I’ve always been a big radio listener. When I was a kid, I would record songs off the radio, never mind if the DJ was still talking at the start of a song or a commercial kicked in before the song ended completely. In high school and college, I would call up radio stations to chat with the DJ and maybe even hear my voice on air. These days, I like listening to the radio because I don’t want to believe that radio is dead, plus I still discover a lot of new songs and artists this way, and I also get to see that some stations are actively playing AI songs :/ Whether the stations know they’re AI, I have no idea.
Anyway, on my way home last night, Jam 88.3’s Lokal show tossed me a musical gem. It was a cool, moody, electronic-tinged song with hypnotic vocals. After a quick Google search of some of the lyrics, I learned that the song is called “Invidia” by Psycho Silver.
I looked her up the moment I got home, and a 2024 profile on Scoutmag described Psycho Silver’s music as film noir in music form and announced that her concept album Rebirthwas on its way. She was also featured on Bandwagon Asia when her first single “Superbia” dropped in January 2024, with the single being described as “message from her past self to her future self to calm down.”
Look, I’m not a music writer or critic. The best I can say is that her two songs on Spotify sound perfect for contemplating during a nighttime drive or grooving during a chill listening party in a basement somewhere. Also, I’m eager to hear what other songs she’s got. It’s been two years since her songs came out and Rebirth has yet to emerge, but great things do take time to cook, and what we’ve sampled so far shows that the rest of her work could be pretty special.
Psycho Silver is on Youtube, Facebook, and Instagram, and you can listen to “Superbia” and “Invidia” on Spotify.
Photo by Trish Shishikura
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