‘Deadbeat Summer’ and ‘Should Have Taken Acid With You’ are two views of the same non-endless season— one mind-expandingly lazy and the other too lazy for mind expansion, both undeniably catchy.

Whatever they owe to the past, the memories on Psychic Chasms are Palomo’s and ours … eight or nine unforgettable songs and a few tantalizingly brief interludes, indelibly capturing the glamor and bleary malaise of being young and horny as an empire devours itself.