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PSYCHIC ILLS (Sacred Bones… FACEBOOK)
NIGHT BEATS (Garagey Psych, Trouble in Mind… FACEBOOK)
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at Golden West
From Wikipedia;
Psychic Ills is an experimental rock/psychedelic rock band from New York, USA. The current line-up consists of Tres Warren(guitar, vocals), Elizabeth Hart(bass), Dan Wise(guitar) , Brandon Davis (keyboard) and Chris Millstein (drums). Their first full length album, Dins, was released in early 2006 with the painting, “Three Hairs and Shadow” by German Fluxus artist Wolf Vostell as the cover art.
The Village Voice named them Best Psych Rock Band in their 2006 Best of NYC issue.
In early 2008 they performed in Marfa, Texas for the opening of the Hello Meth Lab In The Sun art installation, and at the Contemporary Art Museum in Bordeaux France for the IAO festival. In 2009 they released Mirror Eye and toured the US with Butthole Surfers.
For 2011’s Hazed Dream, the band moved to Sacred Bones and opted for a more streamlined, accessible approach.
Members of Psychic Ills have been involved in various other projects. Elizabeth Hart plays bass with Effi Briest and performs with the improvisational dance and music ensemble Skint. Tres Warren collaborates with visual artist Taketo Shimada as Messages and with Drew McDowall of Coil as Compound Eye. Former drummer Brian Tamborello participated in the Boredoms Boadrum projects and played drums on Mike Wexler’s record Sun Wheel.
From Get Bent;
“As the first notes of this album began to play, my face automatically contorted in pleasure. It probably wasn’t very pretty, but I really don’t care. Every part of my body began to bop about in its awkward little way, and I began to jam. If King Khan and the Black Lips and Ty Segall somehow were able to conceive a musical baby, this would most assuredly be it. Night Beats manage to be a soulful and psychedelic yet surfy brand of garage rock. These kids are based from Seattle now, but 2/3 of the band originally hails from Texas. It’s easy to pick up the 13th Floor Elevators references, along with several other Texan psych staples. It was hard for me to pick just one offering for you, dear listeners, because every song on the album highlighted another facet of their insane talent. Night Beats supplied a psychedelic odyssey that clocked in at 7:12, and then offset it with several bangers under the 3:00 mark. Standouts include “Puppet On A String”, “Dial 666”, “The Other Side”, and “Halucinojenny.” Enjoy the melty, fuzzy, face-contorting goodness”
