Psychic Graveyard, comprised of members of groups like Arab On Radar, Chinese Stars, Doomsday Student, Some Girls and All Leather, have announced new LP Wilting, due June 7th, 2024, and shared first single, “Your Smile is a Hoax.” It’s accompanied by a video.

Speaking about the song’s origin, the band says:

‘This Butthole Surfers bass guitar sounds awesome! Let’s put some synth and bass guitar together.’ That was the main impetus for creating this song—the craving for a fuzzed-out bass guitar. Over the years, we’ve realized that our songs are birthed in pairs. “Your Smile is a Hoax” is the sister to another Psychic Graveyard track off this upcoming album called “Haunted By Your Bloodline”.

Both feature the use of two low-register instruments playing off of each other, with a higher synth note popping obnoxiously out of the mix. We feel as though it helps keep the chaos grounded. Those higher swirl elements come from a forgotten field recording of an ambulance passing by Nate’s house in San Diego. Lyrically, it fills in the listener on some of our experiences as an afflicted band in today’s world, traveling all over the place while we’re wounded, but somehow having a blast while we’re out there—bleeding everywhere.

The band have created four full-length albums, including Loud As Laughter, A Bluebird Vacation, Veins Feel Strange, and now Wilting, in nearly as many years.

On the new LP Wilting, once again a product of “geographic dispersion” working between Providence and San Diego, the band invites the listener to “fall headlong” into their “twitchy waking dream.”