Current psychedelic music. New releases from Rún, Sun Atoms, Flavor Crystals, The Albinos, Turtle Skull, Psyche Eunevsi, Qway, FVRMN, Urtidsdjur, and Suishou No Fune.
| time | artist | title |
|---|---|---|
| 0:46 | Rún | Terror Moon |
| 8:56 | Sun Atoms | Take This Love |
| 13:54 | Flavor Crystals | Your Dreams are Still With Me |
| 20:59 | The Albinos | Paralyze |
| 24:14 | Turtle Skull | Apathy |
| 28:25 | Psyche Eunevsi | Your Secrets Keep |
| 30:49 | Qway | Crash Landing – Assimilate |
| 39:45 | FVRMN | Parasitic Sympathy II |
| 44:00 | Urtidsdjur | Himlakroppars stämsång |
| 49:38 | Suishou No Fune | Your Tears |
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This episode features a collection of tracks that showcase the wide reach of current psychedelic music. It’s a testament to the genre’s continued vitality that quality, original sounds are emerging from so many different corners of the world, which, in over a hundred episodes now, I’ve tried to highlight.
The episode opens with the driving, atmospheric sounds of Rún from Sligo, Ireland. But this episode is dominated by American groups, mainly because I’m still juiced by a show I saw recently. Shout out to longtime listener Richard Tamaro, who got me to make the trek to Baltimore—not a typical destination for me even though it probably takes me as long to get to downtown DC as it does to get to Baltimore. Richard and I live on opposite sides of the DMV (which, for those of you not privy to Washington DC lingo is the greater DC metro area: that is, the District-Maryland-Virginia), but we met at the last stop on the green line and he drove me up to Metro Gallery in Baltimore to see Sun Atoms and Flavor Crystals. It was the kind of show that makes you want to see more live music. Sun Atoms are from Portland, OR, and Flavor Crystals are from Minneapolis, where I lived for many years. I got a chance to talk to Josh Richardson after the show and it made me realize how much I miss being in Minnesota.
The next set opens the Albinos. Staying in the United States, we move south to Houston, Texas, for The Albinos, who describe themselves as a “noisy Garage Psych band formed in August 2023 in the countryside outside Houston, Texas.” To me their sound is a perfect blend of psychedelic and garage rock. We then move to Australia for Turtle Skull, a band I’ve played before on Turn Me On, Dead Man. Their latest is on Copper Feast and Echodelick, labels that are doing great work. Also from Australia is Psyche Eunevsi. Psyche Eunevsi is the project of Tom Agapitos, a Greek-Australian multi-instrumentalist based in Brisbane. The last American band in the playlist is Qway from Ph Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Qway describes themselves as a progressive fusion band, and their music often features a heavy and forward-thinking approach to both composition and improvisation, pushing the boundaries of the genre.
The last set features two bands from Tokyo, FVRMN and Suishou No Fune. FVRMN draws heavily from punk but displays significant psychedelic undertones. Suishou No Fune is a long-standing fixture in the Japanese psychedelic scene, known for their floating and dreamy sound often built around intricate twin guitar work and a deeply poetic sensibility. Their music frequently explores themes of spirit, light, darkness, and the human condition. Both FVRMN and Suishou No Fune explores themes of loss and remembrance. In between we’ll hear the progressive folk of the Swedish band Urtidsjur from Uppsala.
The theme of this episode is being in traffic, which has proven to be the greatest change in my life in recent months. Because of a strict return to office policy, I now spend a considerable amount of time on the beltway in traffic. Fortunately I have plenty to listen to during those times.
#Alternative #Doom #Experimental #PaganFolk #Psychedelic #TripHop
An experimental Irish trio that blends folk, synth, drone, noise, and heavy grooves into a dark, ethereal, and transcendent mix of long-form explorations and vignettes.
TMODM: What had the strongest influence on Rún (the album)?
