The Psychotic Monks

Only one year after the release of their last studio album Pink Colour Surgery, warmly praised (featuring in top 2023 albums for Libération, Les Inrocks, Mowno; having TV appearances, recording a KEXP session, etc.), Psychotic Monks returns more confident than ever with Talking Through Repetition, a live rereading in the form of artistic achievement.

Very renowned for their ability to offer high-flying concerts, both fiery, experimental, and always deep in emotions, Psychotic Monks decided to record their current live set in the legendary Ile-de-France studios La Frette (Nick Cave, Arctic Monkeys, etc.), in order to record the vital essence of their music and share it more widely. The release of the double album, once again produced with style by accomplice Daniel Fox (Gilla Band, Lambrini Girls, Sprints), is scheduled for August 23rd and will undoubtedly contribute to establishing the French group as one of the most exciting and adventurous of his generation.

'This album was recorded entirely live in one take during the band’s 2023 tour, between a show in Dijon and Dunkerque. It serves as a testimony to the essence of our music at that moment.' - The Psychotic Monks

• Pre-order Talking Through Repetition on digipak CD
• Pre-order Talking Through Repetition on colour double vinyl
 

The Psychotic Monks unveil the music video for 'All That Fall'! A superb ten-minute film, full of tension and melancholy, written and directed by Hélène Delage. With Sonia Ichti & Clotilde Hesme. Produced by Raquel García López - Tamara Films. Co-produced by Vicious Circle & Hélène Delage.
With the support of CNC & SCPP.
 

Pink Color Surgery, the third and new album by The Psychotic Monks is out today! Produced by Daniel Fox of Gilla Band, the album is available everywhere on digital, CD, black double vinyl and pink double vinyl (Vicious Circle limited edition). Also available on our online store, here.

The band will be on tour in France and Europe in 2023, the concerts are listed here.
 

The Psychotic Monks today unveil 'Crash', third single from their new album Pink Colour Surgery which will be released on February 3rd (check out again 'Post-Post-' and 'All That Fall') on Vicious Circle and FatCat. Definitely one of the highlights of Pink Colour Surgery! (pre-order CD and double vinyl here). The video is directed by Bart Price.
 

The Psychotic Monks annonces a first round of concerts for 2023! Tickets are available, here.  

09/02 • GENÈVE (CH), Festival Antigel
04/03 • LONDON (UK), The Pickle Factory
07/03 • CAEN (14), Le BBC
08/03 • POITIERS (86), Le Confort Moderne
09/03 • BORDEAUX (33), Le Krakatoa
10/03 • NANTES (44), Le Stereolux
11/03 • RENNES (35), L'Ubu
18/03 • TOURCOING (59), Le Grand Mix
19/03 • LIEGE (B), Kultura
20/03 • BRUXELLES (B), La Rotonde
22/03 • PARIS (75), La Maroquinerie
23/03 • CLERMONT-FERRAND (63), La Coopérative de Mai
24/03 • LYON (69), Le Marché Gare
25/03 • AUDINCOURT (25), Le Moloco
31/03 • LJUBLJANA (SI), Ment Festival
14/04 • BRAINANS (39), Le Moulin de Brainans
15/04 • CHÂLONS-EN-CHAMPAGNE (51), Festival Rock en Stock
21/04 • BOURGES (18), Le Printemps de Bourges
28/04 • ANNEMASSE (74), Le Château Rouge
29/04 • AIX-EN-PROVENCE (13), Le 6MIC
30/04 • TOULOUSE (31), Le Metronum
04/05 • STRASBOURG (67), La Laiterie
05/05 • NIJMEGEN (NL), Sonic Whip
13/05 • NANCY (54), Autre Canal
27/05 • ANGERS (49), Festival Levitation
28/05 • SAINT-BRIEUC (22), Art Rock Festival
01/06 • BIARRITZ (64), L'Atabal
02/06 • LIMOGES (87), Centre Culturel John Lennon
08/06 • ESCH-SUR-ALZETTE (LX), Les Francofolies
09/06 • SAINT-QUENTIN (02), La Manufacture
08/07 • SAINT-DENIS-DE-GASTINES (53), Au Foin De La Rue
13/07 • VIENNA (AT), Vienna B72
14/07 • RIEGSEE (DE), Raut Oak Festival
15/07 • KARLSRUHE (DE), Kohl
16/07 • DOUR (B), Dour Festival
17/08 • CARHAIX (29), Festival Motocultor
20/08 • CHARLEVILLE-MÉZIÈRES (08), Festival Le Cabaret Vert

