Psychedelic Horseshit

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3...according to our Dave on Fri 13 May, 2011.

Yikes! Ive got something to review from this year, which is all well and good but my brain is now locked into 1940s/1950s mode thus rendering all modern music a veritable hotchpotch of bleeps and squeals. God knows what would happen if I heard a Van Halen guitar solo. I'd probably ingest myself. So, dear readers, you are gonna have to bear with me on this one. The new full length album from Psychedelic Horseshit is a lo-fi smorgasbord of experimental songs with an undercurrent of knowing humour and bittersweet melodies. It reminds me of Fergus & Geronimo or Times New Viking or summat. It's inexpensive-sounding drum machines and 4 track recording techniques all the way on this one. Some of it actually sounds quite sweeping and, dare I say it...grandiose. The songs are pretty strong too. Some lollop around on a John Shuttleworth style drum loop, while others such as the drum circle (ewww!!) led "Another Side" showcase their dirty hippie side. You can almost smell Swampy from here. Some of the songs have a sloppy almost GBV feel, such as the sweet "French Countryside". All in all though it's a very varied and strangely catchy album with lots of moments that will make your ear holes flap about the place. Comes with a download code that is a gateway into the body of Christopher Cross.

· Brand new album by Ohio’s Psychedelic Horseshit -
bustling, melted outsider pop songs borne from a super
hip underground scene.

· The band featured in a 2008 MTV news documentary on
their local Columbus, Ohio scene.

· Psychedelic Horseshit have been approved by Animal
Collective, amongst other recognisable names and peers.

· Previous records have had a great press response, with
Vice, The Times, Pitchfork, Drowned in Sound, NME all
featuring the band.

· Previous tourmates have included Times New Viking,
Yeasayer and Sic Alps.

· Psychedelic Horseshit will be touring in UK and Europe
around the album’s release.

· A further album, compiling the best of their previous
material, will be released by FatCat later in the year.

· Prior to their FatCat signing, the band had released music
on the highly respected US labels Siltbreeze and Woodsist.

· “‘Laced’ captures their perma-fried soundscapes in a
clearer lens, at times even feeling like a dance record… I
expect ‘Laced’ to be one of the year’s most talked about
albums” - Impose; “The sound of an angry Mark E Smith
stripping wallpaper with a distortion pedal” - The Times;
“The most heart-poundingly great racket since that My
Bloody Valentine covers record Comets On Fire never
made” - Vice.