The Psychøtic Reactiøn

Realising that we were going to have nothing new released this year, I decide we should record a Christmas single on Wednesday. Thursday I decided on a brief of the Pachelbel Canon in the style of the Flaming Lips. By Friday I’d come up with some lyrics, an intro riff and cribbed some J.S. Bach to lend the project suitable gravitas, and Leo and I had recorded the drums. Saturday we added guitar, vocals, bass, keyboards and (naturally) sleigh bells. We only had one thirty quid mic and the fourtrack at our disposal, so hi-fi it aint, but here it is; that rare thing, a quality Christmas song. I tried to avoid schmaltz or romance and any spiritual grappling sounds toe-curlingly pompous, so I just said what I felt, and played filthy fuzz guitar over the top (no change there, then).

The “B-side” is a live version of “Buried Alive” recorded at the Lost Sunday club at the Brixton Windmill, 5th February 2006. It will be 11 years in January since the original 4-track recording of “Buried Alive” became the first Psychotic Reaction song.

This single is a FREE download. The best place to stream and download it is LastFM.

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