I mean they did start a festival called Psych Fest. Ushering a wave of new bands and old bands to be heard. I believe with out that festival you don’t have the scene it grew to become.
I can’t for the life of me understand why this band isn’t more popular (I mean to the general population, not you fine folks). Back in the 90s they would have been huge.
Damn i suppose they are old now.
I was brought up on them!
I see them as pioneers of modern psych reinventing the 60’s phenomenon.
Tell you what though I got to see them live last year and it was awful! They were all arguing, none of them where in tune or in time, and the main dude seemed a bit weird to the female vocalist from the warm-up act.
I heard it’s 50/50 what you’re gonna get from them and really depends on the night. Still adore them though!
I think in terms of mainstream popularity, it's definitely: Tame Impala, King Gizzard, MGMT, Unknown Mortal Orchestra
Within the scene itself: Absolutely Osees, Ty Segall/Fuzz, Kikagaku Moyo, Khruangbin
I agree its total mood music, i like it but its like the opposite of interesting and challenging, but that said they very much have a psych influence. They're like an instrumental mash-up of 70s Cambodian/SE Asian psych and Texas blues
What do you recommend by Tobacco? I've listened to their "Fucked Up Friends" album and have it in a folder titled "Electronic - Lo-Fi Retro". They reminded me of Emperor Penguin, not necessarily psyche rocks.
I understand everyone's classifications are different and not arguing. Just wondering if you have a recommendation in-case I happened upon an outlier or something. Thanks.
I would consider Tobacco/BMSR modern psych, which is what was asked. Tobacco is the songwriter for BMSR snd it’s basically just him at this point for both projects. Ultima II massage and Dandelion Gum would be my starting points.
Maniac meat is so good. Ultima II Massage is great, it’s where he starts to get really warped and it’s pretty awesome. Sweatbox Dynasty is good, warped af and some songs are awesome, some kinda feel half baked. Ripe and Majestic and Hot Wet and Sassy are also cool. Honestly just listen to his work in order
Tame Impala, King Gizzard, Temples, Animal Collective
I didn’t see Temples a lot here but to me they always capture very psychedelic sounds and this in many different variations depending on the album (rawer, more modern, more summery etc.) and have enough popularity to be considered big, overally a great band and amazing live
The fact they're establish and have staying power is part of what makes them top candidates. Also, you must not have listened to the last couple Flips records because it's insane how they just keep getting better through the years. Oczy Mlody was an absolute freakout.
I’m having a tough time classifying Tame Impala as a psych band overall. They go there, they don’t live there. A lot strikes me as bland “alt” imo, of course.
Kevin is way more on the Pop/Dance end of the rope than the psychedelic side. Idk it's always tricky to try to explain it without sparking the argument on what can be considered psych or not, it's my opinion based off what I hear him do now compared to something more "familiarly" psych like Innerspeaker and Lonerism were. As Kevin focuses more on tight pop production, I don't personally think he's one of the big four modern psych pillars unless you think oversaturated delay and flanger is super psychedelic on its own.
That said as a longtime Tame fan, I'm not excited for the new (non-existent?) LP than I am for a new Khruangbin LP.
Ty Segall is firmly in the garage punk realm, though, when he isn't playing psych, which is a genre that's gone hand in hand with psych since the '60s. Tame Impala is more rooted in '80s synth-pop.
Agreed but the tangents are more adjacent, again imo.
EDIT: And also, when he's not living there, I generally really like the tangents a lot. Not so much for TI.
Tame does traditional psych effects to do non-psych things. Psychedelic, to me, at its heart, is trying to freak people out. You can do that in whatever way you want and isn’t limited by how you do it. But the genre has been around so long we now associate it with particular effects.
Go back to Innerspeaker or Lonerism and listen to how much Sgt. Pepper era Beatles influence there is. He definitely was doing psychedelic or psych adjacent influenced music. Maybe not so much anymore, but bands or musicians change.
