‘Touching down’ by Therapies Son is a quiet pop song slowly waking up with a pulsating synth rhythm turning in circles, bright Harrison-esque guitars and fragile hushed vocals, capable to put you in a sort of ecstasy state before suddenly transforming itself.
Therapies Son is the project of Californian Alex Jacob, who opened for Yuck and Smith Westerns when I saw them at the Echo last February; he is only 19 and has just released his debut EP ’Over The Sea’ on Record Store Day, through Transparent, a UK label.
And this is remarkable considering the fact he just started writing songs last November. Is he the new Panda Bear?
Watch the very psychedelic video made with clips from the movies Altered States, HEAD and 2001 Space Odyssey: weird but it works.