Last week we gave you “Mantis,” the 10-minute opening track from the Psychic Ills’ second album Mirror Eye. As mentioned then, the New York quartet creates a smooth blend of dark psychedelia, Eastern-tinged raga, electronics, improvised space rock, offering Sun City Girls-style instrumentals, undulating hand drums, a hallucinatory haze. If you listened to “Mantis” the whole way through, your mind likely conjured various images (unless that part of your brain doesn’t work). Either way, let’s see if your imagination matches up to the tripped, lava-lamp, kaleidoscopic visuals in this Harrison Owen-directed clip. The guy the song’s named after is bugging.
(Via P4K.tv)
In case you don’t feel like clicking to last week’s post, here’s that MP3 again:
Mirror Eye is out via The Social Registry.
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meh. sounds like it came off a soundtrack for pilates.
drugs fuck you
Wait! Let me guess. You’d rather be listening to Coldplay or Vampire Weekend or Mates of State. Frankly, I’m not sure why the Psychic Ills would even bother with a promo video. They are definitely an album band. So releasing part of an album to the net masses only accomplishes one thing: it gives morons like d@ve and jaodiwess a chance to make ignorant comments. Anyone genuinely interested in experiencing the Psychic Ills should burn one of their albums and listen to it LOUD through headphones in the dark or better yet, check out one of their spooky, hypnotic shows.
hey mike…..dig the enthusiasm but can we at least pretend people still buy records for tsr & psychic ills’ peace of mind. ha! btw, record sounds way better on vinyl than it does on cd/mp3….a lot better….
I wasn’t suggesting that people not buy the album; anything I like, I buy. I was suggesting that people listen to it before buying it. That’s actually the only thing I like about mp3s.
Pitchfork had the right idea with their “1.4″ review of this album.