PSYCHIC ILLS / DUBLIN / November !!! (1 Viewer)

[skinny wolves]

Psychic Ills, from New York City play Dublin, Friday 3rd November!!!

http://www.myspace.com/psychicills

Download:
Another Day Another Night [from the Dins LP]
4AM [from the Mental Violence II 12"]
January Rain [from the Dins LP]
Killers

They have be likened to My Bloody Valentine, Spacemen 3, Hawkwind, Galaxie 500, Can, The Fall, Section 25, Jesus & Mary Chain, Sonic Youth etc... and have releases on The Social Registry (Gang Gang Dance, Blood on The Wall, etc...)

Here is a review of their Dins LP

Psychic Ills are a Brooklyn four piece who bring Spacemen 3's psych & space rock into the New York back alleys and dirty it up with some solid tribal, no-wave rhythms circa early Sonic Youth. Sonic Boom never gave a second thought to drums - often there was just a steady, small drum machine, sometimes there was just a big cloud of guitars with nothing there to pin it down. Psychic Ills' drummer is a centerpiece, always there keeping momentum going forward, pulling the song back together, keeping the guitars from drifting too far away. The band's first full length, Dins, combines four songs with four more abstract collages. The songs are outright amazing. Derivative, probably, but a big, dreamy sound with long brushstrokes and soft, bright washes of distortion. When "Electric Life" finally comes together, it creates this undeniable chug, drums and guitar locked together, pushing forward underneath a cloud of haze, keyboard vamps interjecting, just like honey. "I Knew My Name" and "Another Day Another Night" are equally breathtaking. The former matches disparate elements of a harsh military march beat and thrashing guitars with soft, highly-processed male vocals. The latter takes its guitar sound right out of Loveless, but no surprise, that huge sound exhibits equal grandeur and drama in 2005 as it did in 1991. The more amorphous pieces that flow between the "actual" songs are well done too. "Untitled" and "Inauration" are slow builds to pick up intensity before the steady guitar chug starts again, the former creating harsher metallic tones and the latter basing itself on a circular riff that grows in intensity that drops off into "I Knew My Name"'s quiet, drum-forward intro. Hand drums and Macha-esque guitar melody open the album with "East," which make me think that the band might be just as strong pared down as it is in its huge sound glory. The whole album just flows together well, one big forty minute piece of space-based exploration and improvisation with pop songs popping up inbetween the gaps. There's still a lot of gold to be mined from these sounds (why else would people have waited so long for Shields to follow up Loveless), and Psychic Ills may have the best chance of creating something new out of it, at least while still following the form of a rock band. - fakejazz.com

Imagine Terry Riley forming a rock band.

Social Registry

Soon to be a staple for fans of Can, Terry Riley, 13th Floor Elevators, Red Crayola, and other forward thinking individuals.

insound

A fine sound, a young sound, a sound you should get to know today.

Byron Coley The Wire

Psychic Ills is a relatively new quartet from New York developing an indie rock hybrid of Confusion Is Sex-era Sonic Youth (the shattered rhythms and screaming feedback), throbbing psychedelia à la Spacemen 3 and My Bloody Valentine, ghostly reverb-soaked post-punk (Joy Division, Section 25), and Eno's glassy synth-generated ambient textures.

San Francisco Weekly

Incorporating space rock, psychedelica, and drone with the ferocious rhythms of punk rock, Psychic Ills are the rare band that is as experimental as they are explosive. While their dark electronics can sometimes fall into the "spooky" genre (spooky = silly sometimes), these guys make up for it when they let their guitars rip.

oh my rockness

Psychic Ills start out playing snakey, woozy reverbed drug-groove shit, but their space-rock excursions usually eventually turn into actual songs, which basically means they sound like Spiritualized. The singer is a handsome skinny kid with hair in his face who sings in a fey little whisper, buried in the mix, which also means they sound like Spiritualized. But they don't quite always sound like Spiritualized because Spiritualized doesn't have an amazing rhythm section, a low, heavy stomp that sometimes sounds almost tribal and always anchors the two guitarists' gentle feedback spins. So yeah, I like this band too.

Village Voice

This is some great spacey rock! Something so confident and seamless about these songs and their delivery. There is this great ability to be spaced out and rock out all at once. Like they are channeling the legacy of Spacemen 3, Psychic Ills have made one of the most striking and satisfying guitar centered records of this young year. I love how they take from both the forefathers of psych as well as the seductive and slightly drugged out sounds of post-punk luminaries like Joy Division and Psycho Candy era Jesus & Mary Chain. The record has not one lull or weak moment. Songs flow right into each other. Whether they are swaying back and forth with a late night ease or turning up and blasting out bleached out melodies; they get it right with every twist and turn the record offers. I would love to see them tour with The Gris Gris as they both take a slightly different approach to psychedelic rock but share a level of excellence that's pretty hard to come by. Highly recommended!

Aquarius Records

should be amazing!!!!!!!!!

