The Third Eye

August has come and gone, and we here at The Third Eye are surveying the bounty of excellent psychedelic music left for us.

My wife and I spent a few weeks in the Philadelphia area last month, and it felt good to return home. Now, I’m back in my actual home in Middle Tennessee and back to, as they say, the grind. Part of that grind involves listening to and writing about new psych music, but I find it so fun that it’s not much of a grind at all.

In August, Trigona and IO Audio Recordings released an excellent split record that provided the new space rock riffs I craved. Legendary Philly-based psych rockers Bardo Pond released a new double LP compilation cataloging late-’90s rarities and outtakes. Experimental composer Chuck Johnson released his much-anticipated record, Sun Glories. And let’s not forget about great new music from Luiz Bruno, Australia’s Endless Valley, and New York City’s White Hills.

Here are The Third Eye’s favorite releases from August 2024:

• The Celestial Artisans by Luiz Bruno
• Split by Trigona and IO Audio Recordings
• Melt Away by Bardo Pond
• Live In Stockholm And Tallinn by Misha Panfilov Septet
• Echoes by Cazayoux
• The Cassini Promise by Cassini
• International Space Station, Vol. 2 by Verstärker, Kombynat Robotron, Speck, Sarkh
• Constitution by Asher Gamedze & The Black Lungs
• Another Tide, Another Fish by Andrew Tuttle and Michael Chapman
• Kaskashir by Endless Valley
• Sun Glories by Chuck Johnson
• Beyond This Fiction by White Hills
• North Texas Electric by Justin Sweatt

Be sure to support all the artists, bands, and labels bringing this terrific music to our ears by buying their stuff on Bandcamp.

You can also check out below a brief sampler playlist on Spotify of some of these tunes, but please head to Bandcamp for the real deal:

I hope you had a great August, and I hope you enjoy the tunes!

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Parting words: “I don’t care if a dude is purple with green breath as long as he can swing.” – Miles Davis