Video Of The Day SYKO FRIEND
Forging around 2010 in a Midwest rowdy no-wave/punk band, Tips For Twat, the Los Angeles denizen guitarist and songwriter Sophie Weil, under her Syko Friend alias, carved her visionary solo music journey, gradually tightening the grip on her early visceral and unpredictable venture into boundless bluesy and psychedelic fringes, scarred by discordant and eruptive guitar distortions, slowly grafted with subliminal and solemn folk fingerpicking wanderings, dazzling with profound emotions, ancestral spells, and intimate contemplation, all heightened with an unencumbered vocal delivery of inquisitive, passionate, and spirited intensity, which took over on her last 2022 full-length, “The Code.”
The Minnesotan artist, also a member of the band Pink Trash Can, unveils the first excerpt and title track of the upcoming fourth album, “Dizzy Magic”, scheduled for September 5th via the California independent label Post Present Medium (PPM), with a video by Aaron Anderson (Nuke Watch / Beat Detectives) and Sophie herself. Keep an eye out for the next two singles, “Red” video (8/12) and “Tapping Hearts” (9/2), on the horizon.
“Dizzy Magic” conjures an eerie, introspective mood ushered in by grinding fuzzy swathes of distorted guitar overtones that open into an arcane fingerpicking dimension, to weave a wicked obsession of creeping, sparkling stringed poignancy against softly sung female spoken words, taking the listener down an evocative, winding path of secret whispers and soulful witchy chasm to enthrall with thought-provoking esoteric mystery.
A dark outdoor location somewhere on the sidelines of a Los Angeles valley explores the nocturnal garden of Syko Friend’s mind. The clip, very lo-fi, organic, intimate, and full of thought-provoking symbolism like the lyrics, begins with a lone owl perched upon an electricity wire. Then SF, with dilated night vision eyes, walks with her shadow past some flower blooms on her way to a flight of descending stairs. She stops briefly at a pink petal-lined door of death before sitting down in the nook of a large tree. She is wearing a simple dress with a hoodie, has two braided pigtails, and sort of looks like a child, but for the deeply emotional and thoughtful expressions on her face. There are moments when she rushes around, visibly upset, as if in a panic, and other times when she stops and places her hands on her eyes as if trying to find clarity. Soul-stirring, disturbing, and transfixing all at the same time, to sync seamlessly with the intensity of the soundtrack.
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