Spirit Guide: Early Recordings 1995–2008

by Psychic Lines

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1.	Tryna Sleep 00:42	buy track
2.	Jojo at Riverside High 01:47	buy track
3.	Miles of Tape 02:16	buy track
4.	Get Off Your High Horse and Dance 00:43	buy track
5.	Vitiligo 01:30	buy track
6.	Skeleton Junkie 01:52	buy track
7.	Roamin' 'Round the Country (With My Tongue Cut Off) 02:32	buy track
8.	Don't Touch That Dial 01:01	buy track
9.	Song I Wanted Dionne Warwick to Sing 01:43	buy track
10.	Further Instructions 01:02	buy track
11.	Sneaky Demon 01:46	buy track
12.	The Lawnmower Man Cometh 03:00	buy track
13.	Look at the Signs! 02:10	buy track
14.	Silly String 'N' Milky Way 01:46	buy track
15.	A Tiny Crumb 03:07	buy track
16.	Eruption 1666 01:15	buy track
17.	It's Alright, It Could Be Worse 00:58	buy track
18.	Horseflies R We 02:43	buy track
19.	Thru the Red Door 03:42	buy track
20.	And Everyone Is Waiting 01:11	buy track

about

Spirit Guide: Early Recordings 1995–2008 is a collection of twenty unreleased outtakes, demos, and sketches from thirteen very formative years.

The oldest tracks on Spirit Guide flash back to 1995 in Louisville, Kentucky, when I was 14 years old and just starting to get into making music. I would sample cassette tapes from my Walkman into the home computer and arrange those samples into notes using a sequencing app, with the little music theory I knew.

I was also tuning into a lot of alternative and classic rock radio which led me to pick up the guitar. My father had an old classical from the USSR and I began playing around with it without really knowing what I was doing. He eventually taught me some chords and later that year got me a cheap electric and practice amp. Before long I was drilling Black Sabbath riffs and recording zany little audio experiments on my cassette deck. I enjoyed exploring the sonic possibilities available to me with the electric.

Toward my late teens, I was beginning to dabble in four-track recording and had put together an eclectic band called Liberation Jumpsuit with some college pals. By the time I moved to Brooklyn in 2003, I was getting deeper into the recording process and found work as a studio runner to see what that world was like. My housemates were also musicians and enthusiastic about collaboration, which spurred me on to record more sketches and demos, which led to Cubicle Puppets, the first Psychic Lines album released in 2008 under the name PJ Glauberzon.

This sonic odyssey is laid out in the twenty tracks on Spirit Guide curated from the hundreds of recordings committed to tape and file in that timespan. Oh and everything is jumbled up to make it a little more interesting. Hope you enjoy the ride! -PJ

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released October 2, 2020

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Psychic Lines Brooklyn, New York

Psychic Lines is the work of Phil Jacob. He currently resides in Brooklyn, New York, by way of Kentucky and Virginia.

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