PSYMON SPINE Announce New Album 'Head Body Connector'
Psymon Spine have announced the February 23 release of their new album, Head Body Connector.
By: Michael Major Jan. 16, 2024
Brooklyn-band Psymon Spine - Noah Prebish, Peter Spears, and Brother Michael - have announced the February 23 release of their new album, Head Body Connector via Northern Spy Records.
The LP is a gritty, punchy, guitar-forward studio record from a band obsessed with production. It's also a record that, more so than any previous Psymon release, is explicitly informed by the band's notoriously cathartic live show. “It's more unhinged than anything we've made before,” says Prebish, “Throughout the writing process, we were always asking ourselves how we could make it really fun to play live.”
Having already teased the album with “Boys,” today they share a new taste of Head Body Connector with the irreverent “Wizard Acid,” a woozy disco track loaded with catchy synths. The track premiered via Flood Magazine who note, “‘Wizard Acid' (pairs) a tight, funky nu-disco instrumental with lyrics about coming apart at the seams.”
The band told them, “‘Wizard Acid' is part allegory, part nonsense, encapsulating elements of cabin fever, dread and humor. We melded one of Michael's early demos with one of Peter's, creating one unholy coupling which eventually took the form of a shapeshifting disco jam. It sat instrumental for a couple months until Peter sent over some lyrics detailing a narrator slowly consumed by their sentient house, or perhaps losing their mind (maybe both?).”
Listen/share “Wizard Acid” here and watch the video, directed by Dana Roth, here:
In support of Head Body Connector, Psymon Spine have announced a U.S. tour this Spring followed by dates in the UK and Europe. The tour kicks off March 10 in Nashville, TN and makes a stop at SXSW before a hometown show at Brooklyn's Baby's All Right on March 23. Tickets are on sale here and all dates are listed below.
Imbued with a sense of disorienting euphoria, Head Body Connector embraces abstract pop as a vessel in which to explore time and change. The follow up to 2021's Charismatic Megafauna, the 3rd full-length offering from Psymon Spine is both an ode to the dissonance of temporality, and an ecstatic tribute to friendship and harmony in the face of that dissonance.
Ironically Head Body Connector, though ready-made to be performed, was mostly written in 2020, when shows were not happening. The band split their time between various home studios and friends' back porches in Montauk, the Catskills, Boston, and Brooklyn. Outside it was fall, crisp autumn air, political disquietude looming in the background lending itself to an undeniable longing for companionship.
“It felt like we had collectively jumped from one timeline to another, more bizarre one,” says Noah. The theme of time - fractured, chopped, and screwed - is central both to the songs and album art for HBC, the latter of which was designed by New York-based artist Bucky Boudreau. It appears in the form of alternative measurements of passing seconds, minutes, days, lifetimes - a cracked egg, tally marks on a chalkboard, and infinity signs made of camp bracelets.
“Head Body Connector is our response to a world even more chaotic than usual,” says Peter Spears, “and an exploration of the little joys, anxieties, and absurdities that world has to offer.”
About Psymon Spine
Psymon Spine's origins date back to Prebish and Spears meeting in college and finding common ground in their artistic aims: “We wanted to make something that was experimental, but also accessible and satisfying,” Prebish states. In 2015 they dropped their self-titled debut EP and in 2021 Charismatic Megafauna. Along the way Psymon Spine have become figures in the Brooklyn dance scene known for their recurring party Secret Friend.
Psymon Spine tour dates
March 10 - The Basement - Nashville TN
March 11 - Wiseacre Brewing - Memphis TN
March 12 - WOMH - Houston TX
March 13 - SXSW - Austin TX
March 14 - SXSW - Austin TX
March 15- SXSW - Austin TX
March 16 - New New Fest - Dallas TX
March 17 - Saturn Bar - New Orleans LA
March 18 - 529 - Atlanta GA
March 19 - Different Wrld - Asheville NC
March 20 - Richmond Music Hall - Richmond VA
March 21 - Pie Shop - Washington DC
March 22 - Silk City - Philadelphia PA
March 23 - Baby's All Right - Brooklyn, NY
May 15 - Lexington - London UK
May 18 - Paradiso - NL Amsterdam (London Calling Festival)
May 20 - POPUP! - FR Paris
May 21 - Cactus Café - Bruges BE
May 23 - Yuca Club - Cologne DE
May 24 - Turmzimmer (Uebel & Gefährlich) - Hamburg DE
May 25 - Ideal Bar - Copenhagen DK
May 27 - Urban Spree - Berlin DE
May 28 - Bardzo Bardzo - Warsaw PL
May 30 - Cross Club - Prague CZ
June 1 - Rhiz (Bar Modern) - Vienna AT
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