Psychic TV, "Hell Is Invisible...Heaven Is Here"

Psychic TV, “Hell Is Invisible....Heaven Is Here”The strange, and rather cool, Psychic TV has a new album out, the first since the mid-1990s. Here’s my review, up at Dusted today: “Psychic TV, the genre (and gender) bending musical conundrum headed by Genesis P-Orridge, was on hiatus for nearly a decade, starting in the mid-1990s through a couple of years ago. That's a long time, for the band that holds the current Guinness Book of Records notch for most albums recorded (14 in 18 months!), but it doesn't seem to have done the band much harm. Hell Is Invisible...Heaven Is Here has more than a whiff of the past about it – clanking post-punk bass lines, rave-kid hedonistic choruses, new wave Cure-ified keyboards, fey gothic horrors and world-y fusion – but it also exists quite vehemently in the here and now. “P-Orridge, in his long career, has been gleefully all over the map, from his early days with industrial forefathers Throbbing Gristle, through his multi-media experiments to his brief reign as an oddball pop star (with 1986's "Godstar"). He invented the term "acid house" in 1988, and became a fixture in the London rave scene of the late-1980s and early 1990s. But then in the middle of the last decade, he tired of it all and left music to focus on his spoken word projects. It was only with the strong and steady persuasion of ex-Toilet Boys drummer Edward ODowd that P-Orridge began to consider reviving Psychic TV. The core group – P-Orridge, Persson, ODowd, David Maxxx and Alice Genese – began performing in late 2003 and recorded this material in 2005 and 2006.” (And more here: http://www.dustedmagazine.com/reviews/3751)I can’t find any MP3s, and the MOG player crapped out after an hour of uploading...but here’s a radio show where Psychic TV performed some of the songs on this album. If you paste this link into your real player, it should work. (It’s not ALL Psychic TV, but mostly.)http://wfmu.org/listen.ram?show=20333&archive=29960 And the MySpacehttp://www.myspace.com/ptv3