Psychic TV/PTV3 - Hell Is Invisible, Heaven Is Here

Diffi-cult

The multi-layered intensity of the artistic context surrounding the making and delivering of this album in a sense precludes the very concept of an “album review”. Humans, however, thrive (and fail, or flail) on communication in any manner of planes so, as best we can, we’ll try and offer an overview of a project which goes far beyond sonic manifestation into a shamanic, histrionic, historical and mystical sphere.

The latest incarnation of Psychic TV plays with not only sexuality but the very building blocks of linear time and existence. DNA, they say, is an “evolutionary parasite”; humans are infected throughout the generations to perpetuate it. Hell Is Invisible… tracks – in a suitably esoteric way – the journey from death to resurrection, or from pain to enlightenment (or vice versa, if the philosophical ideas themselves are valid) from the standpoint of pandrogyny, which is based on the similarities, rather than differences, between genders. The album on the stereo, then, is a gateway to higher thought: a single strand of an intriguing and challenging multi-dimensional exploration of the, or a particular, universe in which the written word must somehow attempt to harness the ineffable. And it sounds exactly like Stanley Kubrick produced it, were he high as a kite.

3 stars 3 stars 3 stars

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Reviewed by Joe Shooman
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