Controversia band Paranoid Alice have just released a new psychedelic music video for their new song ‘Nirvana’ inspired by the Velvet Underground and Andy Warhol’s experimental 1967 trippy light show. The track is an exploration of the bands fascination with witchcraft, psychology, sexuality, poetry and cinema. Featuring a looping drum beat, hypnotic bass and even a narcotic sitar see-sawing into the listeners psyche.
The rock band Paranoid Alice is preparing to go supernova with their huge songs celebrating stardom, black magic and tight jeans. The three-piece have declared that they have the best jeans in the music industry and that their music is so loud it creates an orgasm in the listeners pants.
”As soon as the Covid situation was over we wanted to go on the road and play everywhere, our last gig will be in Liverpool as a tribute to The Beatles who we have so much in common with.” The band have their sights on Hollywood and also want to create the soundtrack for Avatar 2 stating that their music is the future of rock, ”I’m a perfectionist and sonic auteur” says singer/guitarist Fabrizio Federico. Stay tuned for their album ‘Mental Illness For The Masses’ coming out in 2022.
A masterpiece in left-field experimental rock music, which combines every technique under the sun, from buzzsaw guitar feedback to ghostly bass, drums played with bananas, exotic sitars, and low-fi keys. Its a tidal wave of sound, linking everything that was unique about the Velvet Underground, Brian Jonestown Massacre & 80’s Jesus & Mary Chain and turns it up to 20!
Its five tracks each capture a distorted feel mixing the rumble of footsteps walking down a misty midnight alley and Jack The Ripper waiting in the wings to stick his knife down your throat. Opening track ‘Dreams Are Only Meant To Be Dreamt’ is exactly this. Drummer Mat Kenny hazely plays his drums using bananas as mallets, while bassist Luca Crews stalks the beat as it amps up. Guitarist Fabrizio Federico can be heard in the background playing spider web licks as the song dares to look into the sun until it blinds you.
Mixing psychedelic sounds, grunge, pop and classical avant-garde, the band are in a league with current bands pushing sonic bounderies such Black Midi, Empath, The Horrors, Gnoomes & Greys.
‘Morphine’ captures everything right about a band in the middle of a fist fight to break through each others eye sockets. The song speeds into an apocalypse of meyhem. ‘Pop Girl Of 1966’ has a seductive swagger as if its walking down a New York City street dressed in leopard print and Edie Sedgwick sunglasses.
As the album progresses the titles explain it all, experimental music has never been so outrageous and free as this. ‘Vietnam Underground’ is the sound of a plague of flies, voodoo feel to it, as the guitar phase creates a witchcraft sense of dread with a paranormal call and response between bass and drums similar to a Vietnamese napalm ridden jungle.
The albums closer ‘Angel Dust’ is the track that pushes the brains nerves to the absolute limits even incorporating sitar into the mix as each member dances into a tornado of supersonic future sounds leaving the listener bleeding.
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