Psycho Tropical Berlin
A hallucinatory collision of 60s surf rock and 80s coldwave. Reverb-drenched guitars meet icy synths for a dark, quintessentially French night out.
April 8, 2013 · Born Bad Records
A hallucinatory collision of 60s surf rock and 80s coldwave. Reverb-drenched guitars meet icy synths for a dark, quintessentially French night out.
April 8, 2013 · Born Bad Records
Psycho Tropical Berlin is a record that exists in the friction between two worlds: the sun-bleached, reverb-soaked shores of 1960s California and the grey, industrial concrete of 1980s Berlin. It is an album that feels both vintage and futuristic, utilizing the twang of surf guitars to cut through thick layers of analog synthesizers. The result is a sound that La Femme calls 'psycho-tropical,' a term that perfectly captures the fever-dream quality of these sixteen tracks. It is music for the witching hour, where the playful melodies of French yé-yé pop are twisted into something more sinister and seductive.
How does Psycho Tropical Berlin sound next to the rest of La Femme's catalogue?
It runs notably hotter than this artist's baseline.
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