Diarmuid: The moon probably had the single biggest influence LOL, but in terms of musical influence our sky is always full of innumerable stars, a total embarrassment of riches. Both Rian and Tara would be very much rooted in the present moment and not at all concerned with context or history while creating. I tend to nurture musical seeds and try to grow them in our greenhouse. Some of those seeds as well as general inspirations and influenzas would include Pearls Before Swine ‘Balaklava’; John Zorn ‘Absinthe’; Pharaoh Sanders ‘Jewels of Thought’; Abul Mogard (S/T); Coil ‘Moon’s Milk’; Om ‘Variations on a Theme’; Comte de Lautreamont ‘Maldoror’; Quay Bros ‘In Absentia’;
TMODM: What record(s) changed your lives?
Rún: Again, an explosive question LOL. Too many revolutions.
Rian: ‘Madvillainy’ by Madvillain
I think this is the epitome of an adventurous flow-state and a perfect pairing in MF Doom and Madlib. It’s filled with a sense of playful discovery from end to end and it’s my favourite example of how sampling recordings from different eras can reveal bizarre moodscapes never conceived in their inception. It’s also hilarious. It compels me to get up and start making things.
Tara: ‘This was a hard question to limit to one album- I grew up in a house that forbade pop music – the accepted backdrop was mostly jazz and classical so when I was unleashed at 14 to the Willie Clancy music festival in Milltown Malbay I skipped a lot of the daily trad workshops trading them in for damp sessions in the sand-dunes with a small Walkman- split headphones, ‘Solo in soho; (Phil Lynott), ‘Black Rose’ – (Thin Lizzy) along with a salty taste of first love. Phil Lynott’ts voice- the way it curled around his melodies and the provocation of the lyrics sent me so far away from the middle of the stone desert where I grew up, and dangled the promise of being other than the barren place that had made me. The freedom of other ways of being and seeing. Heady and intoxicating’.
Diarmuid:’ The day I heard Black Sabbath’s Greatest Hits, at thirteen years old, on a cassette that was so cheap it only survived two plays, I became a teenager. The course of my life was more or less mapped out from that point, my blood was replaced with liquid metal which rendered me invincible and somewhat obtuse.’
TMODM: What’s next for you?
Rún: We’ve launched into a new round of creative action, looking for the same ‘surprise’ factor that made the album so exciting to make. So far it’s been surprising and sometimes unnerving. Some references would include the dark, spooky end of English prog; Jodorowsky’s ‘Holy Mountain’; The source material of the Carmina Burana; the youthful work of Franco Battiato; minimalist rock; maximalist rock; various aspects of the Irish vocal tradition, the usual melting pot!
#DarkWave #Krautrock #PostModernPop #Psychedelic #Shoegaze
Sun Atoms is a project from Portland, Oregon’s Peter Holmström (The Dandy Warhols, Pete International Airport) and Jsun Atoms (The Upsidedown, Daydream Machine) along with several other seasoned professional musicians. The band channels luminary influences Leonard Cohen, The Cure, Moon Duo and Nick Cave in a resulting amalgamation that combines psychedelic, dark wave and post modern-pop. The band’s debut album Let There Be Light was produced by Peter Holmström and mixed by Stephen Street (Blur, The Smiths, New Order). Other artists featured on the album include Alex Maas (The Black Angels), Jasno Swarez (The Vandelles), Greg Williams (Sheryl Crow, Blitzen Trapper) and others. Sun Atoms bends and blends song to song through luminary influences Leonard Cohen, The Cure, Moon Duo and Nick Cave in a resulting amalgamation that combines psychedelic, dark wave and post modern-pop. On Little Cloud Records.
TMODM: What had the strongest influence on Everything Forever?
Sun Atoms: Everything Forever’s biggest influences are Bowie, Mary Chain, Massive Attack, & The Cure.
TMODM: What record(s) changed your lives?
Sun Atoms: I’d say David Bowie Hunky Dory, Jesus & Mary Chain Darklands, Bob Dylan Blood on the Tracks, & The Cure Disintegration changed our lives.
TMODM: What’s next for you?
