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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