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Kikagaku Moyo end their career on the highest note possible.

Kikagaku Moyo discuss their decade-long psych-rock mission, and why it's time to say goodbye.

In treading through the annals of rock music, it’s hard to argue that any approach to the genre has been more persistent than psychedelic-rock. From the jangling opening riff of 13th Floor Elevators’ “You’re Gonna Miss Me,” to the outpouring of groups that flocked to Haight-Ashbury in the late-'60s (therein forging a widespread counterculture), to the shoegaze sounds that swept the U.K. throughout the '90s, rock artists have continuously found new ways to interpret the ever-malleable, wide-ranging sound of psychedelic music. Aside from modern pop’s incorporation (*cough* appropri...

Open share drawer The jam-heavy live set captured between Walker’s four-piece band and the Japanese psych-prog quintet is a heady meeting of the minds. Ryley Walker’s got jokes. By now, the songwriter might even be as known for his witty, self-skewering online presence as for his increasingly weird, increasingly excellent psych-folk. But one of his recent gags has nothing to do with the former and everything to do with the latter. In 2019, Walker launched Husky Pants Records, a “joke record label” (his words) for a series of minor releases. Was it really just for kicks? Or...