Sun Atoms: Next for us are these shows:
#Ambient #DreamPop #Experimental #IndieRock #Krautrock #Psych #Psychedelic #Shoegaze #SpaceRock
Mpls guitar band creating head music of the highest order. Josh Richardson (voc/gtr) Nat Stensland (bass IV) Jon Menke (drums) Vince Caro (gtr) Ethereal mindbenders.
Flavor Crystals are a four piece space rock based in Minneapolis, MN. Since releasing their debut album On Plastic (mpls ltd 2005), Flavor Crystals have continued to create engagingly floaty psych rock. Their music evokes ’60s psychedelia, ’70s kraut/prog, ’80s kiwi, and ’90s shoegaze/indie in equal measures, while always retaining their distinct, wobbly vibe. Their second album was recorded with Kramer (Bongwater, Galaxie 500, Low) and released as Ambergris (mpls ltd 2007, Second Shimmy/Cargo 2008).
After being invited by the Brian Jonestown Massacre, Flavor Crystals accompanied them on their 2009 US Tour, playing 18 theatres and clubs across the country. Upon returning, Flavor Crystals holed up to create their definitive musical statement. After two years of continuous recording, capturing spontaneous experiments and sprawling drones, the results were released as the new album, Three, in May 2012. A double LP, The Shiver of the Flavor Crystals, followed in fall 2015.
Flavor Crystals converged at Pachyderm Studios to create “Gone Six” capturing their hypnotic group chemistry with clarity and purpose.
Shaped by sudden losses, surprise findings, unwanted fires and new hearts. Glued together with musical trust.
Their sixth LP features a cohesive collection of focused songs, presented with wide range vision, set in an expansive sonic landscape.
#Alternative #GaragePsych #GarageRock #Neopsychedelia #PsychedelicRock #Shoegaze
The Albinos are a Noisy Garage Psych band formed in August 2023 in the countryside outside Houston, Texas.
Enabilizer is the second full-length album from The Albinos. It’s a focused and emotionally direct record that examines the space between belief and doubt—what it means to hold on to ideals in a world that often doesn’t reflect them. The songs explore themes of connection, disillusionment, and the fragile narratives people use to make sense of things.
Sonically, the album moves fluidly between stripped-down garage rock and layered psychedelic arrangements. Built on live, organic instrumentation and a minimal production approach, the sound is raw but intentional—combining driving rhythms, textured guitars, and unpolished vocal performances to create something that feels both grounded and expansive.
Formed in the countryside outside of Houston, The Albinos have spent the past few years refining their sound, drawing on psych and garage traditions while keeping their songwriting emotionally grounded. Enabilizer marks a step forward for the band—more confident, more cohesive, and more willing to lean into discomfort in search of something honest.
TMODM: What had the biggest influence on Enabilizer?
The Albinos: Real-world relationships and their complex peculiarities. People can experience such highs and such powerfully touching moments of connection with each other, but also struggle to coexist day to day when language alone doesn’t seem to be enough to communicate. These songs come from there. As a kind of metaphoric soundtrack to the highs and lows of love, adulation, adversity, and loss. Also Black Sabbath.
TMODM: What were the recording sessions like?
The Albinos: Fun. Satisfying. Sweaty. Texas is hotter when you’re playing rock and roll. Feels good when you connect with a song and you have a personal moment with it. Like being truly understood. So we try to chase that down. The funnest songs are the ones that seem to be given to you from somewhere outside of yourself. Gifts. So, you not only get to connect with yourself while making music, but also with the soul of the Earth sometimes. And that’s pretty bitchin.
TMODM: How did you do the visuals for the “Paralyze” video? They’re really cool and I was wondering if you used an old school approach or if they are some sort of digital technology.
The Abinos: The Director did that with oil paint and water. 100% tactile and real. I guess the one digital aspect is the ability to shoot it so close up. I love the old oil drop stuff. The Love Street Light Circus Feel Good Machine from Houston was big into those old visuals in the 60s. We felt that this was similar, but with a different twist.
TMODM: What’s next for you?
