Simply checking the pedigrees (ex-Arab On Radar, Chinese Stars, Some Girls, Doomsday
Student, and Hot Nerdz) will only get you so far with Psychic Graveyard. With a manic output
of four full-length albums—Loud As Laughter, A Bluebird Vacation, Veins Feel Strange, and
now the brilliant Wilting–in nearly as many years, Psychic Graveyard makes consistently
thrilling and unsettled sonic artifacts for a world emptied out and flattened by a joyless and
sociopathic mediascape. But some things do stay consistent across their ruptured
anti-aesthetic: Charles Ovett’s relentless workflow on the drums; the burbling sawtooth
substructures, grimy lead synths, and deconstructed guitars supplied by Nathan Joyner and
Paul Vieira; and, of course, vocalist Eric Paul’s many narrators and personas, who find form
as ghosts howling from within the machine or as agitated surrealists living lives huddled in the
grimmest of redoubts. On the new LP Wilting, once again a product of geographic dispersion
(Providence and San Diego), the band invites the listener to peel back the pedigrees and fall
headlong into their twitchy waking dream.
-John Rieder (Secret Fun Club + Nonexistent Night)
Their latest LP Wilting is due out June 7, 2024
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