NYC’s Psychic Ills are the latest darkly experimental addition to the cloak-wearing, virgin blood-drinking family at Sacred Bones Records. Hazed Dream will be the band’s fifth album, and their first bonafied full-length in three long, Psychic-Ills-full-length-less years (2009’s Mirror Eye, though there have been a few 12-inches in the interim). Tres Warren (guitar/vocals/synth), Elizabeth Hart (bass), and Brian Tamborello (drums) return with a slightly more accessible psych rock kinda sound after a few years delving into the more avant garde side of things, and if the phrase “new Psychic Ills album” isn’t enough to make drool start pooling in a mini Lake Tahoe on your face, well consider the phrase “recorded by Mitch Rackin of Gang Gang Dance and Black Dice.” So, this shit better be good, right? Right? DON’T FUCK IT UP, GUYS. NO PRESSURE.
And if the leaked album track “Mind Daze” is any indication, Psychic Ills’ latest looks poised to be an early fall favorite. It’s currently blowin’ up the blogosphere, setting alight the shriveled, nerdy hearts of music writers across these 50 states and beyond. Tres Warren gets all poetic on us, explaining that “this album lives in a sunny place. A half memory. A hazed dream.” Gosh, that just sounds nice, doesn’t it? It sounds like a cat. This album is the sonic equivalent of a five-year-old calico cat curled up in a spot of early autumn sunshine, snoozing his way into a funny little dream about chasing a mouse and eating your leftover dinner scraps… ALL WHILE ON OPIUM. Yeah, Hazed Dream is like that, the fuzziest imaginable cat just totally, you know, feelin’ it, maaaan. It’s out October 18, and you can watch a little video preview below.
• Psychic Ills: http://psychicills.com
• Sacred Bones: http://www.sacredbonesrecords.com
