Psychic Powers - The Portal

Psychic Powers was a one-off collaboration in 2010...between LA-based DJ, producer and composer Ale Cohen, and Nik Brinkman, driving force behind NZ's Junica. That band should be well-known to regular readers of this blog. Junica's mostly positively-reviewed album "The Celebration" has been well-represented on NZMusic4U, and this is no accident. I believe Nik is one of NZ's best commercial prospects as a songwriter, and the knowledge of a new album in the works (with some big names attached) has me impatient to see how Nik has developed his art this time round. "The Portal" was written about the "Norway Spiral" event of 2009...explained away as a Russian missile experiment gone wrong...but which once you have seen the footage, is an explanation that is possibly a little difficult to believe in. The video for this track was recently finished off by Nik from footage put together in 2011. He's pretty good at this direction thing eh? The amazing thing is the Psychic Powers "Infinity" album is available as a free download. The whole thing. And if you like well-executed 'poppy' post-punk sounds, that looks like a bargain to me. The download link is below. I have it of course.

http://psychicpowers.bandcamp.com/album/infinity

Psychic Powers - The Portal