Glued to the TV by LA Timpa

For fans of Bod, William Basinski, Forma Norte, psych pop, and the Backrooms movie, Glued to the TV by LA Timpa explores a dark, lonely, exhausted corner of psychosis by hitting the crosspoint of psychedelia and hypnagogia. Each track hinges on some form of psychedelic loop, oftentimes forming a rhythmic swell with minimal or absent percussion. The slightest touches of auxiliary instrumentation like synths and guitars occupy a tiny sliver of the remaining cavernous space, a scale made all the more apparent through intense reverb and distortion on every musical element. Despite seemingly all this space for us to explore, the sheer emptiness inspires a paradoxically claustrophobic anxiety, painting this exterior as something deeply unsettling and entirely unknown. Instead, we stay close to the speaker and their mumbling vocals, finding occasional recognizable shapes, faces, and voices in the static outside before snapping back to our supposed safety within ourselves. There’s something out there looking for us, and our decision to remain motionless with averted eyes serves as our only defence against catastrophe.