http://www.myspace.com/yourpsychtunes
1 Because it’s FREE
2 Just to confirm to yourself that Psychedelia didn’t die after all. It just went out into the desert and slipped through the cracks in the earth – and has been making an interstellar spaced out racket underground ever since.
3 Those kids at YOUR PSYCH TUNES sure know how to put a compilation together. They’ve been doing it for over 2 years and every one of the compilations to date have been a carefully hand-stitched fusion of familiar sounds and brand new bands guaranteed to get inside your head. Chances are if you’ve only been paying attention to mainstream music for the last couple of years that you won’t have heard of any of these bands before. Which makes it all the better doesn’t it? You can be the weird kid in the school playground and turn your nose up at the popularity of The Black Keys, or you can simply keep it all locked away in the swirling, burling confines of your own head.
4 So as you can remember just how fucking great THE SHIVAS are – I mean, those kids are on fire with “Look So Good, Be So Good”
5 It’s the ideal soundtrack for any strange old day.
6 Because it’s always a good time for a change, to dig new music and follow the songstreams wherever they run. I for one will be checking out the likes of JEFF SYLVA (beautiful acoustic Arthur-Lee-esque “Syllables”), STATIC CLING (holy shit what a voice), MEMPHIS GRAHAM (sitar-led pysychedelic perfection of “Colour”), and KIM AND THE CINDERS (“Loved To Death” is bluesy supersensory brilliance). But don’t take my word for it, there’s undoubtedly something for every psych-lover or even if you’re new to the genre packed into this record.
7 Just to hear THE RED PLASTIC BUDDHA do “Clouds” again. Ahhhhhhhhh.
8 Speaking from experience, the only reward for running a project like this (aside from the kick of discovering new music) is seeing that people are taking 10 minutes out of their lives to go and download whatever you’ve put together. It can be a thankless task at the best of times, but as long as their are people like Your Psych Tunes in the corner of the little psychedelic guy & girl, then we’ve got a fighting chance. On the other side of the coin, here are three hands worth of talented musicians giving away their songs for nowt – and you can’t really argue with that can you?
9 If you like Volume 7, then you’ve straight away got another 6 Volumes (all equally as aurally vibrant) ready-made for you and available to download for FREE as well. That’s at least half the summer taken care of.
10 Because UBERFUZZ are on it.