Definitely one of the better releases I’ve heard this year. This thing rips and shreds at from front to back.
Those of you who actually read this shifty blog, might remember my write up on Psychic Ills’s pulsating discography , a few months back when my friend Adriana asked me for come back to posting about them and their records which totally blew me , and many others away time and time again.
Well, to Adriana’s enjoyment and I hope it for many of you, just come out to the light all eleven new jams of their sprawling cave-psych, which has leaked from their One Track Mind, which will be available tomorrow february 19 through Sacred Bones .
So, .If you are already in tune with these seminal acts, then you know what kind of badass-ery to expect here and If their amazing discography totally skinned your ears alive, as it did to mine, then you could start melt your face over this , which will be wearethelastbeatniks’s early vote for one of best records of 2013, hands down.
The Psychic Ills really reach captured the spirit of late 60’s psych, producing artfully lots of sounds, most of them nostalgic and repackages it into a trippy multicoloured experience, creating an intense,and engagingly obsessive spacey rock.
Their works it have rolled up amongst spacerock, shoegazing, and psychedelia. since their formation as a home-recording experiment on 2003, after which has evolved into a live band, in their element when playing at extended jams.
The material that captures the formative days of the band, can find on Early Violence from 2006.
Psychic Ills joined the Social Registry roster in 2006 with the release of their debut, Dins with the painting, “Three Hairs and Shadow” by German Fluxus artist Wolf Vostell as the cover art and after a number of other projects they returned to Social Registry in 2008 with Mirror Eye .
2010, they’ve had few releases; two limited edition 12-inches, Astral Occurrence, through Australian´s The Spring Press and “Catoptric” through The Social Registry, as well as “Telesthetic Tape”, a cassette through Danish tape label Skrot Up , reaching 2011 working on a record for Sacred Bones Records, Hazed Dreams, just tasteful playing with subdued vocals, accomplishing something really good.
The current line-up consists of Elizabeth Hart , Brian Tamborello and Tres Warren. The trio sets the overall tone low-key, using Tres Warren’s heavily reverbed guitar and the soft sound of organ. to accentuate the rhythm section of Elizabeth Hart and Brian Tamborello.
Happily when it comes to sonic explorations charting new territories once in awhile , Psychic Ills isn’t kidding around….
Psychic Ills – Dins
Label:The Social Registry
Format:CD
Country:US
Released:2005
Artwork By – Rich Zerbo, Wolf Vostell
Featuring – Elizabeth Hart, Tom Gluibizzi
Featuring, Photography – Brian Tamborello, Tres Warren
Mastered By – Jennifer Munson
Mixed By, Written-By – Psychic Ills
Recorded By, Mixed By, Featuring – Charles Burst
Tracklist
1 East 1:39
2 Electric Life 5:26
3 Other [Stereo Parametric Equalizer] – Charles Burst 4:25
4 January Rain 5:38
5 Inauration 1:57
6 I Knew My Name 8:33
7 Witchcraft Breaker 2:12
8 Another Day Another Night 8:08
Psychic Ills – Early Violence
Label:The Social Registry
Format:CD, Album
Country:US
Released:05 Dec 2006
Tracklist
1 Vice
2 Killers
3 Diamond City
4 Days
5 Highway Of Death
6 4AM
7.1 Red Split
7.2 Diamond City
Psychic Ills – Mirror Eye
Label:The Social Registry
Format:CD, Album
Country:US
Released:2008
Artwork By [Art Direction] – Tres Warren
Artwork By [Layout] – Brian Tamborello, Rich Zerbo
Bass, Synthesizer, Percussion, Other [Movements] – Elizabeth Hart
Drums, Percussion, Synthesizer, Drum Programming [Drum Machine] – Brian Tamborello
Engineer [Additional] – Patrick Mccarthy
Mastered By – Paul Gold
Percussion, Guitar, Voice, Whistle, Voice [Goat Throat], Cymbal [Electric Hi Hat], Other [Field Recordings], Synthesizer – Tres Warren
Recorded By [To Tape] – Charles Burst
Synthesizer, Effects – Jimy Seitang
Written-By – Psychic Ills
Tracklist
1 Mantis 10:47
2 Meta 4:21
3 Sub Synth 2:09
4 Eyes Closed 3:11
5 I Take You As My Wife Again 9:35
6 Fingernail Tea Vocals – Elizabeth Hart 5:53
7 The Way Of 4:52
8 Go To The Radio Loops [Tambura] – Tres Warren 2:44
Psychic Ills – Telesthetic Tape
Label: Skrot Up
Format:Cassette, Album
Country:Denmark
Released:2010
Each tape comes with a poster of the album artwork, a card with a screenprint of the Psychic Ills logo, and a hand-numbered “proof of purchase” card.
