Next month, guitarist/bandleader/cult leader Chris Schlarb and his group, Psychic Temple, are releasing IV, the group's fifth album (if you're counting Psychic Temple Plays Music for Airports, which released shortly after III). More and more, the multi-genre music, so hard to nail down but so beautifully lush, expressive, and designed, particularly as Schlarb steps out more as … [Read more...]
Psychic Temple – ‘III’
I was worried a couple years ago when Chris Schlarb, the band/cult-leader of the Psychic Temple, told me he was going in a more folk/pop direction in the next album. I was doing a lot of juggling of balls back then when I was hosting Schlarb's show in San Antonio in 2014 in support of his solo album, Making the Saint, but I'm not sure if Pet Sounds entered into the conversation … [Read more...]