Pink Colour Surgery, the highly anticipated new album from The Psychotic Monks to be released on February 3, 2023 on Vicious Circle and FatCat Records, is now available for pre-order on our e-store, here! Don't delay! The album is produced by Daniel Fox of Gilla Band. Two first extracts can be listened here or below in videos.

• Pre-order the CD (+ poster)
• Pre-order the double-vinyl
• Pre-order the Vicious Circle limited edition pink double-vinyl

*** Out of France orders: please buy on FatCat Records, thanks! 
 

The Psychotic Monks unveil today 'All That Fall', second extract (after 'Post-Post-') from their new album Pink Color Surgery to be released on February 3, 2023. Available in studio version on digital platforms, or in live version below (Festival Culturebox, Paris 2022).
 

After two fiery albums, Silence Slowly And Madly Shines in 2017 (Alter K) and Private Meaning First in 2019 (Vicious Circle / FatCat Records), the members of The Psychotic Monks have never ceased to impress us with their maturity and determination to offer a singular stage and discographic presence.

Their 3rd album, Pink Colour Surgery, is announced today for a February 3rd 2023 release on Vicious Circle / FatCat Records. The album is produced by Daniel Fox of Gilla Band and composed in part by improvisations, and arrives as an act of resistance to the ambient violence. Disconcerting at first sight, this new opus operates in the dark a surgery of the ethics which is fleshed out of pink for a staggering metamorphosis. Its very structure embarks us entirely in an initiatory trip full of secret corners, provided that we accept to dive into it, to plunge into it.

Check out the video for the blistering first single 'Post-Post-' out today.
 

"At first, Post-Post- seems to be like a 2-in-1 song,” the band says. “But in fact, it’s more like the two sides of the exact same coin, where the one part cannot exist without the other. It’s about one's relation to their body and feelings, how to interact with other people and how to deal with them in a post-romantic, post-social, post-covid, post-post- world."

The video is directed by Clara Marguerat, who had previously directed music videos for the The Psychotic Monks with “Closure" and “Isolation", and features a performance by the french drag king artist Nixe Amère. The first half of the video depicts a modern representation of the Nixie tale, and the second half shows a woman with a plague doctor mask exorcising things she has inside of her through liberating actions. Themes about one's relation to their body and how to interact with other people in a post post- world are abound.

• Streaming / Download / Digital pre-order
 

NEW ALBUM
PINK COLOUR SURGERY

OUT: FEBRUARY 3rd, 2023
(VICIOUS CIRCLE / FATCAT RECORDS)

Cover photo © Charlotte Clément (Instagram)

TRACKLIST: 1. (Pre-Enter) / 2. Post-Post- / 3. Gamble and Dangle / 4. (Bird's Part) / 5. Crash / 6. Imagerie / 7. (88) / 8. Décors / 9. (Gestures) / 10. All That Fall / 11. location.memory / 12. (traP s'driB)

Yet radical, Pink Colour Surgery work is truly accessible to those who immerse themselves in it in depth. One is unceasingly hypnotized, shaken, because its soul flirts dangerously with a furious and oppressive trance. How then the journey becomes addictive, letting yourself slide from one track to another, sometimes struck, sometimes set ablaze with an unexpected epiphany, because its light irradiates us. Live their music is an intimate, sensory experience, whose deflagration is still received long after.

