Quick Breathe And Regroup

Okay, I'm going to take a quick (very quick! Momentary!) hiatus from updating here, just so I can get properly organised and start posting more interviews, photos and such like. P.S.I.M.H.G will be back on the 30th of July better than before. Until then -

SIOUXSIE SIOUX Is My Homegirl

Wishing you all an awesome weekend x

New album! New album! New album! New album!

Natasha Khan (Bat for Lashes) has announced a follow up to 2009's Two Suns. It will be titled The Haunted Man and is going to be released in October. Two Suns is one of those albums that, when it came out, I listened to it constantly. Like, in the morning while I was getting ready for school, then on my iPod on the bus going there, and again on the way home. For weeks and weeks, I loved it so damn much. And then, inevitably, got sick of it and had to stop (though it still gets in there every now and then). So needless to say I'm looking forward to some new Bat for Lashes material! Come on October!

DON'T SMOKE MY BLUNT BITCH

This song was recorded in ten mins, the video was made in less than an hour. I've watched it three times today.

Banga

'Banga meditates on ideas about exploration and adventure, and though the longer tracks tackle these themes more explicitly (the 11-minute "Constantine" was inspired, serendipitously, by a postcard she received of a Dimitri Levas painting of a conquistador), it's actually the shorter, less assuming tracks that best capture that spirit of discovery. The opener "Amerigo"-- which reimagines Vespucci taking a more sympathetic view of the indigenous people of his "new" continent-- has an infectiously buoyant energy that doesn't distract from its political consciousness... Banga pulses with the notion that there are still good books we haven't read, old ideas waiting to be fucked with, and new lands we haven't yet explored.' (Pitchfork)

Western Esotericism

So we have a new video clip from the Flaming Lips, featuring Erykah Badu. It involves nakedness and bodily fluids and has provoked all kinds of responses from people - people trying to figure out what exactly is going on and people dismissing it as a terrible song and shitty video. Myself, I like it, I think it's gorgeous and that the imagery matches the song really really well. And even though I have a pretty much non existant understanding of art criticism I managed to form an almost coherent opinion on what the video represents: Nudity and Wayne Coyne's silver flag thing aside, I think it represents the progression of a romantic relationship. From glitter (happiness, falling in love, all that carry on) to something more real and human, e.g. blood and semen, e.g. that stage where you realise your partner really does poop and fart and doesn't look like a total dream boat 24/7. What do you think? (Click here to watch the video).