The Albinos: We’re already well into recording the next release. Our goal has always been to release two albums in one year, but recording them always takes twice as long as it should. Everyone in the band is lazy and irresponsible, except me. Our next one may only be an EP
#Alternative #Fuzz #HeavyPsych #IndieRock #IndieRock #PsychPop #PsychRock #Psychedelic #PsychedelicRock #Stoner #StonerRock
Turtle Skull are a four-piece from the Australian East Coast serving a monolithic dose of psych-doom-pop. They’ve honed an experiential blend of warm melodies and ethereal vocal harmonies over cell-bursting riffs, motorik beats, and warbling drone.
Turtle Skull is:
Julian Frese – Bass guitar
Ally Gradon – Vocals, synths
Charlie Gradon – Vocals, drums
Dean McLeod – Vocals, guitars
All songs written by Turtle Skull
Lyrics by Charlie Gradon and Dean McLeod
TMODM: What had the strongest influence on Being Here?
Turtle Skull: Coming out of recording and releasing Monoliths in 2020 we came straight into covid times. So that period influenced us. Spent a lot of time thinking about the world! Listened to a lot of music in that time. All 4 of us moved to different places. there’s a lot of existentialism on that record. I spent a lot of time looking at the stars and wondering what’s out there. Hence the morbid fascination of ‘Being Here’, as per the lyrics in the title track
TMODM: What record(s) changed your lives
Turtle Skull: OMG so many. I’l speak for me (Dean). Aqualung – Jethro Tull, Young Gifted and Black – Aretha Franklin, In The Future – Black Mountain, God Is Good – Om, 4 – Dungen…
TMODM: What’s next for you.
Turtle Skull: Album launch tour through July and August over in here in Australia. More shows to be announced soon for the second half of 2025. We are also working on album 4! Currently writing and demoing. The next one will be much quicker. Hopefully next year!
#Experimental #Punk #Experimental #GaragePsych #Lo-Fi #Neopsychedelia #PsychedelicRock #RockInOppositon #Zeuhl
Psyche Eunevsi is the project of Tom Agapitos, a Greek-Australian multi instrumentalist based in Brisbane. Rooted in lo-fi, psychedelia and raw emotional energy, Tom draws inspiration from cult icons like The Brian Jonestown Massacre, Spacemen 3, Sonic Youth, etc. And Sound reminiscences of cult bands like Caravan, The West Pop Art Experimental Band, and more…
Shadows in Slow Motion is dreamy textures, vintage tones, tape-like warmth, human imperfections left in on purpose. A hypnotic garage psych bomb, and slightly off-kilter — exactly the way they’re meant to be.
“I don’t know why I love these bands so much — maybe it’s because they just don’t give a fuck and play with feel. That looseness, that realness… that’s what inspires me.”
TMODM: What had the strongest influence on Shadows In Slow Motion?
Psyche Eunevsi: One of my biggest influences is definitely The Brian Jonestown Massacre. I’ve always loved their attitude — the rawness, the emotion, the imperfections that make everything feel more real. Spacemen 3 and Mazzy Star have also been huge influences on my songwriting, especially in terms of mood and atmosphere.
TMODM: What record(s) changed your life?
Psyche Eunevsi: There are so many albums that have shaped me, but a few that really changed the way I think about music would be:
Bravery, Repetition & Noise – The Brian Jonestown Massacre
Pink Flag – Wire
Daydream Nation – Sonic Youth
Those records taught me that music doesn’t have to follow any rules. What matters most is making something honest — staying true to yourself, even if it doesn’t sound like what everyone else is doing.
TMODM: What’s next for you?
Psyche Eunevsi: What’s next for me is my first full-length album — and I’m really excited about it. After putting out my debut EP (Shadows In Slow Motion), I felt super motivated to push further, not just in the songwriting but in the overall sound. I’ve invested in analog gear — a tape recorder, a vintage mic — and I’m trying to make something more cohesive, more emotional, and more raw.
#Electronica #ProgRock #Fusion #PsychedelicRock
Eastern Psych Rock from Philadelphia
TMODM: What had the strongest influence on solidus?
