{"id":5262,"date":"2016-11-30T10:39:36","date_gmt":"2016-11-30T15:39:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/agitreader.com\/wp2\/?p=5262"},"modified":"2016-12-15T13:20:37","modified_gmt":"2016-12-15T18:20:37","slug":"psychic-tv-alienist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/agitreader.com\/wp2\/psychic-tv-alienist\/","title":{"rendered":"Psychic TV <br>Alienist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/agitreader.com\/wp2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/psychic_tv-alienist.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-5264\" src=\"http:\/\/agitreader.com\/wp2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/psychic_tv-alienist.jpg\" alt=\"Psychic TV, Alienist\" width=\"250\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/agitreader.com\/wp2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/psychic_tv-alienist.jpg 250w, https:\/\/agitreader.com\/wp2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/psychic_tv-alienist-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/><\/a>Genesis Breyer P-Orridge\u2019s long-running Psychic TV collective indulges and tweaks its classicist tendencies with their latest report from drilling into the substrate of consciousness, <i>Alienist<\/i> (Angry Love Productions). Performing covers for half of the four-track record, PTV builds its version of Harry Nilsson\u2019s early \u201970s hit \u201cJump Into the Fire\u201d around John Weingarten\u2019s rock-solid piano and Edley O\u2019Dowd\u2019s snare and shakers, simultaneously conjuring \u201960s R&amp;B and classic house. The subtlety of the arrangement highlights a sensuality buried in the original\u2019s stomp-and-grind. P-Orridge\u2019s vocal finds new nuances here in the breakdown midway through the track. He spits out the chorus of \u201cI can break you down\u201d with flattened effect as the other instruments shudder behind. That stopping leaves room for \u201cWe can make each other happy\u201d to rise, starting with barely a whisper. That line slips into a dreamy refrain of \u201chappy\u2026 happy\u2026 happy,\u201d like P-Orridge is turning the word, the very concept, over like tumbling a precious stone to restore a luster that\u2019s always just a little out of reach. As the band surges back to life, the catharsis feels well-earned, bathed in acidic guitar and howled backing vocals.<\/p>\n<p>The other look back at the hit parade, \u201cHow Does It Feel to Feel,\u201d made famous by The Creation, is a gleeful showcase for Jeff \u201cBunsen\u201d Burner\u2019s guitar. P-Orridge\u2019s vocals are planted solidly in classic glam-rock territory as the rhythm section of Alice Genese and O\u2019Dowd lean into the garage groove behind Weingarten\u2019s wheezing, surging organ. It\u2019s a joyous, brief palate cleanser amidst longer tracks like the closing eponymous cut. On \u201cAlienist,\u201d P-Orridge\u2019s character mutters, \u201cAlienist, psychologist, inside my head, inside my brain\u201d over and over again, coming back to, \u201cIt would be easier to shake it off, to break it up.\u201d The song features a bassline by Genese that bores into the listener\u2019s head over its nine-minute length. A heartbreaking vocal matches the impotent fury inside the heartbeat of the song, \u201cDid you ever feel evil and alien? Get angry, dismayed, and weary, and teary? Begging?\u201d P-Orridge asks before closing with \u201cYou\u2019re not alone, for all our lonely\u2026\u201d leaving the thought to hang in the air.<\/p>\n<p><i>Alienist<\/i> is imbued with the understanding of the impossibility of really knowing another person, but it\u2019s the human drive to try and try again to do just that which animates the record. It\u2019s nonetheless a mixed bag, but with moments that make it essential listening for these cold days, when sometimes just the acknowledgment that there aren\u2019t any easy answers makes us feel heard.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Genesis Breyer P-Orridge\u2019s long-running Psychic TV collective indulges and tweaks its classicist tendencies with their latest report from drilling into<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2],"tags":[34,1841,1840],"class_list":["post-5262","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-album-reviews","tag-album-review","tag-angry-love-productions","tag-psychic-tv"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.1.1 - 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