Psykedelisk angst, som en stemning, er noe sånt som dette: overveldende, eksistensiell, svimmelhetsfremkallende, og oppstår når vi stirrer inn i tomrommet. Denne metafysiske uroen fungerer også som tittelen på Brooklyn-baserte musikeren Frances Changs andre album, og som en følelse er den til stede gjennom hele albumet, ladet av alt okkult.Recorded by Chang and engineer Andrea Schiavelli, featuring a cast of revered NYC DIY players, including Schiavelli (Eyes of Love) and Liza Winter (Birthing Hips), Psychedelic Anxiety relishes in the refining of aesthetic, in the electricity of improvisation, in balancing bleakness with humor. It embodies an idiosyncratic genre Chang calls slacker prog - offbeat, but brimming with spiritual and emotional resonance. The record infuses artifacts of the mundane with otherworldliness- even the love songs live more in the realm of fantasy (or horror) than the romantic. The psychic twin and mirror image of Chang's 2022 debut full-length Support Your Local Nihilist, Psychedelic Anxiety by comparison is less urgent, leaving space for more nuance and storytelling. Together, these albums represent a new cycle of creativity for Chang, a reset to zero. "Eye Land," captures Chang on a tour around the Irish and English countryside, in a moment of major life change. "Lying around your spare room," she sings, "Sky is cloudy here in June." Around her, guitar sputters and stops. Vocals branch off like vines on the side of an old house. It is a profoundly lovely song, a freaky miniature in the way that a Broadcast song is a freaky miniature. "Darkside" opens up with a particularly memorable narrative moment. "Last night I saw Parasite," sings Chang, describing how she saw it alone, how regular life that week was acute, weird, intense. How she found comfort in resignation. After all: Psychedelic Anxiety is a serene, bizarre record full of alien sounds and big introspection.1. Spiral in Houston2. Eye Land3. Ya A Mirage4. Sci-Fi Soap Opera5. Darkside6. First I Was Afraid7. Body of the Lightning8. Rate My Aura
