Hell Is Invisible... Heaven Is Her/e

Hell is Invisible... Heaven is Her/e
Studio album by
Released9 June 2007
GenrePost-punk, psychedelic rock, experimental rock, punk rock, electronic rock
Length73:57
LabelSweet Nothing[1]
ProducerEdward O'Dowd, Baba Larraji, Genesis P-Orridge
Psychic TV chronology
Trip Reset
(1996)
Hell is Invisible... Heaven is Her/e
(2007)
Mr. Alien Brain vs. the Skinwalkers
(2008)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[2]
PopMatters[3]

Hell Is Invisible... Heaven Is Her/e is the 2007 album by counter-cultural provocateur Genesis P-Orridge and the reactivated Psychic TV a.k.a. “PTV3”.[4][5][6] This line-up had been active for the previous two years and much of the material on the album developed from ideas that emerged during PTV3's extensive touring in North America and Europe. The album was produced by Edward O'Dowd, Baba Larraji and Genesis P-Orridge.

Special guests were invited to add finishing flourishes: the Yeah Yeah Yeahs' Nick Zinner contributes his distinctive guitar playing to "In Thee Body" and "Maximum Swing", the Butthole Surfers' Gibby Haynes adds vocals to "Maximum Swing" and "I Don't Think So" and author Douglas Rushkoff — the original keyboardist for PTV3 — plays on "Lies and Then".

Whilst this album is not a concept album or a musical play per se it does centre on a more or less chronological journey through death to resurrection of the physical body and through confusion via revelation to spiritual epiphany.

Track listing

  1. "Higher And Higher" – 6:20
  2. "In Thee Body" – 6:55
  3. "Lies And Then" – 5:15
  4. "Maximum Swing" – 5:55
  5. "New York Story" – 6:32
  6. "I Don't Think So" – 9:23
  7. "Hookah Chalice" – 9:33
  8. "Just Because" – 10:15
  9. "Bb" – 6:31
  10. "Milk Baba" – 7:18

References

  1. ^ "Hell Is Invisible, Heaven Is Here - Record Collector Magazine". recordcollectormag.com.
  2. ^ "Hell Is Invisible...Heaven Is Her/e - Psychic TV | Songs, Reviews, Credits". AllMusic.
  3. ^ "PTV3: Hell is Invisible...Heaven is Her/e". PopMatters. 15 August 2007.
  4. ^ "Artist Genesis P-Orridge Turns Himself Into His Late Wife -- New York Magazine - Nymag". New York Magazine.
  5. ^ "Psychic TV: Still on the Fringes". NPR.org.
  6. ^ Whitman, Elizabeth (28 March 2020). "Banner Nurses, Docs on COVID-19 Frontlines Say They're 'Treated As Expendable'". Phoenix New Times.