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Psychic City (Voodoo City)
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Psychic City (Voodoo City)
Released: Jul 28, 2009
Label: DFA

General Info

  • Genre: Alternative / Electronica / Indie

    Location Western American Utopian Triangle, California, Un

    Profile Views: 2278477

    Last Login: 12/7/2011

    Member Since 2/22/2005

    Website teamyacht.com

    Record Label DFA Records

    Type of Label Unsigned

  • Bio

    YACHT IS NOT A CULT. YACHT is a Band, Belief System, and Business conducted by Jona Bechtolt and Claire L. Evans of Marfa, Texas and Portland, Oregon, USA. All people are welcome to become members of YACHT. Accordingly, YACHT is and always will be what YACHT is when YACHT is standing before you. YACHT is about group consciousness. YACHT is about the individual man or woman. If you believe these assertions to be contradictory, consider the Triangle: it is both a collection of points and a shape. The Triangle is also a concept map between three points. But it is not merely a concept. YACHT believes all things, hopes all things, has endured many things, and hopes to be able to endure all things. If there is anything principled or pleasing, YACHT seeks it. YACHT seeks to explore frontiers and to expand awareness of extraterrestrial Intelligence -- which is not only real, but necessary. YACHT believes in reforming an adequate language by coining new words. Through this and other processes, YACHT applies principles that demand the existing relationship between human beings and the other animals be changed. YACHT believes in an Afterlife. YACHT does not believe in "Heaven," or "Hell." YACHT encourages online dissemination of all things. YACHT believes "Free Wi Fi" is not an advertisement of services, but a political statement. Secondary interpretation of YACHT and the Triangle is not forbidden, but strongly frowned upon. YACHT is always available for consultation at the source (please email trust@teamyacht.com), so misinterpretations are unnecessary and will always be corrected. A general policy of openness and light has been instated. YACHT believes that to all people have a right to Free thought, Free expression, to write their opinions freely and to counter, utter, and write upon the opinions of others. There is a difference between Free as in "Free Lunch" and Free as in "Liberated." YACHT believes that music and the Internet will become both, in time. That said, YACHT will never participate in "flame war" culture. No additional information will be divulged for the time being.

  • Members

    Jona Bechtolt, Claire L. Evans, Bobby Birdman, Jeffrey Jerusalem, Katy Davidson

  • Influences

    Yoko Ono, The Fabulous Stains, Bruno Munari, The Descendents, Dirty Projectors, Sandii & The Sunsetz, Carl Sagan, Bad Brains, Little Wings, Cassie, Dan Flavin, White Rainbow, Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, Veneer Magazine, Matthew Chambers, JC and the Killers, Arthur C. Clarke, Steve Reich, R. Kelly, The Way of the Peaceful Warrior, Nirvana, Lucky Dragons, Yayoi Kusama, E*Rock, Marfa, TX, James Brown, Arthur Russell, The Notorious B.I.G., E*Vax, Rick A. Ross, AOK/Adrian Orange/Thanksgiving, Clipse, Paper Rad, Andrew W.K., Terry Riley, Supreme Master Ching Hai, Ryann Bosetti, aliens.

  • Sounds Like

    "Whatever lies beyond, it's going to have a groove" — The New York Times "A triumph" (Best New Music) — Pitchfork "Precisely programmed digital ear candy" — Rolling Stone "The most exciting avant-garde outfit to flourish since The Knife" — NME "They make you want to dance" — The Guardian "Dreamy pop tracks that sound like artifacts from another planet" — Billboard "Brainy and block-rocking rarely coexist like this" — Entertainment Weekly "They make you want to dance" — SPIN "A blazing pop package... genius" — Dazed and Confused "Their music is artisanal cotton candy: one part Tom Tom Club, one part Yoko Ono" — The New Yorker "Dancing and thinking at the same time—that's their thing" — The Village Voice "The energy they brought, the aerobic choreography, the propelling beats, and the catchy repetitive mantras were irresistible" — Vanity Fair "A more modern take on Suicide, Sonic Youth, Bush Tetras and ESG" — Variety "DFA's weirdest band" — CMJ "Don't miss the boat on YACHT" — The FADER "Bechtolt's hip-hop-influenced beats make you want to dance like you're a 10-year-old in aerobics class" — Venus Magazine "Being indie rock's Timbaland ain't easy" — VIBE Magazine "After spinning YACHT's new one, I Believe in You. Your Magic Is Real, we are prepared to echo the album title's assessment with respect to the artist himself" — Time Out New York "YACHT's not just music, it's a way of life" — PAPERMAG "Triangles are heavily incorporated, and there are many good reason for that" — Stereogum "YACHT Became This Week's Biggest Artist In The World" — Idolator "Jona Bechtolt is no more a normal human being than a toaster is a Ferrari" — austinist.com "YACHT smells wonderful. I must say, all the time he spent in our bus, it was as if a cool breeze was blowing through my mind. and good songs, too!" — James Murphy, LCD Soundsystem "YACHT = megaphysical." — Devendra Banhart "Positive energy rainbow dome music from a next-generation west coast healer." — Dave Longstreth, Dirty Projectors "YACHT is a true renaissance man, feel his magic zap you with its lightning bolt made of awesome." — Architecture in Helsinki

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