[SYRFox]

We are pleased to announce Mirror Eye, the new full-length from Psychic Ills, set to be released January 20th 2009. After spending 2007 exploring various collaborations and personal projects, the group united to record the follow up to their acclaimed debut album Dins in early 2008. The result is an altogether heady affair and, as its title suggests, a perspective reflection. Throught the course of eight tracks, Elizabeth Hart, Jimmy Seitang, Brian Tamborello and Tres Warren journey through a unique amalgamation of electronic explorations, improvised jamming and various sonic experiments that yield a record at once familiar and otherworldly.

Sprawling opener "Mantis" sets the record's tone with modulating synths and hand drums that give way to a loose groove, terrestrial guitar patterns and shamanic vocals. If you are still around when it rolls into its ending nearly 11 minutes later, its safe to say that you're on board. Following that, the open-ended trance rock of the second track, 'Meta' fades up as if the band has already been jamming on it long before the listener has been let in. It departs in a similar fashion, save for a brief reprise of reversed tape and whatever remnants of the chorus' "Meta, Meta, Meta" are hanging around in the listener's head like a contact high. "Sub Synth" is an off-the-cuff synthesizer splice that descends into the improvised space raga of "Eyes Closed." "I Take You As My Wife Again" continues deeper into the abstract with metallic synths and improvised electronics transitioning into organic percussion and whistles before ultimately arriving at its minimal techno inspired ending. "Fingernail Tea" is the most straight forward song and vaguely harkens back to elements of their previous full-length, Dins. The hallucinatory next track, "The Way Of" is the album's last burst of energy, forming out of spinning synths and clatter, and riding an eastern bass line and watery guitar riff before unravelling under percussion and goat scream mania. The final track "Go to the radio" is a come down of sorts combining two main processed loops, an electronic tambura with a circular dubbed-out field recording of a man's voice repeating the song's name and message, and perhaps the album's for that matter.

Mirror Eye is the imaginative culmination of a period of exploration for Psychic Ills. A transcendent combination of musics that symbolizes how far the band has and continues to evolve beyond genre. Psychic Ills are already hard at work on a mini-LP to follow up this release so expect to hear a lot from them over the course of 2009.

Tracklisting for Mirror Eye is as follows:

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 (9.37)
6. FINGERNAIL TEA (5.57)
7. THE WAY OF (4.52)
8. GO TO THE RADIO (2.00)

I can't wait to hear that! And it comes on the same day as the new Animal Collective album! Damnit 2009 is going to be such a good year

[SYRFox]

http://press.thesocialregistry.com/m...gernailtea.mp3
Fingernail Tea sounds really promising

[drrrtyboots]

This is such good news. Anyone in NYC during this week, catch this band. You will not be disappointed.