Psycho & Plastic's new single Imago is the first precursor to their new album Phantom Bliss, due in July this year. The Berlin based experimental electronic duo Psycho & Plastic took
a critically acclaimed career turn towards ambient music with
their previous album Placid House in 2020.

Expanding on the musical trajectory the duo first embraced on Placid House, their most successful release to date, Imago sets the tone for another superb excursion into ambience, emotion, introspection and uncanny beauty.
Imago emerges as a tightly interwoven electric guitar and piano piece. The electronic treatments applied to both instruments - swashes of modular synthesizer effects, echoes, clicks and noises - blur the lines between analog and digital, organic and electronic. This lets the track teeter between ambient and neoclassical music, which is both an exciting prospect for the coming album Phantom Bliss, and evidence of Psycho & Plastic’s commitment to venturing further into the creative territory they started to explore two years ago. Alexandre Decoupigny and Thomas Tichai, who have been writing, producing and performing together as Psycho & Plastic since 2011, say the following about this release:

“Imago is a first glimpse into the music and imagery of our upcoming album Phantom Bliss. We’re delighted that we can start to share and reveal this major project with our listeners bit by bit. For us, Imago perfectly symbolises the feeling of our new music finally taking flight after all the passion and effort we put into it.”

Following Imago, two more singles - Back and Forth in May and Fragile Targets in June - will not only shed more light on the music to come on Phantom Bliss. The releases will also continue to unveil the evolution of the 3D rendered landscapes visual artist Max Füllbier developed as cover artworks for the whole project, providing starting points and inspiration for music videos, press photos and graphics.
With Psycho & Plastic fully immersing themselves into the aesthetics of their ambient and neoclassical music, this year’s outings are their most ambitious creative endeavour yet. Not only aficionados of the genre can look forward to these releases as essential for 2022.


“The duo left thumping rhythms back in a world that had stopped and they used ambience to tap into emotion. Less drone-based and more melodically arranged (...), their own personal response to the situation reminds me, in its gaping beat-less synth melancholia, of Tangerine Dream.”
Paul Hanford, author of Coming to Berlin - Global journeys into an electronic music and club culture capital (Velocity Press May 5 2022)