My Album Of The Week for the week of February 3rd-February 9th, 2014:
Psymun - Heartsick
01. myintroheyguys
02. Fuck Bush
03. Banani
04. Dead Albatross (w/Chester Watson)
05. Tape Op
06. Long Ride Home On A Painted Path In The Underground Tunnels (R.I.P. Damacha)
07. Amya
08. King Krule - Neptune Estate (Psymun Remix)
09. Psymun & K.Raydio - Jupiter
Psymun is a producer from Minneapolis whose name just keeps getting bigger and bigger. After spending the last couple of weeks with The Cloak Ox & Marijuana Deathsquads as my AOTW, I'm sincerely looking forward to spending this week with his beat tape Heartsick.
In a roundabout way I found out about Psymun via Minneapolis rapper MaLLy. MaLLy got a lot of play out of the excellent single "Good One" from his The Last Great... album. That song featured K.Raydio (who was new to me at the time) on the hook. I started looking into her work and found that she and Psymun were working on a full-length album together after finding chemistry on their single "Jupiter" (which, hopefully, you heard on Flatbasset Radio: Episode #24).
Anyway, this beat tape was designed as a stop-gap release between the "Jupiter" single and their collaborative LP LucidDreamingSkylines. That album came out last December, but I feel like it will be well worth it to spend a week with Heartsick before digging into that album (especially during what will likely be another bitterly cold week).
The album is still available as a "Name Your Price" download over on Psymun's Bandcamp page. Go give it a listen.