Tracklist
A Untitled
B Untitled
Psychic Ills – Astral Occurrence
Label:The Spring Press
Format:Vinyl, 12″, Mini-Album, Limited Edition, White
Country:Australia
Released:Jun 2010
Mastered By – Mitch Rackin
Recorded By – Psychic Ills
“Recorded to 4 Track in the basement of 80 E. 3rd ST NYC USA By Psychic Ills”
Pressed on 200 gram white vinyl and limited to 250 unnumbered copies.
Tracklist
1 econd Sight
2 Aldebaran
3 Sun Bath
4 Second Sight (Return)
Psychic Ills – Catoptric
Label:The Social Registry
Format:Vinyl, 12″, Limited Edition, Multi-Colored
Country:US
Released:22 Jun 2010
Includes insert.
Limited to 550 copies (not numbered).
Tracklist
1 Transmute 5:14
2 Secret Flower 4:41
3 Indus Echo 4:47
4 Outvocation 11:36
Psychic Ills – Hazed Dream
Label:Sacred Bones Records
Format:CD, Album
Country:US
Released:18 Oct 2011
Bass – Elizabeth Hart
Drums, Bongos, Guiro, Maracas – Brian Tamborello
Electric Guitar, Acoustic Guitar, Slide Guitar, Guitar [Wah], Guitar [E-bow], Keyboards, Vocals, Drum Machine, Sruti Box, Jew’s Harp, Synthesizer, Harmonica – Tres Warren
Layout – Sacred Bones Design
Photography [Cover Photo Elements] – R.W.
Recorded By, Mastered By – Mitch Rackin
Written-By, Mixed By – Psychic Ills
Recorded to 2″ tape at the Seaside Lounge, NY, April 2011. Mixed in The Bunker May 2011.
Tracklist
1 Midnight Moon 3:49
2 Mind Daze 3:39
3 Incense Head 4:14
4 Mexican Wedding 3:21
5 That’s Alright 3:55
6 Ring Finger 4:08
7 Travelin’ Man 3:43
8 Sungaze 4:08
9 Dream Repetition 2:01
10 I’ll Follow You Through The Floor 4:47
11 Same Old Song 3:10
Moon Duo / Psychic Ills – Zoned / Take Me With You
Label:Sacred Bones Records
Format:Vinyl, 7″, Single, 45 RPM
Country:US
Released:07 Aug 2012
Mastered At – Bonati Mastering
Tracklist
A Moon Duo – Zoned
B Psychic Ills – Take Me With You
ARTIST:Psychic Ills
SESSION DATE:Aug 8, 2012
QUALITY:320k mp3
Tracks
1Welcome to Daytrotter
2Incense Head
3That’s Alright
4Mind Daze
5Electric Life
Psychic Ills – One Track Mind
Label : Sacred Bones Records
Format: LP/CD
To released February 19, 2013
SEVEN TRACKS SAMPLER
Tracklist
1. One More Time
2. See You There
3. Might Take A While
4. Depot
5. Tried To Find It
6. FBI
7. I Get By
8. City Sun
9. Western Metaphor
10. Drop Out
11. Violet Horizon (bonus track)
Psychic Ills – Might Take A While from Bret Zausmer on Vimeo.
DISCOGRAPHY
Recent Releases
Psychic Ills
One Track Mind
SBR-089
When it comes to following the beat of their own drum, New York’s Psychic Ills have exemplified the phrase since their beginnings in 2003. Initially spawned from electronic-centered home recording experiments, they progressed into all-night full-band exploration in a neighborhood where noise wasn’t a problem. They soon after evolved into a live band seemingly at home within the extended jam, exploring a variety of musical terrain. The early years saw several releases for Social Registry, tons of time on the road, and collaborations with artists as diverse as Gibby Haynes (Butthole Surfers) and Sonic Boom (Spacemen Three/Spectrum). In 2011, their first effort for Sacred Bones, Hazed Dream traded in the synthesizer space-outs and raga rumbles, and delivered a record of sunburned psych pop, awash in warm tones and blues damaged songwriting. (more…)
Available February 19.
This is very cool. Thanks.