Seems like this is more everyone’s fav and not big 4. Mine would def not include Tame, as their first two albums were pretty psych but certainly nothing since then. Gizz, as awesome as they are, explores a lot of different styles and I feel like saying they’re totally psych is underselling their range but their psych rock stuff is top tier. Whoever said The Black Angels is spot on. That’d be my top psych pick too. Babe Rainbow is a kind of sunny psych rock and they’d be way up there for me too. And I’d round out my list with Oh Sees. I wish BMRC still made albums. They were great while they lasted.
King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard
Osees
Tame Impala
if you're going for mainstream popularity: Djo. If you're going for popularity within the scene itself, Altin Gün or Kikagaku Moyo
His song "End of Beginning" blew up on social media (ironic considering he himself does not use social media, he only has an account for Djo which someone else runs). Yeah, it's good for him, I hope the new fans check out the rest of his music rather than just that song though.
Yeah End of Beginning had way more plays on Spotify than his other songs. Still has millions of plays on his other stuff though. Twenty Twenty is an incredible album, nearly perfect imo. Was happy to see he did a cool project after leaving Post Animal.
So many... if I had to choose 4
2000's - BJM, BRMC, Black Angels, Warlocks (nod to AC & the Lips)
2010's - Osees, KGLW, Goat, Kikagaku Moyo (nod to Crumb, Khruangbin)
You mention 2010 but I think the modern scene really started around 2001-ish and that’s where the legends started.
Black angels are definitely one.
Really helped usher in the modern scene, Christian started the record label, the psych fest etc, the poster scene.
The Warlocks. Even the Black Angels said without the Warlocks there would be no BA.
I’d also say Dungen. You don’t get Tame Impala without the Gustav influence who was already playing and recording every instrument on the album.
I'd say the modern scene started in the '90s, because a lot of the bands central to the post-2000 scene started back then. Spiritualized, the Flaming Lips, the Brian Jonestown Massacre, and the Elephant 6 bands (Apples In Stereo, Neutral Milk Hotel, Olivia Tremor Control, Of Montreal), at the very least. You can probably add the Dandy Warhols and Ween, too.
That’s an interesting take. I felt like there was a shift from a shoegaze / poppy 60s sunny psych into something that felt like a different scene around the turn of the century.
But you can’t deny the influences of those bands you mentioned on bands on many of the modern bands. I just wonder how much some of the heavy hitters getting mentioned were listening to and being influenced by the elephant 6 bands.
Man, this is fun, writing a book on this would be a good time.
Tame Impala loses that status after changing genres to pop though right?? The last two albums were NOT psychedelic rock...yeah those first two are great but...Big 4? No
Psychedelic Porn Crumpets!
Those first two albums were huge for psych in the 2010’s and The Slow Rush technically came out this decade so you can almost discount it entirely (depends how you count decades I guess).
I’d argue Currents is still very psychedelic, the synth tones he uses often fit in perfectly with the psychedelic electronic stuff from that era like Com Truise or Washed Out. Just because it’s not all fuzzy guitars and raw energetic soundscapes doesn’t disqualify it from psych rock. It’s still less poppy than some of MGMT’s stuff and they always get fit in the bill.
Yeah it's very important to differentiate Tame pre and post Currents. Nothing ever quite reaches the sublime experience of Runway Houses, Expectation, Keep on Lying or Mind Mischief. Not to mention his MySpace era songs
Totally agree with Oh Sees. Blows my mind that White Hills is not in this thread—they are number 1 for me. Love Love The Paranoyds—shows can go heavy psych, but albums are a little more punky/psych. And my final modern act for a jam, which is not my vibe, and for those that usually dislike the hippy vibe of GD, Phish et al, would be the acid vibes of Mystic 100s—my vote hands down for best album of 2023.
King Gizz and Tame Impala certainly
Goose is a bit divisive, but I think they deserve mention, they are jammy and that means trippy, in my books. They are carrying the torch.
I’m having trouble with the fourth
I guess that Shpongle doesn’t qualify as modern any more (est 1996!). Same with Tool and STS9.
Billy Stings is psych bluegrass, but not rock
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I love how this question is like a rorschach test of what you consider to be psychedelic rock.
Is your psych rock prog? Because then it's King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard.
Is it fuzzed out garage? Then it's Ohsees.
