Altered Zones

It's summertime in the Northern Hemisphere, and summer jams are here to be embraced. You'll find that Maria Minerva's reprise for Psychic Dancehall's "Long Lost Lover" fits perfectly in your hot summer night's playlist. Minerva morphs the original track into a sexy lounge house with swirling, elusive effects and fainted, "white & neurotic" vocals, rendering an interesting club sound. --Coco Zoabi, International Tapes

MP3: Psychic Dancehall: "Long Lost Lover (Maria Minerva Reprise)"

The A Love That Kills 7" is available now via Art Fag; stay tuned for more news on Maria Minerva's Cabaret Cixous, out soon on Not Not Fun

Coupling an ultra-San Diegan scuzz with bygone '70s West Coast romanticism, Psychic Dancehall's take on reverberant, semi-retrograde noise pop is drenched in a holed-up/tucked-away love that Serge Gainsbourg might dig. Whispered lyrics, smooth drum beats, and pulsing keyboards characterise the duo's gritty, ultra-sensual exchange, carrying a low-lit and world-endlingly pretty moment of curtains shrouded in cigarette smoke. --Richard MacFarlane, Rose Quartz

MP3: Psychic Dancehall: "A Love That Kills"

The Love That Kills 7" is out on Art Fag