Pink Colour Surgery is like a hidden room in a house that we have never entered before, and the possibility of feeling good there is not excluded.

Big news for The Psychotic Monks! Their second album Private Meaning First (released in France in 2019 on Vicious Circle Records), will be out worldwide on November 27th via the great UK record label FatCat Records. The band also shares a new video "We have reached the other side and since we have emotions", a collaboration with the French artist Clara Marguerat. 
 

Watch this new live session by The Psychotic Monks, recorded in France at the end of 2019. Directed by: Sébastien Faits-Divers.

• "Closure" is taken from the last The Psychotic Monks' record, Private Meaning First, available on CD, double vinyl and digital.

• Tour dates
 

The Psychotic Monks are back on tour in the UK! Check out the concert list here or below. Their new album Private Meaning First is still available on CD, double vinyl and digital. 
 

The Psychotic Monks unveil today Interzone, a brillant 18-minutes film, directed by Vincent Bourre, a long time band's collaborator. The video is premiered by Les Inrockuptibles, here.

The 4 Monks are still on tour promoting their new album Private Meaning First. They will be live especially in Paris, Le Trabendo, this Thursday Nov' 28th (tickets here). 
 

The 4 Monks are back on tour until the end of the year! Schedule here or below. 

• Tickets
• New album
 

Today is March 29th, The Psychotic Monks' huge new album is out. Private Meaning First is now available everywhere, on our webstore, in all the good record shops, and also on the digital services. Go grab it!

The Psychotic Monks will be touring extensively all 2019 long. Check out all the gigs there. 
 

Listen now on Mowno the fantastic new album of The Psychotic Monks, Private Meaning First, to be released on March 29th via Vicious Circle!

• Pre-order CD and/or gatefold double vinyl
• Tour dates
 

Watch this crazy live session of The Psychotic Monks, recorded by the US media KEXP back in December at TransMusicales Festival.

The three tracks featuring on the video are new songs from Private Meaning First, the upcoming Psychotic Monks' album, to be released on March 29th and already available for pre-order (digipak CD / double gatefold vinyl) on our webstore, there.
 

Parisian rock-band The Psychotic Monks announces today the upcoming release of its highly anticipated new album, Private Meaning First, and shares the first single "Confusions" (listen below or here). 

Release date: March 29, 2019

• Pre-order CD (Digipak)
• Pre-order double vinyl (gatefold sleeve / uncoated paperboard - download coupon included)
• Pre-order on iTunes / Streaming

The Psychotic Monks will be extensively touring in 2019, check out all the gigs regularly on the concert section, here.
 

The Psychotic Monks will be playing this Friday January 18th in Groningen, Holland at the beautiful Eurosonic Festival ! See you there at 1:15AM - Vera Club.
 

This Saturday, at 00:35am, watch The Psychotic Monks live performance at Trans Musicales de Rennes thanks to Culturebox, here. Don't miss it!

Such a big day for the parisian rock band who will be previously taped by KEXP and FIP - Sessions will be broadcasted later on their websites.

Les Psychotic Monks annoncent ce jour un nouveau concert parisien ! Ils seront sur la scène de La Maroquinerie le 11 avril 2019, occasion de célébrer la sortie de leur nouvel album qui débarquera au même moment. 

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• Event Facebook
 

In December, The Psychotic Monks will be part of the great French festival Les Trans musicales de Rennes! Check them out at the Hall 3 from 00::35am.

Les Trans Musicales website - FB event
 

Vicious Circle is very pleased to welcome the young and amazing parisian band The Psychotic Monks! Their second album will be released by the Spring 2019.

In the meantime, go see them live this Saturday at Paris / Rock en Seine Festival (3:30 on stage), the week-end after at Black Bass Festival (near Bordeaux), and everywhere else (all their gigs are listed here).

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"Silence Slowly and Madly Shines", their debut album released in April 2017 (Alter K), is available for streaming/download there.