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Q MagazineMar 12, 2013Fans of early Beck, Spacemen 3 and Galaxie 50 will love it. [Apr 2013, p.109]
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Feb 26, 2013Ten years into their career, Psychic Ills have tamed themselves, refining into a form, but the result remains a hypnotic set of songs that consistently achieve an introspective and cerebral kind of psychedelia.
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Feb 19, 2013These songs stick in your head in a way that 15-minute guitar jams never do, while still maintaining a bit of hoary mystery at their core.
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Feb 22, 2013One Track Mind aims for the feel of a great dusty road-trip album, and only through its staggering consistency does it slightly fall short of such heights. But when it hits its highs, as if often does, the collection is a transcendent experience.
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UncutMar 29, 2013"FBI" sounds like a comatose disco track being sung in a toilet, but the default position is a weirdly bluesy take on Krautrock. [May 2013, p.75]
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Mar 21, 2013The Brooklyn trio’s fourth finds itself cozy in the vein of its predecessor, Hazed Dream.
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Feb 19, 2013It's as if the Brian Jonestown Massacre hired J Mascis to write its material, solid songcraft disguised as stoned slack.
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Feb 19, 2013The washy blend of acoustic dirges, blown-out guitar tones, and lonely psychedelic character sketches solidify into an increasingly accessible sound from this once ungrounded act, without losing any of the group's character or inspiration.
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Apr 15, 2013While there is a satisfying absence of polish, there is a feeling of substantial professionalism to the whole of One Track Mind.
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Feb 21, 2013Vocals by Tres Warren sneer and paces stumble. While appealing in small doses, we’ve all heard this long before from Lou Reed.
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Feb 19, 2013Psychic Ills continue to produce music that succeeds by repetition, a trick that can’t hold up for everyone or in every situation.
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Feb 19, 2013Considering the band's taste for zoning out to infinity, One Track Mind really needed a harsher edit. With some tightening and pruning, it could have burst into bloom.
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The WireApr 24, 2013This particular experiment has left a formerly unpredictable group sounding as though they've been replaced by a bunch of tired retromaniacs. [Apr 2013, p.61]