Psychic…Powerless…Another Man’s Sac cover

Psychic…Powerless…Another Man’s Sac

Released

These Texan psychedelic punks’ full-length debut is one of their most viscerally disturbing releases. Vocalist Gibby Haynes’ distorted caterwauling and incomprehensible lyrics draw you in, but soon make you regret your curiosity, and the band — guitarist Paul Leary, soon-to-depart bassist Bill Jolly, and drummers King Coffey and Teresa Nervosa — pound and roar around him. “Dum Dum” borrows the tumbling rhythm of Black Sabbath’s “Children Of The Grave,” and “Concubine” and “Cherub,” with their throbbing postpunk bass and warped guitar, are both hypnotic and horrifying in an almost existential way, like being trapped in a small, locked room with someone whose psyche is dissolving before your eyes.

Phil Freeman

Recommended by

Suggestions
Learning to Cope with Cowardice cover

Learning to Cope with Cowardice

Mark Stewart & The Maffia
Eldorado cover

Eldorado

Neil Young
The Jazz Composer’s Orchestra cover

The Jazz Composer’s Orchestra

Michael Mantler, Jazz Composer's Orchestra
Giant Beauty cover

Giant Beauty

أحمد [Ahmed]
Escape the Flames cover

Escape the Flames

Binker & Moses
Sacred Ceremonies cover

Sacred Ceremonies

Bill Laswell, Wadada Leo Smith, Milford Graves
Lord of Lords cover

Lord of Lords

Alice Coltrane
Tragicomic cover

Tragicomic

Vijay Iyer
Woodcuts cover

Woodcuts

Paal Nilssen-Love, Peter Brötzmann
The Peach Orchard cover

The Peach Orchard

In Order to Survive, William Parker
New Directions cover

New Directions

Jack DeJohnette