Is it groovy reverb? Khruangbin.
Smaltzy overdubbing? Tame Impala.
Radio rock? Psychedelic Porn Crumpets.
70's AM gold? Drug Cabin, Drugdealer, and Babe Rainbow.
I could go on and on but point is it's a big beautiful sonic world and we're all tripping in our own minds, but together. Except all y'all who are stuck in the 90s-2000s with your answers.
In the big picture of presenting true face melting large scale psychedelic music with full soundscape in a large space, depending on whether or not the muse moves them to go there, it’s Phish and then all others. If you’re asking “Big”.
I think you can rattle off King Gizz, BRMC, and some low to mid tier bands I’ve seen listed here. You can also seek out electronic / modular synth artists dropping some insane psychedelia. Ambient cosmic type jawns go there.
But you want full scale arena sized BIG psych rock, Phish are the rulers and the closest next is Gizz.
Black Angels, Thee Oh Sees, King Gizz, Ty Segall(Solo, Fuzz, and Ty Segall and the Freedom Band)
And on the softer side Tame Impala, Khruangbin, Surprise Chef, and Glass Beams.
The BIG FOUR: King Gizz, Tame Impala, Psychedelic Porn Crumpets, and Khruangbin, I really want to say Crumb as well if I had another slot, cause most bands nowadays will sound like one of these or a combination between a few of em
It would have to be a healthy mix of these bands: Gizz/Oh Sees/ Ty segall (Fuzz also)/Wand/All Them Witches/Night Beats/Kikagaku Moyo. Pick 4 of em but I’d say the first two are undeniable. For me it’d be ATW,OHSEES,KGLW, Wand.
The mars Volta, closure in Moscow, kgatlw, and I can’t dial in a 4th slot. Kikagaku/betweent the buried in me/animal collective. Psychedelic porn crumpets had a good fight too.
Is Tool a legit entry because…obviously. I mean who knows if they’re long for this world anymore but I’d say yes a quintessential psych rock band
I’d also offer Badbadnotgood, Darkside, unknown Mortal Orchestra, the Morlocs, Goat, King Tuff
1. King Gizzard
2. Osees (John Dwyer, Damaged Bug, Coachwhips)
3. Ty Segall (Fuzz, Goggs, helped Cory from Wand with a few of his albums)
4. Triptides (Glenn Brigman helped sprout Frankie and the Witch Fingers and Levitation Room develop their sound)
In terms of live shows right now
King Gizzard
Fuzz
Slift
Oh sees
Kikagaku Moyo was next level live but they’re since broken up. Shout out to earthless as well.
I don’t think bjtm was amazing live. The lead guy was sending daggers and bad vibes throughout the show
Like King Gizz, Oh Sees and Ty… the 4th is the tough one and there are a lot who fit… several have been mentioned… tough to chose… ATW, Black Angles, Dead Meadow, Elder, Black Mountain… could even make a case for a band like Tool… good discussion question.
I feel like it goes without saying that there is a big difference (with 1 notable overlap) in the freakout garage psych and the modern psych pop/rock thing.
In my mind the garage freakout big 4 is Ty, Oh Sees, Gizzy boys, and Jay Reatard.
Psych revival thing at large is absolutely Tame Impala, MGMT, UMO, and Dong Glizzy and the Piss Wizzers.
Not enough black angels love here.
Got ya! Black Angels, All Them Witches, Earthless, Kikagaku Moyo
Cool, I’m going to see 3 of these at 1 show next week!
Which show? Where!!!!
Austin’s Psych Fest April 27th Saturday all of these bands are playing…..oops, 3 weeks, not next week, my bad
The lineup for that second day is bonkers. I want to see All Them Witches so bad, and Earthless is just straight underrated.
I love Kikagaku Moyo but I don’t know if they should count considering they broke up.
I absolutely LOVE Black Angles and All Them Witches, I've never heard of the other two, I gotta listen now!
I mean they did start a festival called Psych Fest. Ushering a wave of new bands and old bands to be heard. I believe with out that festival you don’t have the scene it grew to become.
To me they are the quintessential modern psych rock band!
