Created in Columbus throughout 2010 (with two tracks dating back to almost year before that), the album was recorded in a variety of basements, practice spaces, living rooms, and bathrooms using almost no amplifiers and a beat up 1970's Teac reel to reel. The PR sheet says 'currently existing as the duo of Matt Horseshit (vocals / guitars / drum programming / harmonica / keyboards) and Ryan Jewell (drums / percussion / keyboards), 'Laced' also features a guest appearance by Times New Viking's Beth Murphy, who sings on 'DOA'. (1) Puff (2) Time Of Day (3) French Countryside (4) Laced (5) Tropical Vision (6) I Hate The Beach (7) Another Side (8) Revolution Wavers (9) Dead On Arrival (10) Automatic Writing (11) Making Out
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This is a frightful warning of the terrible derangements inflicted by the uncontrolled discordant use of noise.
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What Mark Tulin would’ve thought is anyone’s guess, but they said pretty much the same kind of thing about Electric Prunes in their day. Not so much an alternative dialect to the rest of Indie, as a different language entirely. They exist entirely within their own self-contained universe where all this makes some kind of sense. There are outsiders, and then there’s Psychedelic HS. It’s crappy, smudged, fractured and murky, made up of distorted jump-cuts that swoop in from unexpected angles. Now, this comes in CD, digital or vinyl formats.
PSYCHEDELIC HORSESHIT MAGIC FLOWERS DRONED PLUS
There was a 2007 LP, Magic Flowers Droned (Stiltbreeze), plus a cluttered scatter-bomb of EPs. There’s also sometime bassist Jason Roxas whose current status is uncertain. Matt Whitehurst (guitar, keyboards, vocals) and Rick Johnston (percussion) came together in Columbus, Ohio in 2006. Which pretty much sums up the Psychedelic HS perspective. ‘What’s so wonderful about reality?’ snaps back the retort. ‘What you lack is a sense of reality’ complains a sampled dialogue-voice. But as a whole, it’s more a clink-clank sound-lab that deconstructs music, and reassembles it into something approaching ‘caverns of noise’. "Another Side", with its harmonica and treated vocals is almost a song. And although the hideous cacophony of "I Hate The Beach" lapses into the soothing spacey ebb-and-flow of symphonic "Automatic Writing", the parts do not always cohere into anything as normal as ‘songs’, not that they’re intended to. "Tropical Vision" even ends with vinyl surface-hiss. Just a mounting prankster energy that neither ceases or peaks.
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PSYCHEDELIC HORSESHIT MAGIC FLOWERS DRONED TV
It’s what they used to call experimental electro, the rawest cuts of Cabaret Voltaire spliced with tape-snippets salvaged from the Psychic TV studio-floor. A dark and tumultuous lo-fi four-track sound with visceral analogue tweaks that hit you like a truck. Techno-primitive effects with zero sonic bling. Laced is a brain-storm of contagious madness about ‘getting lost in space’, which could mean anything – inner or outer space, or even a retro-TV sci-fi clunker. Not like what, for purposes of delicacy, we’ll refer to as Psychedelic HS? Are they the answer to the cultural impasse currently stalling music? – well, maybe. (FATCAT FAT-SP21) Mark Tulin of classic acid-punk psycedelicatessens Electric Prunes died 26th February 2011.