 

[Jim A. Morrish]

nice one!

 

[skinny wolves]

nice one!

they have recently been doing some recording/mixing with SONIC BOOM.

nice one x 2

 

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great band indeed

 

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calm down there, linky

 

[skinny wolves]

Psychic Ills, from New York City play Dublin, Friday 3rd November!!!

In the Boom Boom Room

 

[skinny wolves]

In the Boom Boom Room

with Luftkluster/Luftfluks

 

[skinny wolves]

& we're delighted to say that SOMADRONE will be playing too!http://www.myspace.com/iamsomadrone

In around 1997 Somadrone began to document some home recordings on an old tape machine and 4 track recorder. By adding some additional electronic drum beats and keyboards to previous guitar sessions the 10" e.p. works had begun. This 10" which only had 100 copies pressed on Mango music in 1999, consisted of dirty 4 track ambient moog synthesizer recordings and electro-pop numbers. At this stage i was involved with a number of other projects which included The Connect Four Orchestra, Redneck Manifesto, Jape, & Goodtime John. The live set was begining to take shape with the addition of other instruments including vibraphone, viola & chello. 'Fuzzing away To A Whisper' is a collection of recordings from four years of producing. They range from electro-acoustic pieces to electronic pop music. The recording is available from all good record stores or from our online store from 22/10/05 as a mail order CD or Digital Download. current members include - lioba pietre, esperanza collado, gavin o brien, glenn keating

 

[Quintron]

nice 1.



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[skinny wolves]

Music video for Another Day Another Night by Psychic Ills

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[skinny wolves]

next friday

 

[skinny wolves]

From the Social Registry Newsletter

Psychic Ills Take Their Maiden Voyage To Europe
Early Violence Compilation To Be Released December 5th

Psychic Ills will be loading up their box of archaic electronics and guitars onto a plane bound for Dublin as they stage their first shows on the other side of the Pond. Taking a strong departure from the guitar oriented pyrotechnics of Dins, you’ll find a wholly new sound at work in their music that is sure to monopolize your headspace well after you see them play.
On December 5th we’ll be cleaning out the Ills’ audio storage locker with the release of Early Violence, a CD which culls together various singles, twelve inches, compilation tracks and unreleased material into one neatly remastered package. The early Psychic Ills material is pretty obscured by today’s digital standards as it was mostly released only on vinyl. Though these tracks predate Dins and their current state of sonic madness, they breathe with a sense of discovery and invention which is what drew us to the band in the first plac, and still sounds as fresh as when it was originally released.


Upon their return to the States, the Ills will be embarking on a short jaunt through North America with spiritual compatriots (and old friends) Indian Jewelry as they tighten up their newest material before finishing up work on the much anticipated follow up to Dins.


If you doubt our enthusiasm for the current state of the Psychic Ills franchise we would like to direct your attention to last weeks’ Village Voice “Best Of New York” issue which named Psychic Ills “Best Psych-Rock Band” and manages to draw the distinction that Stoner Rock and Psych-rock are two very different things and describe the Ills as “coloring-outside-of-the-lines-of-everyday-consciousness”.
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November 3rd Dublin, Ireland The Boom Boom​

November 4th Belfast, Ireland Lavery's​

November 5th Glasgow, Scotland Optimo​

November 9th Barcelona, Spain The Tanned Tin Festival eum​

November 11th London, England Baden's Boudoir​

November 15th Paris, France Baden's Boudoir​

 

[swingkid]

with Luftkluster/Luftfluks

"dawn chorus" by luftkluster/luftfluks remixed by tigerpiss. here

 

[tin robots]

"dawn chorus" by luftkluster/luftfluks remixed by tigerpiss. here

yo,i think you forgot to mention that that remix is available from the totally super cool new label caff/flick swingkid. i hear they've got a few tricks up their sleeve and there are a tonne of new releases on their way.

www.caff-flick.com

 

[rate payer]

Could you give us the heads up on set times, please? Want to see all the bands but especially Pyschic Ills, but could be tight after work. Much appreciated, ta.

 

[skinny wolves]

Could you give us the heads up on set times, please? Want to see all the bands but especially Pyschic Ills, but could be tight after work. Much appreciated, ta.

hi
not too sure exactly but it should be something like this

doors - 8.30
somadrone - 9.00
luftkluster/ luftfluks w/ henning - 10.00
psychic ills - 11.00


what time you finished work?

 

[rate payer]

hi
not too sure exactly but it should be something like this

doors - 8.30
somadrone - 9.00
luftkluster/ luftfluks w/ henning - 10.00
psychic ills - 11.00


what time you finished work?

Brilliant - that's perfect. Should be done by 8.30/9 so time to get home and boot (perhaps even stroll) across town and maybe catch some of luftkluster/luftfluks/henning too!

 

[skinny wolves]

Video for the "Glistening Bridge" by SOMADRONE

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[skinny wolves]

LAST CALL!!!