Qway: It’s hard to pin down the one strongest influence for solidus because the three of us each add our own ideas and feelings at the time to each song but overall solidus explores the idea of duplicity. Each of the main songs is an exploration of the idea that there are two sides to each coin, story, emotion, and physical force. They are denoted by two names with a slash separating them. This was the motive behind the artwork: * / * and the name “solidus.” Multiplicities naturally drive music that contains instruments such as Saz, synthesizers, sample pads, and traditional rock instrumentation but they also drive our natural universe.
TMODM: What record changed your life?
Qway: I think we all sort of grew up with a love for 90’s and 2000’s post rock and indie like Morphine or Sigur Ros but when we formed this band and started thinking about what albums we really dug a few stand out: Sven Wunder’s Eastern Flowers, Altin Gun’s Gece, Amgala Temple’s Invisible Airships, Eiving Aarset’s Ie, King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard’s 10,000 albums (haha), Tigran Hamasyan’s Mockroot, Glass Beam’s Mirage, and Selda Bağcan’s Dost Merhaba.
TMODM: What’s next for you?
Qway: We’re playing a bunch of great shows this summer and fall including the Strange Soiree festival in PA, Silk City in Philly on July 3rd, and Ripple Ray’s in Richmond, VA on the 12th of July. We’re back to writing as well and are really excited to be playing some of our unreleased tunes at shows, refining them, until we get back in the studio to cut the next record.
#Alternative #Punk #Alternative #IndieRock #Power
Tokyo’s relentless alternative punk force FVRMN returns with their fifth studio album. A raw, sprawling journey through inner turbulence and rebirth.
Forged amid lead songwriter J HOLMES’ recent battles with seizures, SUICIDES confronts metaphysical chaos, resilience, and the ghosts we carry. Monstrous production meets unflinching emotion.
J Holmes : guitar, vocals
Daniel Gardner : bass guitar
Mario Rubalcaba : drums
STARRING LEGENDARY GUESTS:
– Mario Rubalcaba (Earthless, OFF!)
– Chris McQueen (Snarky Puppy)
– Leo Abrahams (Brian Eno, Florence + The Machine)
– Sean Husick (Milemarker)
TMODM: What has had the strongest influence on your music?
FVRMN: In many ways, film has been one of the strongest influences on my music. I like music that sounds somewhat cinematic and whose lyrics tend to have an obscure hook that pulls the listener into a strange rusty world. Musically, I’ve been greatly influence by Hüsker Dü, Replacements, as well as psychedelic music, garage rock, and even atmospheric bands from the 90’s UK scene.
TMODM: What were the recording sessions like:
FVRMN: The recording sessions for SUICIDES were fairly smooth and fun. It’s always exciting to see how much growth a song can produce from the initial demos to the finished sound. These new songs are big, bright and full of dynamic power. I’m quite pleased.
TMODM: What’s next for you?
FVRMN: I hope to tour overseas a bit in 2026 to help promote the album. I also have a new solo album coming out this year called Honeyhorse on a Japanese label which is also a thrill. Really thankful to have this new music out and there is a chance that it will find the proper heads of those who feel it.
#SwedishFolkRock #DesertRock #Krautrock #Krautrock #PsychedelicRock #Scandirock #SpaceRock #StonerRock #SvenskProgg #SwedishFolkMusic
Urtidsdjur is from Uppsala, Sweden
TMODM: What had the strongest influence on Fågelsånger?
Urtidsdjur: We drew a lot of inspiration from 70s Swedish prog, folk music, and psychedelic rock. This album is more eclectic than our debut, as we tried to explore new versions of our sound, almost stretching out to different genres, but at the same time we tried to keep the album coherent through tracks that bind the album together, and through recurring use of some sounds. A lot of the album grew organically, through jam sessions that slowly turned into songs. At a later stage of the process we also invited guest musicians to bring new colors: nyckelharpa, pedal steel, flute, Moog… the blend shaped the character of the whole record.
TMODM: What record(s) changed your lives?
Urtidsdjur: We decided to answer with one each:
Emil: Black Sabbath – Master of reality.
