Frances Chang Psychedelic Anxiety

Psychedelic Anxiety, as a mood, goes something like this: overwhelming, existential, vertigoic, arising when we stare into the void. This metaphysical unease also serves as the title for Brooklyn-based musician Frances Changs second album, and as a feeling its present throughout, charged by all things occultish.Recorded by Chang and engineer Andrea Schiavelli, featuring a cast of revered NYC DIY players, including Schiavelli (Eyes of Love) and Liza Winter (Birthing Hips), Psychedelic Anxiety relishes in the refining of aesthetic, in the electricity of improvisation, in balancing bleakness with humor. It embodies an idiosyncratic genre Chang calls slacker prog offbeat, but brimming with spiritual and emotional resonance. The record infuses artifacts of the mundane with otherworldliness even the love songs live more in the realm of fantasy (or horror) than the romantic. The psychic twin and mirror image of Changs 2022 debut full-length Support Your Local Nihilist, Psychedelic Anxiety by