Mirrors For Psychic Warfare, Scott Kelly + Sanford Parker

Scott Kelly (Neurosis) and producer/engineer/sonic warlord Sanford Parker (Buried At Sea) are restless. This inquietude has culminated in another collaboration. The two work together in Corrections House, a project that also features the talents of Mike IX Williams of Eyehategod, and Bruce Lamont of Yakuza. While Corrections House seem hell-bent on impersonal bludgeon and unfettered terror, the pair’s latest project, Mirrors For Psychic Warfare by comparison – is far more restrained.
The band’s haunting self-titled debut is the sonic manifestation of insomnia, complete with the tossing, the turning, and the perennial dread that comes with facing another shabby daylight. The five songs lurch and pulsate across a desolate landscape with an almost curious obsessiveness, unlocking the door to a darkest post-punk and letting it all spill out. While Mirrors For Psychic Warfare may remind some of the best work on the classic Cold Meat Industry label, there is enough familiar Kelly/Parker-isms and vocal confessions scattered throughout to keep the album stimulating. It is a work with more in common with a fever or a fitful wraith than a record, as it heaves with a weary heart through disorientating and sparse limbos, punctuated with rips in the electronic palette and endless chains of snare sounds. Kelly’s distorted guitars and Parker’s electronics tug the sound towards exploratory and grand soundscapes. It is the union between the two that makes Mirrors For Psychic Warfare such a unique and unfamiliar listen.
Mirrors For Psychic Warfare was realized and recorded by both Kelly and Parker at Actual 13 Studio and Hypercube respectively over the course of 2015. The record was mixed and mastered by Parker and will see release on April 22nd via Neurot Recordings (order it through here).
Ahead of its global release date you can now listen to the full album here...