Chrome Sparks, Angelica Bess, Jorge Elbrecht and Deniro Farrar contribute
Published Jul 29, 2021
Following last year s collaborative outing
A View of U, Machinedrum has got another group of musical friends together for a follow-up EP. Producer Travis Stewart will share
Psyconia on September 10 through Ninja Tune.
The six-song
Psyconia features work with
A View of U collaborator Chrome Sparks, Body Language s Angelica Bess, North Carolina MC Deniro Farrar, and visual artist and musician Jorge Elbrecht.
Opener Only One, featuring vocals from Bess and drums from Ian Maciak, is the first song to arrive, and you can hear it below.
Psyconia s title combines the words psychic and syconia, the latter being the plural form of syconium. A press explains that in botany, syconium is a fleshy hollow receptacle, containing numerous flowers which develop together into a multiple fruit, as in the fig. The fig-like instrument that appears on the EP s cover, seen above, was
Scottish new music round-up: May 2021
With A LOT coming out this month, we ve done our best to highlight some of the new stuff we re most excited about, including Carla J. Easton and Simon Liddell of Frightened Rabbit s glorious new project Poster Paints Feature by Tallah Brash | 05 May 2021
There are a few big hitters this month from scene veterans like Sharleen Spiteri s
Texas and Justin Currie’s
Del AmItri, while Idlewild frontman
Roddy Woomble returns with his latest solo record,
Lo! Soul. But there’s also a heck of a lot of other stuff coming out this month, as the return of live music begins to look like more of a possibility in the not-too-distant future.