Showing posts with label Psychobuildings. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Psychobuildings. Show all posts
Tuesday, 11 May 2010
PSYCHOBUILDINGS - PORTRAIT
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Then God Is 7
Transparent did it again. Always aware of what is going on out there, their next release is the second single from one-man-band Psychobuildings from who I reviewed his first single Birds of Prey not long ago. Some friends of mine had the opportunity of seeing him live in Brooklyn last month and were as amazed by his moves and performance as they were by his songs.
The new single follows the same patterns and style as the first one (strong Robert Smith influence although more kaleidoscopic and with lots of own personality) although it's kind of a bit more funky, both songs closer to Birds of Prey's B side Paradise.
As habitual, as well, it's a limited edition of 300 that you can get through Pure Grove in the UK and Leftist Nautical Antiques in the US, although I've recently seen that Rough Trade is getting some copies of the Transparent releases as well.
The new single follows the same patterns and style as the first one (strong Robert Smith influence although more kaleidoscopic and with lots of own personality) although it's kind of a bit more funky, both songs closer to Birds of Prey's B side Paradise.
As habitual, as well, it's a limited edition of 300 that you can get through Pure Grove in the UK and Leftist Nautical Antiques in the US, although I've recently seen that Rough Trade is getting some copies of the Transparent releases as well.
Psychobuildings - Portrait.mp3
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Wednesday, 17 March 2010
PSYCHOBUILDINGS - BIRDS OF PREY
Do you remember The Glove, that one-record-only project between Robert Smith, Steven Severin (Siouxsie and the Banshees) and the model-turned-singer Jeanette Landray? So Psychobuildings sound like if the best songs of that not great record had been lost and came to light nearly 30 years later. It has the voice that incredibly reminds that of Robert circa 1983; it has the bass sound so kind of funk on that record and on the Psychobuildings single; it has the weird electro-psychedelia as well. But anyway, these songs pay more interest to rhythm, mixing New Wave sounds with funk and shine without the need of comparing them to anything.
Psychobuildings, that started as a solo project of Peter LaBier has since expanded to include Juan Pieczanski (Small Black) and Peter Schuette (Silk Flowers) and released this first single on All Hands Electric in collaboration with Cass Club.
Psychobuildings Birds of Prey.mp3
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