already found a would-be gem for 2017.

Chilled out math/progressive rock from UK.

You Break, You Buy - Don't Join The Circus

Written by 3rdWorld on 29.12.2016 at 18:55

Already found a would-be gem for 2017.

Thanks. I can always count on you

Progressive / alternative / psychedelic with members of Mastodon, QOTSA, At The Drive-in

Progressive / alternative rock

Written by Paz on 29.12.2016 at 20:45

Thanks. I can always count on you

Lol, I'll try my best but you guys are the pro.

Alt rock / post-rock, final album

Avantgarde / Experimental

Super great sounding "drone" / later Earth worship.

Richly textured dark ambient and drone. Nice crackly analogue feel to it.



And eerie jazz influenced ambient, much more experimental sounding but also very nice.

Fantastically peculiar psychedelia from Russia. It's kind of cosmic but to be honest describing it is fairly difficult. It's really great though.

Nice.

*furtively adds to the list*

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Retro synthy stuff. Sounds promising from the one track out.

New project with Aidan Baker (of Nadja) on guitars. Very cool and relaxing ambient post-rock. Particularly like the bass on this.

Enormously fun and somewhat psychedelic instrumental surf punk. Love it.

Fantastic female-led noise outfit Pharmakon has a new record coming out. Power electronics feedback and abrasive textures abound no doubt.



Industrial techno. Pretty cool apocalypse evoking atmosphere, but an apocalypse you can boogie to.



Moody dungeon synth / dark ambient.



Cool tape music. Abstract crackly ambient with looped melodies and sounds played in the background. Quite relaxing.

I clearly haven't been keeping up with Skullflower in recent years. Seems like he's had dozens of non-album / EP releases. This is the one from this year. Mind twisting psychedelic, non-abrasive noise texturing. Really quite good actually.

And this time an upcoming full length from Skullflower. More psychedelic noise going by the two tracks.

Excellent riff-tastic desert/hard rock for fans of QOTSA.

Deaf Radio - Alarm

New Slowdive single. I can't say I'm overly familiar with them but considering this is their first piece of music in 22 years I'm guessing this is significant news for many.



And new ambient drone album from avant-garde master William Basinski. Sounds quite fantastic to me.




Exceptional sounding instrumental, experimental hip-hop. Just an incredible gamut of sound collage variety.



Fun psychedelic rock coming out next month.

Written by Guest on 23.01.2017 at 21:24

New Slowdive single. I can't say I'm overly familiar with them but considering this is their first piece of music in 22 years I'm guessing this is significant news for many.

Disappointingly straightforward. Competent dream pop for sure, but not what made them special in my mind.

Written by IronAngel on 25.01.2017 at 12:28

Disappointingly straightforward. Competent dream pop for sure, but not what made them special in my mind.

I didn't actually listen to the whole thing myself. Probably a pretty different landscape from when they last made music I guess.

Written by Guest on 25.01.2017 at 12:42

I didn't actually listen to the whole thing myself. Probably a pretty different landscape from when they last made music I guess.

Yeah. This is a throwback to their first and second albums (i.e. bogstandard dream pop/light shoegaze), but their third and latest album Pygmalion had already moved past that into this unique ambient pop/postrock territory that had more to do with Bark Psychosis and Talk Talk than with My Bloody Valentine. I genuinely think Pygmalion is one of the best albums of the 90s, whereas the first two are just good, occasionally great (their best singles are really catchy) but hardly singular.

Very chilled out/retro sounding instrumental hip hop.

Damu The Fudgemunk - Vignettes



A new Blown Out album for your fix of psychedelic/space rock.

Blown Out - Superior Venus

Fun lo-fi power electronics/post punk with the bassiest bassy bass:

Anwar Sadat - Ersatz Living

Wicked power noise / rhythmic noise. Haven't listened to something of this genre for years, and this is a damn fine addition to it.

Some psychedelic shoegaze/dreampop with female vocals:

The Stargazer Lillies - Part Time Punk Sessions

Weird ass horror themed (?) experimental metal/wood music.

Evil Sword - An Eerie Fire Eats The Brain

Two new Diamanda Galas tracks coming up. Not her darkest stuff by any means by vocally it's off the scale as one would expect.






New Moon Duo album coming out (2 it seems in fact). Was a huge fan of their 2015 release so I suspect this will be a highlight of psychedelic rock this year.