PSYCHIC ILLS

Oh no, just no. This is one of the worse disappointments of this year. Don't take me bad, psych sound is a feat you cannot deny to admit about Psychic Ills, but it is a very specific kind - hypnotical. Which can induce sleep, headache, boredom, but rarely something that could be described as a pleasant emotion. Mumbled vocals (the kind of echoing microphone), subtle variations of what serves as a melody here. There is perfectly exampled something like "sound of nothing". The music goes nowhere, it simply sits on a butt and looks arounds, cluelessly. No offense to musicians involved, but this is way out of line.

This album combines abstract sound walls built up from tribal instruments, electronic sounds and echo processions, and then quite repetitive psych rock passages. I really enjoyed the ambient like sound realms which this band produced, but the rock elements here weren't very excellent, so though I first had quite positive impressions from this record, the later part of the album with two over eight minutes longs of rock tracks lacking interesting aspects or musical content lowered my enthusiasm towards it. Minimalistic approach and repetition can be enjoyable, if the elements which build up the trance are pleasant, but the end result here was in my opinion quite bland. Also, due low recording levels and reverbs I was unable to comprehend anything from the singing, but maybe it was not very important anyway. If you're a fan of the style of this stuff, check this band out as you might like them more than me.