Los Angeles based Psychic Friend has been winning fans over with their winsome brand of "new Californian pop" (SF Bay Guardian). They played their first-ever show at San Francisco’s Noisepop Fest in February, and have since been charming west coast fans at venues like the Silverlake Lounge, and Largo, where they recently shared a bill with Sarah Silverman. When pressed to describe their sound, Schwartz offers the following: “big orchestrated pop songs about [my] transitory life, depression, love, food service, and trying to function without a twitter account. Kind of like the Brill Building re-imagined, or Carole King via Serge Gainsbourg.” In its coverage of the group’s debut Noisepop the SF Bay Guardian noted their musical “kinship to Carole King's solo work, or Burt Bacharach and some of his hits for psychic and other friends,” but observed that “both the sound and the lyrical content is very contemporary, not retro.” The band’s first single “Once A Servant” has inspired raves from the likes of Fluxblog, who called it “angelic and lovely,” and Indies and the Underground, who proclaimed it “catchy as the common cold.” Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.