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Psychic
2013
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Psychic is the debut studio album by electronic music duo Darkside, consisting of Nicolás Jaar and Dave Harrington. It was released on October 4, 2013, on Matador Records.
Darkside (often stylized as DARKSIDE) is an American band based in New York City. The band was formed in Providence, Rhode Island in 2011 by electronic musician Nicolás Jaar and multi-instrumentalist Dave Harrington, both of whom were students at Brown University at the time. Their debut studio album, Psychic, was released in 2013 and was followed up by Spiral, released in 2021 after a lengthy hiatus.
In 2022, the band added drummer and percussionist Tlacael Esparza to its core line-up, ahead of the release of Live at Spiral House, an album consisting of improvised material recorded at the band's Los Angeles-based rehearsal space. Their first studio album as a trio, Nothing, was released in February 2025.
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Oct 20 2025
4
Psychic is the debut album of Darkside (the duo Nicolas Jaar, who I already knew, and Dave Harrington). It's a good dark and atmospheric album in some songs are ambient soundscapes, other a bit more uptempo with vocals. Highlights are "Golden Arrow", "Freaks Go Home" and "Paper Trails".
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Oct 07 2025
4
The kind of thing I would have loved at the time.
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Oct 08 2025
4
Rating: 8/10
Best songs: Golden arrow, Paper trails, Metatron
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Oct 10 2025
4
Really enjoyed this, one of the best electronic albums I’ve heard in a while, very atmospheric and layered. One I’ll keep coming back to.
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Oct 15 2025
4
Nice groove to this largely instrumental electronic album. Nice for sitting alone in the dark.
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Oct 07 2025
3
Música electrónica. Ni fu ni fa.
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Oct 10 2025
3
Not sure I quite got this. I liked it OK but it didn't exactly feel like music you sit down and listen to. It felt like the part of the soundtrack where the guy drives silently across country at night, or the closing credits of a noir anime. Moderately perplexed.
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Oct 10 2025
3
It's alright. Like a lot of this type of music, it sort of goes in one ear and out the other. 3 stars.
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Oct 13 2025
3
It's fine.
My personal rating: 3/5
My rating relative to the list: 3/5
Should this have been included on the original list? No.
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Oct 19 2025
3
Quite nice
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Oct 27 2025
3
Some chill electronic that played while I listened
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Oct 17 2025
2
Always partial to a bit of electronica
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Oct 26 2025
2
Not my jam. I can see how people may enjoy this album, but the inherent conceit and mellowness bored me.
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