{"product_id":"frances-chang-psychedelic-anxiety-features-obi-strip","title":"Frances Chang - Psychedelic Anxiety [Features Obi-strip]","description":"\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eCat. no: LPRL73\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eFormat: LP Features Obi-strip\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eBarcode: 676525715103 \u003cbr\u003eRelease Date: 16 Feb 2024\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eGenre: Rock\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ePsychedelic Anxiety, as a mood, goes something like this: overwhelming, existential, vertigoic, arising when we stare into the void\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThis metaphysical unease also serves as the title for Brooklyn-based musician Frances Chang's second album, and as a feeling it's present throughout, charged by all things occultish.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eRecorded 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 refning 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\"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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eLP Features Obi-strip Tracks: Spiral in Houston \/ Eye Land \/ Ya A Mirage \/ Sci-Fi Soap Opera \/ Darkside \/ First I Was Afraid \/ Body of the Lightning \/ Rate My Aura \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"RAMP LOCAL","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43091671875740,"sku":"LPRL73","price":23.02,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0130\/8714\/6043\/files\/0_e9f69b23-f857-44b0-bdab-053405a0dfa8.jpg?v=1707911239","url":"https:\/\/www.horizonsmusic.co.uk\/products\/frances-chang-psychedelic-anxiety-features-obi-strip","provider":"Horizons Music","version":"1.0","type":"link"}