I bought this record at a flea market when I was 13 years old. I hadn’t listened to Black Sabbath before except for the Sabbath riffs that my guitar teacher had played to me, I liked those riffs. I still remember when I got home and played the record for the first time and it just blew my mind. I still listen to it occasionally and it is still a nice blend of both heavy and mellow songs. “Solitude” is one of the best songs ever written.
Kettil: Den Stora Vilan – Förvandling
It was with this album that I realised music can sometimes be the silence between the notes too. That it doesn’t constantly have to be busy to be interesting. It opened up a new world for me, both in my drumming and in how I listened to music. And opened my eyes to the world of psychedelic music.
Affe: The Ark – We are the Ark
Because 11 year old me thought that one album would be plenty enough for entertainment on a 3 month stay in Malaysia.
I listened to it so much I know the album inside out. But I can’t stand listening to it now, because I’ve gotten too used hearing it on a poor cassette quality on a Walkman. With a casette rip that had really bad gain staging and a little too fast speed.
Gustaf: Camel – The Snow Goose
When I heard this album, in my late teens, it made me realize that a rock band can play music another way than the standard pop/ rock format. Instrumental, atmospheric and kind of “artsy” and with interesting sounds and instrumentation, but still never losing track of the importance of strong melodies and hooks. This is something I’ve always strived towards in my writing and playing since.
TMODM: What’s next for you?
Urtidsdjur: We’re releasing singles throughout 2025 leading up to Fågelsånger on September 12. The album will be available digitally and as a hand-marbled limited vinyl edition. After that, we’ll play some shows and possibly release a few live sessions we’ve recorded. We’ve also started sketching out new material, so who knows—maybe a third album won’t be too far off.
#Experimental #Improvisation #Noise #Post-rock #Psychedelic #PsychedelicFolk #Noise #PsychedelicRock
Kurenai Pirako: Vocal, Guitar, Harmonica, Bells, Percussion Kageo: Guitar, Vocal, Tatebue Matsueda Hideo: Bass, percussion Shimura Koji (ex. White Heaven, ex. High Rise, Mainliner, ex. Acid Mothers Temple, Miminokoto): Drums (Guest)
TMODM: What had the strongest influence on UNDERGROUND SPIRIT 20 – Faraway Thunder 地下精神20 – 遠雷?
Suishou No Fune: Since 2015, Suishou No Fune has been holding regular performances titled “UNDERGROUND SPIRIT.” This is a musical performance with pure expression and free spirit. Suishou No Fune make a clear distinction between “UNDERGROUND SPIRIT” performance and Commercialistic music.
About the subtitle Faraway Thunder. It is a feeling of nostalgia for our beloved Matt, who has passed away. I wanted to play music once again in memory of our friend Matt, who passed away more than 17 years ago. Suishou No Fune has played two memorial sessions with mutual American friends in Matt’s hometown of Minneapolis, in 2008 and 2012. And, this year, I felt a strong desire to play a memorial session in Tokyo with mutual Japanese friend in Japan. The subtitle “Faraway Thunder” means that thunder roars from faraway Minneapolis and rains in Tokyo. It is exactly connected to the content of the song “Your Tears”.
TMODM: What were the recording sessions for this album like?
Suishou No Fune: This is a live recording of Suishou No Fune held in Tokyo on May 24th, 2025. The live performance proceeded with improvisation interspersed with songs related to Matt, such as “Your Tears” and new songs from Suishou No Fune that he was looking forward to at the time. It was a mysteriously beautiful, chaotic moment, as if clouds and fog were forming, with the past and present intertwining. And we ended with a new song, “In a Dream” which encompasses the past, present, and future.
TMODM: What record(s) changed your lives?
Suishou No Fune:
・Bob Marley & The Wailers: All albums up to Uprising
・Joy Division : All albums
Note: You may think that Suishou No Fune’s music is completely different, but I felt a strong sense word spirit (Kotodama) in their music and was deeply impressed. We believe in word spirit (Kotodama) , and are walking our own unique path of sound creation that originated from improvisation.
TMODM: What’s next for you?
Suishou No Fune: We are working on a reissue CD of “The Lost Trees of Paradise,” released on December 12, 2019.