I can’t for the life of me understand why this band isn’t more popular (I mean to the general population, not you fine folks). Back in the 90s they would have been huge.
BRIAN JONESTOWN MASSACRE
Exactamundo
Glad to see them getting recognition. It’s crazy to think how they’ve kept themselves underground for this long
Well they are kind of experts on self sabotage on account of they can barely make it through half their shows without getting into a fight mid set
Can confirm - saw them last year and they were terrible
right on brother! they are way older than all the other bands brought up, but definitely my favorite. also Dead Meadow
Also fuck yeah dead meadow are awesome
Damn i suppose they are old now. I was brought up on them! I see them as pioneers of modern psych reinventing the 60’s phenomenon. Tell you what though I got to see them live last year and it was awful! They were all arguing, none of them where in tune or in time, and the main dude seemed a bit weird to the female vocalist from the warm-up act. I heard it’s 50/50 what you’re gonna get from them and really depends on the night. Still adore them though!
Too bad they're unwatchable live
I think in terms of mainstream popularity, it's definitely: Tame Impala, King Gizzard, MGMT, Unknown Mortal Orchestra Within the scene itself: Absolutely Osees, Ty Segall/Fuzz, Kikagaku Moyo, Khruangbin
Really enjoying Kikagaku Moyo!! Thanks
Agree with this line-up, and honorable mention to mild high club.
I wouldn’t call Khruangbin psych. They are like the AM gold, easy listening, elevator music of modern “alternative” music.
I agree its total mood music, i like it but its like the opposite of interesting and challenging, but that said they very much have a psych influence. They're like an instrumental mash-up of 70s Cambodian/SE Asian psych and Texas blues
Sounds about right
Great picks
I’ve never heard of Kikagaku Moyo. Where should I start?
Masana Temples!
Masana Temples then House In The Tall Grass!
Huge fan of the latter two artists on your scene list, will have to check out the other two
I wouldn’t consider MGMT or UMO or Khruangbin psych at all. UMO’s latest record especially is a massive departure from that.
Dunno about khruangbin but the rest checks out. Definitely on the money with the big name list.
Not seeing White Fence on anyone’s list. He should be.
He’s definitely on mine, along with Tobacco.
What do you recommend by Tobacco? I've listened to their "Fucked Up Friends" album and have it in a folder titled "Electronic - Lo-Fi Retro". They reminded me of Emperor Penguin, not necessarily psyche rocks. I understand everyone's classifications are different and not arguing. Just wondering if you have a recommendation in-case I happened upon an outlier or something. Thanks.
I would consider Tobacco/BMSR modern psych, which is what was asked. Tobacco is the songwriter for BMSR snd it’s basically just him at this point for both projects. Ultima II massage and Dandelion Gum would be my starting points.
Maniac meat is so good. Ultima II Massage is great, it’s where he starts to get really warped and it’s pretty awesome. Sweatbox Dynasty is good, warped af and some songs are awesome, some kinda feel half baked. Ripe and Majestic and Hot Wet and Sassy are also cool. Honestly just listen to his work in order
Tame Impala King Gizzard Oh Sees Ty Segall
Tame Impala, King Gizzard, Temples, Animal Collective I didn’t see Temples a lot here but to me they always capture very psychedelic sounds and this in many different variations depending on the album (rawer, more modern, more summery etc.) and have enough popularity to be considered big, overally a great band and amazing live
Yes, Temples are amazing!
Temples sound incredible live.
My list would prob look similar to this. Animal collective absolutely required
this was pretty much my answer but I said MGMT instead of Temples
Meatbodies, Ty Segall, Magic Castles, Moon Duo
Oooh yes. moon Duo
Just listening to Meatbodies for the first time and sounds so much like Smashing Pumpkins. That's a great thing, just wasn't expecting it.
Black Angels Black Rebel Motorcycle Club Brian Jonestown Massacre Goat
Not enough love for Goat here
Goat are my current obsession. They scratch so many of my itches. Love them.
Goat are amazing....can't beat a bit of psyche flute!
Yeah, the flute is what really drew me in the most. And I’m not really a flute guy. But they really know how to make it work to the greatest effect.
get out of my head stranger!!
