Votaries – Psychometry CD

Psychometry is an alternative album by Votaries on Wharf Cat Records. This is the CD edition. This edition was released on December 2, 2019.

After releasing two critically acclaimed albums that evaded the trappings of contemporary psychedelia, Jackson Scott's heavily drone-rock and shoegaze influenced new outfit Votaries reasserts that an unabashed indifference to musical trends continues to suit his songwriting. Undulating guitars and lyrics that wantonly explore themes of eradication, annihilation, temptation, rage and paradise, recalling Spaceman 3's drug-tinged insouciance, while ethereally layered vocal harmonies pay homage to the singular production achievements of pioneers like My Bloody Valentine. The resulting sound is somehow greater than the sum of its parts. Songs like the rhythmically propelled 'Delusion' and the punchy, bass-driven 'Rainbow Death Revisited' explore territories not yet charted by any of the greats and show that 'Psychometry', transcendent as it may be, is merely a hint of what is to come as Scott continues to push his musical boundaries.