The Psychotic Monks

Previous Praise for The Psychotic Monks:

“Throughout, oppressive atmospherics pervade everything, conjuring a sense of dystopian dread.” - Kerrang! Magazine 4/5 (Private Meaning First)

"As closers go (‘Every Sight’), it’s the perfect album abstract, pulling all of the ominous energy that preceded into one final, howling blast. Good stuff."  - Loud & Quiet (Private Meaning First)

“The Psychotic Monks pound out their frustrations and fears on the pyromaniac ‘isolation’” - Beats Per Minute

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After two fiery albums, Silence Slowly And Madly Shines in 2017 (Alter K) and Private Meaning First in 2019 (Vicious Circle / Fatcat Records), The Psychotic Monks have never ceased to impress us with their maturity and determination to offer a singular stage and discographic presence. 

Today they announce their third album Pink Colour Surgery, out 3rd February 2022 via Fatcat Records / Vicious Circle which is produced by Daniel Fox of Gilla Band - it’s composed in part by improvisations, and arrives as an act of resistance to the ambient violence. Disconcerting at first sight, this new opus operates in the dark a surgery of ethics which is fleshed out of pink for a staggering metamorphosis. Its very structure embarks us entirely on an initiatory trip full of secret corners, provided that we accept to dive into it, to plunge into it. 

For the first taster of the new record, they share blistering new single ‘Post-Post-’.  

"At first, Post-Post- seems to be like a 2-in-1 song,” the band says on the track. “But in fact, it’s more like the two sides of the exact same coin, where the one part cannot exist without the other. It’s about one's relation to their body and feelings, how to interact with other people and how to deal with them in a post-romantic, post-social, post-covid, post-post- world." 

The video is directed by Clara Marguerat, and features a performance by the french drag king artist Nixe Amère. The first half of the video depicts a modern representation of the Nixie tale, and the second half shows a woman with a plague doctor mask exorcising things she has inside of her through liberating actions - themes about one's relation to their body and how to interact with other people in a post post- world are abound.

 Yet radical, Pink Colour Surgery’s work is truly accessible to those who immerse themselves in it in depth. One is unceasingly hypnotised, shaken, because its soul flirts dangerously with a furious and oppressive trance. How then the journey becomes addictive, letting yourself slide from one track to another, sometimes struck, sometimes set ablaze with an unexpected epiphany, because its light irradiates us. Live their music is an intimate, sensory experience, whose deflagration is still received long after.

 Pink Colour Surgery is like a hidden room in a house that we have never entered before, and the possibility of feeling good there is not excluded.