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.

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Psychic Ills deserve more listeners. The New York quartet’s second album Mirror Eye is a smooth blend of heady psychedelia, Eastern-tinged raga dub, minimal Kraut electronics, and improvisational synthesized space rock that congeals into one 30-minute head trek. You get loops, Spacemen 3 “sitar” music, phased clatters, Sun City Girls-style instrumentals, and undulating hand drums, all played through a hallucinatory haze. It’s hard to get a sense of the places Mirror Eye takes you after listening to a single cut — because, as mentioned above, the eight tracks work together to propel the listener deeper into Psychic Ills’ project — but here’s the opening track “Mantis” to get you started on the journey.

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