Mirror Eye

Description

Sprawling opener Mantis sets the records tone with modulating synths and hand drums that give way to a loose groove, terrestrial guitar patterns and shamanic vocals. If you are still around when it rolls into its ending nearly 11 minutes later, its safe to say that youre on board. Following that, the open-ended trance rock of the second track, Meta fades up as if the band has already been jamming on it long before the listener has been let in. It departs in a similar fashion, save for a brief reprise of reversed tape and whatever remnants of the chorus Meta, Meta, Meta are hanging around in the listeners head like a contact high.

Sub Synth is an off-the-cuff synthesizer splice that descends into the improvised space raga of Eyes Closed. I Take You As My Wife Again continues deeper into the abstract with metallic synths and improvised electronics transitioning into organic percussion and whistles before ultimately arriving at its minimal techno inspired ending. Fingernail Tea is the most straight forward song and vaguely harkens back to elements of their previous full-length, Dins.

The hallucinatory next track, The Way Of is the albums last burst of energy, forming out of spinning synths and clatter, and riding an eastern bass line and watery guitar riff before unravelling under percussion and goat scream mania. final track Go to the radio is a come down of sorts combining two main processed loops, an electronic tambura with a circular dubbed-out field recording of a mans voice repeating the songs name and message, and perhaps the albums for that matter. Mirror Eye is the imaginative culmination of a period of exploration for Psychic Ills. A transcendent combination of musics that symbolizes how far the band has and continues to evolve beyond genre and a fun listen too. This release will be followed by a mini-lp in the winter of other unheard material from this period. Psychic ills first new album since their acclaimed debut dins. Ills will be touring extensively around release. Have played with bands such the black angels, ariel pink, dice, tv, animal collective, and gang dance sonic boom. LP version includes a free digital download.