It’s enough to leave anyone trying to follow what’s going on feeling quite breathless, and I have certainly felt overawed at times… unable to keep up and, more importantly, forgetting what has gone before. The last six years have been very special for me as we seem to have seen successive year-on-year increases in the sheer numbers of high quality albums that have been brought out. This is very much in keeping with the scene being, as it is, open and inclusive and at its best when produced by bands and labels in a collaborative and diy fashion. Since I began writing about music in 2013 I have always tried to take a broad view, believing that the nature of psych is in the third eye of the beholder. Others have taken a rather narrower view limiting the term to one particular genre of music, and not always the same one at that. Depending on how you define it it either covers a vast swathe of music, which could be said to be broadly leftfield in character and have elements that enable the listener to take themselves on sonic flights of fancy. The ‘Psych’ music scene is one that has grown and developed over the last few years.
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