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Lineup: Psychic Love, Burned Out, Blood Candy"It’s fitting that Psychic Love emerge from Los Angeles, the one city where the hollow prophesy of the psychic hotline might come true. The band offers an ethereal soundtrack to a city dotted by as many medical marijuana dispensaries as DIY-Spanish-language Pentecostal churches, sometimes side by side in its endless strip malls, all patrons blissfully numb from self-medication, where the realest pain affects phantom limbs and “in a hall of mirrors / everything gets much clearer. Their single’s cover art, a simple black-and-white photograph of masked men descriptively titled “Nixon, Ford, Death, 1976,” snapped by noted Los Angeles ‘70s youth culture photographer Mark James Powers at the Human Be-in in Sacramento, sets the tone for Mirrors // Medicine. The first track on their new 7-inch, “Mirrors,” couples dark guitar with frontwoman Laura Peters’ lush and textured vocals, which manage to balance world-weary knowing with hopeful naïveté. The syncopated beat of B-side “Medicine” endows its creepiness—Exhibit A: it’s recurring chorus of “You would be so much happier if I’d just drink my medicine”—with enough propulsion to arrive at the imagery of everyday speech, “killing ants on the tile floor,” and then our ordinary hyperbole, “you love all that blood and gore.” Though thus far confined to Silver Lake clubs including El Cid and Satellite, you don’t have to call Miss Cleo to know that Psychic Love will soon be headlining much larger venues, showcasing their sexy, slightly eerie brand of LA alt-rock. Be warned, once you’ve heard Psychic Love, as Peters herself reminds us in “Medicine,” “You can’t go back.” "- Vlad Osso, Molussus