Sky Picnic - Psych rock for the new millennium

Praise for Farther In This Fairy Tale:

The band are equally effective at the short songs as well as the longer more psyched out ones like the amazing 12 minute Universal Mind Decoder. Another brilliant effort...

- Scott Heller Aural Innovations

Haunting otherworldly Floydian shuffles, and some suitably spacious balladry with some lovely day-glow Mellotron. Expansive experimental songs that come in and out of focus.

-George Parsons Dream Magazine

Tunes float out to infinte space and back to earth. It gets better every time you listen to it. I highly recommend this record!

-Betti Psychedelic-Music.net

A damn good psych album, both of its and entirely out of time, in the kind of way only a psych album can be. Recommended.

-Andy Thompson Planet Mellotron

Sky Picnic are creating the most gorgeous, heavenly, tripped-out psychedelic songs I have heard in quite some time. This is psychedelia at its BEST.

-Terri Dirty Sexy Karma Blog

A soundtrack to a trip we have all taken, yet few of us remember. It is an inspired vision of the sound that a spiritual journey may encounter along the pathway to the soul. It is exquisite.

-Gary Vollono IndepenDisc

Highlight is without a doubt the 12-minutes-plus spacey psych-prog epic Universal Mind Decoder. [...] You won't find any bad track on this album. 46 minutes of sheer pleasure!

-Mike Homemade lofi Psych Blog

Praise for Sky Picnic live:

New York’s latest space-rock outfit Sky Picnic is currently making waves in the independent scene, carrying the psychedelic torch into a new era. [The show] was an incredibly dark and psychedelic affair, recalling both Slowdive’s breathy atmosphere and Pink Floyd’s Syd Barrett years to mind.

-Frank Deserto - Lime Wire Music Blog on Sky Picnic @ National Underground 6/19/09

Praise for Synesthesia:

7/11 both a breath of fresh air and a blast from the past.

-Nora E. Lindner Knocks From The Underground

Moons of Jupiter is a (soon to be) classic space-rock instrumental track that is held together with an echo-drenched (Interstellar Overdrive style) guitar lead and Sequence IV is a 13+ minute multi-part opus that will make a Pink Floyd fan weep with joy.

-Brooklyn Mike Brooklyn Rocks

Indeed Synesthesia has got everything any serious psych head wants. And any band that sometimes plays Astronomy Dominé as an encore for sure deserves our attention...Favourite Track: pretty hard to deceide, probably Moons of Jupiter - there isn't any bad track on that thing! Strongly recommended!!! Synesthesia is a marvelous debut!

-Mike Homemade lofi Psych Blog

The Wise Man Lost His Head is a dreamy psychy track that has a nice fuzz bass section, which is followed by mellotron!

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well… you just have to hear it for yourself.

-Scott Lowcut

A universal journey outside the mind and the body.

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Using each style to compliment the other, these guys marry the genres so seamlessly that they are definitely one of the precursors of this era’s Modern PsychProg movement.

-Gary V. IndepenDisc

their debut EP Synesthesia is deceptively good [...] the best song on the EP is easily Tea Break. The epic Sequence IV takes you on an intersting musical journey.

-Vu Nguyen We Heart Music

[Sky Picnic has] created a sound that is a nice reinterpretation of 60’s psych. They’ve managed to take the best elements of that era and modernize them.

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The epic 6 part exploratory jam Sequence IV clocks in at 13:26 minutes and melts faces.

-Geoff Thompson - the Psychedelic Music Blog

The post rock elements of Moons of Jupiter and the extended sprawl of Sequence IV are exceptional. When they move into this cavernous space, the band demonstrates that they indeed can invoke images of the outer limits in a sincere and forceful way.

-Frederick Foxtrott