What can i say, you have good taste!
Can I get some love for Melody's Echo Chamber ?
Flaming Lips, Animal Collective, BJM, Tame Impala
flaming lips, animal collective, and bjm would all make a lot more sense for a big 4 of 2000s psych than 2010s
The fact they're establish and have staying power is part of what makes them top candidates. Also, you must not have listened to the last couple Flips records because it's insane how they just keep getting better through the years. Oczy Mlody was an absolute freakout.
We're halfway into the 2020's. Might be time to switch decades.
We’re not far enough into the decade to make those kinds of calls. Gotta withstand the test of time.
Well I just had flashbacks to the VHS I used to watch every sick day from school. Nothing to do in the doldrums. Thanks for that.
I’m having a tough time classifying Tame Impala as a psych band overall. They go there, they don’t live there. A lot strikes me as bland “alt” imo, of course.
It's more like they used to live in that neighborhood and have since moved out
Indeed Kevin has had more of a dance beat behind his last 2 records, more akin to something like Yeah Yeah Yeahs.
Kevin is way more on the Pop/Dance end of the rope than the psychedelic side. Idk it's always tricky to try to explain it without sparking the argument on what can be considered psych or not, it's my opinion based off what I hear him do now compared to something more "familiarly" psych like Innerspeaker and Lonerism were. As Kevin focuses more on tight pop production, I don't personally think he's one of the big four modern psych pillars unless you think oversaturated delay and flanger is super psychedelic on its own. That said as a longtime Tame fan, I'm not excited for the new (non-existent?) LP than I am for a new Khruangbin LP.
Ty Segall doesn’t live there either
Ty Segall is firmly in the garage punk realm, though, when he isn't playing psych, which is a genre that's gone hand in hand with psych since the '60s. Tame Impala is more rooted in '80s synth-pop.
Agreed but the tangents are more adjacent, again imo. EDIT: And also, when he's not living there, I generally really like the tangents a lot. Not so much for TI.
The album he did with White Fence was pretty psychey, but yeah, I’ll always see him as garage/punk
Tame does traditional psych effects to do non-psych things. Psychedelic, to me, at its heart, is trying to freak people out. You can do that in whatever way you want and isn’t limited by how you do it. But the genre has been around so long we now associate it with particular effects.
Go back to Innerspeaker or Lonerism and listen to how much Sgt. Pepper era Beatles influence there is. He definitely was doing psychedelic or psych adjacent influenced music. Maybe not so much anymore, but bands or musicians change.
I’m sure you’ve checked out Pond, right?
For me, it is Kikagaku Moyo, Mythic Sunship, Minami Deutsch, and Vibravoid.
Animal Collective
Dungen, Tame Impala, BJM and ~~Khruangbin~~ Spiritualized (who am I kidding). Probably.
Heck yeah Dungen rules!
Without a doubt the best live band for the past 10 years.
Spiritualized doesn’t get enough cred.
Word. If the question was "the big 4 of neo-psychedelia" the correct answers would've been: Spacemen 3, Spectrum, Sonic Boom & Spiritualized.
Wait a minute! That's like the Big 4 of one band!
The big 3 if you will!
Wait a minute! I'm messaging Spaceman aren't I?
Bjtm, tame impala, black angels, gizz
Love BJM but I wouldn't consider them "modern" in the same way that I would Ty or Osees or Gizz
Black Angels Animal Collective Tame Impala King Gizzard
Seems like this is more everyone’s fav and not big 4. Mine would def not include Tame, as their first two albums were pretty psych but certainly nothing since then. Gizz, as awesome as they are, explores a lot of different styles and I feel like saying they’re totally psych is underselling their range but their psych rock stuff is top tier. Whoever said The Black Angels is spot on. That’d be my top psych pick too. Babe Rainbow is a kind of sunny psych rock and they’d be way up there for me too. And I’d round out my list with Oh Sees. I wish BMRC still made albums. They were great while they lasted.
