Frances Chang - Frances Chang - Psychedelic Anxiety [Vinyl]
Barcode: 676525715103

Psychedelic Anxiety, as a mood, goes something like this: overwhelming, existential, vertigoic, arising when we stare into the void. This metaphysical unease also serves as the title for Brooklyn-based musician Frances Changs second album, and as a feeling its present throughout, charged by all things occultish.

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 Changs 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 Houston 2. Eye Land 3. Ya A Mirage 4. Sci-Fi Soap Opera 5. Darkside 6. First I Was Afraid 7. Body of the Lightning 8. Rate My Aura

• Format Detail: LP Features Obi-strip
• Format: Vinyl
• Genre: Rock

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