THE WALKING WHO | Electrocute The Mannequin

“Walking a careful line between the sounds of Unknown Mortal Orchestra and Deerhunter.” (NME Magazine)

Off the back of having one of the most played independent tracks on Sydney’s FBi Radio last year for their single With Roses, psychedelic rock trio, The Walking Who, have returned with a European-inspired single from the band’s first overseas venture. 

SUNFLOWER BEAN | Tame Impala

“Neo psychedelic for the digital age.”

Recently named this week as the “Best Rock Band of Day 1” at CMJ by NPR’s All Songs Considered and also celebrated by NYLON Magazine as having title track of the week is Brooklyn garage/lo-fi rock duo, Sunflower Bean. 

SANSYOU | The Dilettante

Listeners will remember Washington DC three-piece Sansyou best by their Japanese inspired 2011 EP, When We Become Ghosts, which constructed a post-rock narrative around the photography of ethnologist, Fosco Maraini, of 1960’s Honshu pearl divers. The result was an inherently introspective record laced with ambient post-rock sounds replicating the noises of the submerged and the seafaring with oceanic guitar tones.

THE VICKERS

If history is anything to go by, Italy is repeating its 60’s resurgence of Western-inspired, progressive and psych-rock sounds when it produces acts like The Vickers. The Florence quartet have seasoned themselves with over five years touring independently and with established acts, and releasing two solid albums, as well as being in the process of recording their third.