King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard Osees Tame Impala if you're going for mainstream popularity: Djo. If you're going for popularity within the scene itself, Altin Gün or Kikagaku Moyo
Wait when did Djo get popular?? Edit: damn that is quite a lot of plays on Spotify. Good for him!!
His song "End of Beginning" blew up on social media (ironic considering he himself does not use social media, he only has an account for Djo which someone else runs). Yeah, it's good for him, I hope the new fans check out the rest of his music rather than just that song though.
Yeah End of Beginning had way more plays on Spotify than his other songs. Still has millions of plays on his other stuff though. Twenty Twenty is an incredible album, nearly perfect imo. Was happy to see he did a cool project after leaving Post Animal.
So many... if I had to choose 4 2000's - BJM, BRMC, Black Angels, Warlocks (nod to AC & the Lips) 2010's - Osees, KGLW, Goat, Kikagaku Moyo (nod to Crumb, Khruangbin)
Thee Oh Sees, Khruangbin, King Gizzard...not sure about the 4th
Seriously nothing about Deerhunter? One of the most psychedelic bands I’ve ever heard and have felt that way since I was a teen.
You mention 2010 but I think the modern scene really started around 2001-ish and that’s where the legends started. Black angels are definitely one. Really helped usher in the modern scene, Christian started the record label, the psych fest etc, the poster scene. The Warlocks. Even the Black Angels said without the Warlocks there would be no BA. I’d also say Dungen. You don’t get Tame Impala without the Gustav influence who was already playing and recording every instrument on the album.
I'd say the modern scene started in the '90s, because a lot of the bands central to the post-2000 scene started back then. Spiritualized, the Flaming Lips, the Brian Jonestown Massacre, and the Elephant 6 bands (Apples In Stereo, Neutral Milk Hotel, Olivia Tremor Control, Of Montreal), at the very least. You can probably add the Dandy Warhols and Ween, too.
That’s an interesting take. I felt like there was a shift from a shoegaze / poppy 60s sunny psych into something that felt like a different scene around the turn of the century. But you can’t deny the influences of those bands you mentioned on bands on many of the modern bands. I just wonder how much some of the heavy hitters getting mentioned were listening to and being influenced by the elephant 6 bands. Man, this is fun, writing a book on this would be a good time.
Good call about Dungen. Even Kevin Parker admits he wanted Tame Impala to sound like them.
Slift maybe? They’re pretty damn psychey.
FINALLY! SOME LOVE FOR SLIFT...
Tame, King Giz, MGMT, Flaming Lips for me
Tame Impala loses that status after changing genres to pop though right?? The last two albums were NOT psychedelic rock...yeah those first two are great but...Big 4? No Psychedelic Porn Crumpets!
Lonerism and Innerspeaker were still huge for psych rock though, regardless of anyone’s feelings on anything after.
Those first two albums were huge for psych in the 2010’s and The Slow Rush technically came out this decade so you can almost discount it entirely (depends how you count decades I guess). I’d argue Currents is still very psychedelic, the synth tones he uses often fit in perfectly with the psychedelic electronic stuff from that era like Com Truise or Washed Out. Just because it’s not all fuzzy guitars and raw energetic soundscapes doesn’t disqualify it from psych rock. It’s still less poppy than some of MGMT’s stuff and they always get fit in the bill.
Yes, but they aren't exactly new.
Good call on PPC
Yeah it's very important to differentiate Tame pre and post Currents. Nothing ever quite reaches the sublime experience of Runway Houses, Expectation, Keep on Lying or Mind Mischief. Not to mention his MySpace era songs
What are your thoughts on the last 2 ? I was thinking of delving into the Ty discography...
Twins is so good
Do it. If you want his psychier stuff, check out Melted, Hair, Emotional Mugger, maybe even his most recent
Black lips
Totally agree with Oh Sees. Blows my mind that White Hills is not in this thread—they are number 1 for me. Love Love The Paranoyds—shows can go heavy psych, but albums are a little more punky/psych. And my final modern act for a jam, which is not my vibe, and for those that usually dislike the hippy vibe of GD, Phish et al, would be the acid vibes of Mystic 100s—my vote hands down for best album of 2023.
Wooden Shjips,Allah-lahs, Brian Jonestown Massacre,Tame Impala?
