Genesis P-Orridge shelved Psychic TV in 1995 and embarked on a wide variety of new projects. Some things just won’t die, though. So, in 2003, Psychic TV (or PTV3) was resurrected, after a little nudging from Toilet Boys guitarist Edward O’Dowd.

Along with P-Orridge and O’Dowd, the line-up for Hell Is Invisible, Hell Is Her/e is completed by Markus Persson, David Maxxx, Alice Genese and Lady Jaye (the other half of the Breyer P-Orridge pandrogenous entity). Together the group have taken New York glam and forced it through a series of small, cramped rooms full of nightmares. About halfway through the album it stops resisting and things get really weird.

I Don’t Think So marks this shift. A soft, almost lilting piece of electronica, it is torn apart by a rash of industrial noise and closes with a cacophony of voices, this leads into the album’s best track, Hookah Chalice. It’s here that the band seem most comfortable with themselves and really get the balance between experimentation and quality music right.

Not an easy listen, not always a comfortable listen and sometimes not even a good listen, Hell Is Invisible, Heaven Is Her/e is nonetheless worth a listen.

Label: Sweet Nothing
Website: www.genesisp-orridge.com
Release date: 4th June 2007

Tracklist:

1. Higher & Higher
2. In Thee Body (feat. Nick Zinner)
3. Lies, And Then (feat. Douglas Rushkoff)
4. Maximum Swing (feat. Nick Zinner and Gibby Haynes)
5. New York Story
6. I Don’t Think So (feat. Gibby Haynes)
7. Hookah Chalice
8. Just Because
9. BB
10. Milk Baba