Our editor’s pick of the albums reviewed on these pages during the past seven days is Psycho Comedy‘s Performance Space Number One. Revisit the review and check out the album via Spotify!
“Sometimes an album just come from nowhere, existing in a world of its own, one only its creators fully understand.”
“Usually debut efforts, those creators have had the luxury of time to create aural versions of their headspaces. In the case of Psycho Comedy, they’ve been operating as a band for five years with limited releases, presumably beavering away to make their debut as close a reflection of their particular headspace as possible.”
“Immediately attention is grabbed by the opening track, a statement of intent as you’d expect from a song named after the band; a vaudevillian warped offering (think early Horrors) that pulls open the curtain to reveal the eerie realm that we are to inhabit. If you weren’t already aware that Psycho Comedy hailed from Liverpool, you will be as soon as lyricist and frontman Shaun Powell utters his first distinctive sounds. Like their spiritual forebears The Coral, they bury the tunes as much as possible, but they still make the way to the top.”