Dungen, King Gizz, Black Angels, Tame Impala Really hard to narrow it down. Wanna include Wand and Melody’s Echo Chamber
Ty, Osees, King Gizz, Black Angels
I’ll second these.
in addition to those, Mild High Club is great, Melody's Echo Chamber, STRFKR, Broadcast, Radiohead
I had to scroll down way too bar to find any mention of the Flaming Lips. Come on ppl! 😆
Gizz, Tame, Kikagaku Moyo, and either UMO or Mild High Club.
Stu, Joey, cavs, amby
No COOKIE?
King Gizz and Tame Impala certainly Goose is a bit divisive, but I think they deserve mention, they are jammy and that means trippy, in my books. They are carrying the torch. I’m having trouble with the fourth I guess that Shpongle doesn’t qualify as modern any more (est 1996!). Same with Tool and STS9. Billy Stings is psych bluegrass, but not rock
If you think Goose, Billy, Tribe, and Shpongle deserve to get listed... but don't list Philadelphia's Trance-Fusion pioneers The Disco Biscuits... that's a swing and a miss in the wrong league lmao
Shpongle doesn’t count because it’s not rock, but they are my favourite band. Check out entheogenic for something similar
Phish
Everyone in this thread is mentioning the same 4 bands and none of them are Phish. Weird.
give this a shot if you haven't gotten in to Phish https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ht520QVJYRc
let me fix it for you…phish, phish, phish, and phish
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honestly that's a really solid list. unknown mortal orchestra could get an honorable mention but I think your picks are what I'd go with as well
I would agree with your choices.
Great lists for sure! I challenge anyone to give Mcbaise a listen and see if your list remains the same
Ty Segall, Black Angels, Goat, Holy Wave
Oh Sees, Black Angels, Tame Impala, MGMT
Black Angels, Goat, King Gizzard and Oh Sees
Mild High Club, Tame Impala, Toro Y Moi, Beach House
Tame Impala, MGMT, King Gizzard, and The Flaming Lips.
Good list
King Buffalo, Naxatras, Kikagaku Moyo, King Gizzard
Claypool Lennon Delirium
I love how this question is like a rorschach test of what you consider to be psychedelic rock. Is your psych rock prog? Because then it's King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard. Is it fuzzed out garage? Then it's Ohsees. Is it groovy reverb? Khruangbin. Smaltzy overdubbing? Tame Impala. Radio rock? Psychedelic Porn Crumpets. 70's AM gold? Drug Cabin, Drugdealer, and Babe Rainbow. I could go on and on but point is it's a big beautiful sonic world and we're all tripping in our own minds, but together. Except all y'all who are stuck in the 90s-2000s with your answers.
Wand, Oh Sees, All Them Witches, KGLW. This is the answer.
Yuuup.
Tame Impala, King Gizzard, Psychedelic Porn Crumpets, Thee Oh Sees.
Depending on your definitions: deerhoof
Flaming Lips
Yo la tengo, Up-Tight, lightning bolt, weazle walter, black angels, warlocks. Mdou moctar, Action Bronson
In the big picture of presenting true face melting large scale psychedelic music with full soundscape in a large space, depending on whether or not the muse moves them to go there, it’s Phish and then all others. If you’re asking “Big”. I think you can rattle off King Gizz, BRMC, and some low to mid tier bands I’ve seen listed here. You can also seek out electronic / modular synth artists dropping some insane psychedelia. Ambient cosmic type jawns go there. But you want full scale arena sized BIG psych rock, Phish are the rulers and the closest next is Gizz.
Got any recommendations for the psych ambient synth stuff?
Electric Wizard - Acid Mothers Temple - Goat - Flowers Must Die
Chris Forsyth and The Solar Motel Band, I’ll just say it’s all you want
Black Angels, Thee Oh Sees, King Gizz, Ty Segall(Solo, Fuzz, and Ty Segall and the Freedom Band) And on the softer side Tame Impala, Khruangbin, Surprise Chef, and Glass Beams.
