Dizzy Magic by Syko Friend

For fans of Big Thief, Poor Creature, The New Eves, early minimalist post rock, and the psychedelic energy subconsciously emanating from traditional Western folk music, Dizzy Magic by Syko Friend uses looping song structures to freely improvise in a tightly emotionally pointed setting. Twirling guitar leads form complex rhythmic cycles with help from minimal bass and drums, encouraging the type of meditative focus which the vocals then capitalize upon. Abstracting emotional turmoil and environmental instability into obscure, unknowable magic, a series of silky smooth chants invite us to forgive ourselves for our shortcomings in understanding and controlling every element of our lives. As we round these musical circuits, patterns in our thoughts, our days, our problems, and our reactions appear before us, uniting our every move with the same strings that pull the earth into new mornings and the skies into new seasons. Something out there keeps the cycle spinning, and we must harmonize with the motion or lose our minds fighting the pull.