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Psychic City

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YACHT Los Angeles, California

YACHT—Young Americans Challenging High Technology—is a post-pop trio from Los Angeles. They are neither young nor all American.

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Yacht: a place of extreme connectedness.

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On See Mystery Lights , YACHT's debut on the influential indie label DFA, Jona Bechtolt and Claire Evans mix melodic choruses, icy-cool verses and spoken-word bits that suggest old-school David Byrne . Underpinning all that are electronic beats, each warmly gurgling, snazzily danceable and hip-hop-literate. "Psychic City (Voodoo City)," the album's first single, reflects only a portion of that sound, but the song itself has generated healthy interest in its own right.

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Song: "Psychic City (Voodoo City)"

Artist: YACHT

CD: See Mystery Lights

Genre: Rock

In "Psychic City," YACHT mixes melodic choruses, icy-cool verses and spoken-word bits that suggest old-school David Byrne. Sarah Meadows hide caption

In "Psychic City," YACHT mixes melodic choruses, icy-cool verses and spoken-word bits that suggest old-school David Byrne.

The beat is laid-back and warm, with a melodic bass line and simple electronic drums underpinning keyboards, staccato guitar chords, several varieties of digital blips and sweet, swaying choruses you won't mind having stuck in your head. Evans handles the lead vocal, dispensing surreal lyrics drawn from Rich Jensen's Two Million Years , a sound collage released on cassette in 1987. The city in "Psychic City" is apparently a place of extreme connectedness — a friendly locale where neighbors randomly throw parties for you and where your kitchen automatically bakes you cakes.

In the song's video , Bechtolt and Evans dress in all white and all black, respectively, representing good and evil and playing with a variety of religious accoutrements. At first, the video looks like a highly serious student film, but then Bechtolt dumps a bowl of communion wafers into his mouth like so many Ruffles, and the clip ends with the pair — apparently enemies until that point — making out with lusty aplomb. As with the song, the video blends artiness with a dollop of entertainment value. Not a bad formula for a young duo, especially one with YACHT's beat-programming skills.

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this song is simple: Live life,have fun, indulge yourself in your surroundings, etc. All we can do in our time here on earth is have fun and experience the love of others. Go outside and interact with your neighborhood and community. You can choose to fear bad experiences or chose to embrace all the good experiences. You can either read the newspaper's rape and murder and stay inside or go outside and experience the world, and YOUR OWN NEIGHBORHOOD for all the beauty and wonder that exists within it's boundaries. There are probably amazing restaurants, dance clubs, people, etc within miles of your home that you never knew about because you never looked.

Go outside, put your ego aside, and experience life in your own voodoo city. Fall in love with everything. You never know what could happen; if you worry about the negative you will never experience the positive.

i always find YACHT songs to have this undertone of almost sarcasm... here i take it as "wait around and good things will happen spontaneously for you"...which obviously is not going to happen esp. the kitchen baking you a cake. unless they really are just very deranged/pos...

can someone interpret this song?

if there is any interpretation of it?

because to me it sounds mostly like lsd and wishful thinking and i lovvvvvvvvve itttttttttt

I haven't been able to stop listening to this song lately.

well heres my view after watching the video, the main theme i got out of it is that psychics, voodoo, religion things people really believe in are just adult fairy tales, real life super humans, or power hungry people trying to control how the world is. all these egos telling us how to live our lifes when all we want to do is to just be happy, i dont want to know the future i want to spontaneous go to a party, bake a cake, fall in love. i dont really know what voodoo is all about to explain that part, and well the love one is kind of contradicting as the lyrics goes against my explanation, but the last lines kind of says ive been cheated and loves a joke. like being promised all my wildest dreams would come true. like the guy in the shadows with exactly what he says is good for you. ?? iam i getting at something or is this blabber (sorry if i offend)

I can't stop thinking up a video for this song! (i love to do that with songs. lol) But it makes me feel really happy and fun, and almost a little nostalgic for some place that never existed. Funny how songs can do that to you, huh?

Gonna take a limb a say this song is about the moments unheard or seen. Potential in pleasure or pain, release to allowing those moments to happen

My interpretation is kind of post-modern. The final lines, "I told you your dreams would come true" remind me of the first section of the song ("psychic city"), as if the speaker of those final lines were psychic. It makes the song feel like it went somewhere and had a story, when really there was none. And who's to say that isn't just as good? It still has the same emotional impact even though it's not real.

If we interpret it linearly we see that our protagonist used to live in all these cities, psychic, voodoo, and heartbeat. The first two cities are a little creepy. In the psychic city, a friend comes to her window and tells her to come to a party (euphemism for a cult/religion gathering?) in that low, monotone drone. In the voodoo city, the kitchen holds her hostage and bakes a cake for her. But in the final city, the heartbeat city, we are told her dreams come true.

The beginning of the album (Ring the Bell, The Afterlife) seems to espouse an atheist worldview. So maybe this song is all a metaphor for losing faith. The psychic city represents religious conversion/indoctrination. The voodoo city represents how religion holds people hostage with fear. And the heartbeat city represents losing faith and gaining freedom and happiness.

The music video seems to be about breaking free from the constraints of faith-based beliefs as well. We see a priest and a wiccan performing their rituals, then fighting. But in the end, none of it matters because they end up abandoning their allegiances and coming together to make sweet, sweet angry love.

i think it's much simplier than domokato says. the girl may go to a window and get invited to a party, may hang around waiting for a cake, may go for a date with a man she met, but she don't do this cause she's a nun...

i think it means that the person once lived in a world where everything was done for them. their friends seemed to know when she was lonely so they would pop into her window and ask her to hang out. then the kitchen baked a cake for her, and she happened to walk around a corner and fall in love. she is reminiscing about how life used to be for her, before she grew up and so she takes action and calls her friends, and bakes her own cake, and seeks love, and thats what makes her dreams come true.

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Premiere: YACHT: "Psychic City (Voodoo City)" [MP3/Stream]

YACHT 's new album, See Mystery Lights , will get stuck in your head in more ways than one. First, there's that album cover -- a brain-melting image in "special holographic foil" that just won't leave your synapses alone. Then, there's the music. Check out the beach party jam "Psychic City (Voodoo City)", available for download and/or stream below, and just try to stop humming it.

YACHT members Jona Bechtolt and Claire L. Evans took the lyrics to "Psychic City" from Two Million Years , an early K Records cassette tape release by Rich Jensen, then added a synth part inspired by Althea and Donna's "Uptown Top Ranking".

See Mystery Lights is out July 28 on DFA . The duo is on tour with Patrick Wolf in the UK right now.

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