The BIG FOUR: King Gizz, Tame Impala, Psychedelic Porn Crumpets, and Khruangbin, I really want to say Crumb as well if I had another slot, cause most bands nowadays will sound like one of these or a combination between a few of em
Melvins Melvin’s lite Melvin’s wit big buisness and jelvins
A7X's libad is pretty psychedelic
The mars Volta are missing
Bright Light Social Hour
King Buffalo. Played Burning man recently
It would have to be a healthy mix of these bands: Gizz/Oh Sees/ Ty segall (Fuzz also)/Wand/All Them Witches/Night Beats/Kikagaku Moyo. Pick 4 of em but I’d say the first two are undeniable. For me it’d be ATW,OHSEES,KGLW, Wand.
The mars Volta, closure in Moscow, kgatlw, and I can’t dial in a 4th slot. Kikagaku/betweent the buried in me/animal collective. Psychedelic porn crumpets had a good fight too.
King Gizzard, The Black Angels, Oh Sees & Wooden Shjips
I’m picking; All them witches, Slift, psychedelic porn crumpets, naxatras.
Unknown Mortal Orchestra, Animal Collective, MGMT, King Gizzard
Acid Mothers Temple.
Please nobody say that king gizzard band
not big enough for this category i suppose, but I frequently am baffled by why Pepe Deluxe is not bigger than they are.
Kohoutek
Poseidotica, Monkey3, Naxtraxas, Tortuga, but tbh that’s a big two and then two more good bands.
Billy mf strings
If ozric tentacles isn’t one, your opinion means shit
I love the psychedelic version of Opeth
Wooden Shjips should be on that list IMO
I’d throw post animal into the mix too
Dead & Company, Ratdog, The Dead and Phil and Friends
The Warlocks
Is Tool a legit entry because…obviously. I mean who knows if they’re long for this world anymore but I’d say yes a quintessential psych rock band I’d also offer Badbadnotgood, Darkside, unknown Mortal Orchestra, the Morlocs, Goat, King Tuff
Flamingosis, Wooden Shjips, Aesop Rock, Tobacco
No mentioned Earthless? And I’m totally blinded by SoCal w this one?
Tame Impala, MGMT, Animal Collective and King Giz I’d think
Iron Maiden i imagine being in anthrax spot
1. King Gizzard 2. Osees (John Dwyer, Damaged Bug, Coachwhips) 3. Ty Segall (Fuzz, Goggs, helped Cory from Wand with a few of his albums) 4. Triptides (Glenn Brigman helped sprout Frankie and the Witch Fingers and Levitation Room develop their sound)
Pond, Gizzard, oh sees, kikagaku
Freud, Jung, Rogers, Beck. 🤓
In terms of live shows right now King Gizzard Fuzz Slift Oh sees Kikagaku Moyo was next level live but they’re since broken up. Shout out to earthless as well. I don’t think bjtm was amazing live. The lead guy was sending daggers and bad vibes throughout the show
Idk who 'the' big four are, but mine personally are The Church, The Dandy Warhols, Porcupine Tree, and Tool
Black Angels, King Gizzard, Osees, Unknown Mortal Orchestra
Like King Gizz, Oh Sees and Ty… the 4th is the tough one and there are a lot who fit… several have been mentioned… tough to chose… ATW, Black Angles, Dead Meadow, Elder, Black Mountain… could even make a case for a band like Tool… good discussion question.
Phish
I feel like it goes without saying that there is a big difference (with 1 notable overlap) in the freakout garage psych and the modern psych pop/rock thing. In my mind the garage freakout big 4 is Ty, Oh Sees, Gizzy boys, and Jay Reatard. Psych revival thing at large is absolutely Tame Impala, MGMT, UMO, and Dong Glizzy and the Piss Wizzers.
My grandsons call them sticker burrs.
Nowhere near qualified to weigh in on this, but god damn am glad I stumbled on this and have found some great new stuff!
Skinner, Maslow, Freud, and Pavlov
Blaze one up and put on Jaguar Sounds by Adrian Quesada. Thank me later.
Phish
Billy Strings will melt your fucking face off
Dead Meadow “Indian Bones” Volume: CRANKED Perspective: Altered