Psychic Ills – 'One Track Mind' review
While there’s nothing particularly ignoble about making music to get nicely blazed to, Psychic Ills’ brazenly basic approach to achieving that goal – namely, straightforward, pastiche-heavy, mid-tempo, fuzzed-out rock songs, one after another after another – comes across so lazily that one wonders if they’re maybe pursuing their goal a little too eagerly.
Accordingly, One Track Mind –appropriately named given its slender imagination – presents the listener with a conveyor belt of standard psych tropes, in which we have a lot of driving down roads (yeah) and losing one’s mind (yeah) set against heavy-lidded grooves and stodgy, if sporadically catchy, two-finger riffs. Several of One Track Mind’s songs are perfectly pleasant – particularly the insistent earworms of Might Take A While and One More Time – but taken as a whole, this is 45 minutes of meat-and-potatoes stoner-dude rock-by-numbers: functional, but bland.
4/10
