Eindhoven Psych Lab

Celebrating and exploring the frontiers of the global psychedelic renaissance, Eindhoven Psych Lab reject revivalism and give the floor to the most progressive and trance inducing forms of psychedelia. Branching off the Liverpool Festival of Psychedelia, this Eindhoven based festival takes place on 6 and 7 June and will be filled to the brim with cutting-edge performances and will showcase further investigations by visual artists, designers and scientists.

06-07 June – Eindhoven

Wooden Shjips

Back to Land, this SF psych quartet’s latest album, finds them adding terrestrial touches like acoustic guitar to their usual spaced-out sound, resulting in their brightest and most universally appealing album yet.

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Nisennenmondai

Back in 1999, the only thing more ubiquitous than Prince’s ‘1999’ was talk of how the Y2K bug would bring the world of computers to a standstill. That year, three college girls from Tokyo decided to embrace the impending Armageddon by starting a band named after the Japanese phrase for the Y2K bug, which weds the chaos of noise with the inexorability of krautrock and enough danceable grooves to suggest they’ve taken Prince’s message to heart. Their powerful live shows have helped them build a devoted international following.

Night Beats

These 21st-century psych rockers tip their hats to Texas psych legends such as 13th Floor Elevators, Lost and Found and Golden Dawn, with guitar work more blazing than the desert sun and a rhythm section that’s not to be messed with.

Cosmonauts

This Orange County four-piece don’t let any derivative genre tropes get in the way of their good old-fashioned all-out rockin’. Garage lo-fi contends with shimmering guitar atmospheres across their various and varied releases to create moods that span beach-boy good times, drugged-out drones and heady transcendence.

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Föllakzoid

Santiago, Chile’s Föllakzoid surrendered their souls to rock’n’roll about five years ago, and they’ve been jamming together ever since. Whether they’re closer to the stars or just closer to a good source of ayahuasca, their trance-inducing take on krautrock just might blow your mind too.

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Suuns

North America may not be ready to ingest the heady prog rock potion being brewed up by Montreal’s Suuns, but it’s no surprise that the Dutch are, given their long-running love affair with the genre. On their latest album, Images du Futur, they work a magic subtler than that of their debut, but no less likely to put you under its spell.

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Disappears

This krauty, repetition-loving Chicago group has described theirs as ‘music for record collectors’. Their latest album, last year’s Era, finds them spicing up their collection of influences with dashes of Liars and Clinic.

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The inaugural Eindhoven Psych Lab takes place at Effenaar and around Eindhoven in partnership with Liverpool Festival of Psychedelia on 6 and 7 June. For more information, visit EindhovenPsychLab.com