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.
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".
The kind of thing I would have loved at the time.
Rating: 8/10 Best songs: Golden arrow, Paper trails, Metatron
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.
Nice groove to this largely instrumental electronic album. Nice for sitting alone in the dark.
Música electrónica. Ni fu ni fa.
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.
It's alright. Like a lot of this type of music, it sort of goes in one ear and out the other. 3 stars.
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.
Quite nice
Some chill electronic that played while I listened
Always partial to a bit of electronica
Not my jam. I can see how people may enjoy this album, but the inherent conceit and mellowness bored me.