Boogie Noir: Psychic Mirrors Have Dropped a Funky Soundtrack to the Hard Boiled Thriller 'Nature of Evil’

A fictitious reporter from the equally fictitious Miami Star calls Nature of Evil, “an enigmatic exercise of the grotesque and bizarre” and judging from the trailer it looks to be a truly bonkers thriller.

Featuring car explosions, street gangs, alligators, jai alai, contracts written in virgin blood, and some seriously stilted acting, it’s like a low-budget, Florida version of Chinatown played out by a cast of actors from a South Miami Community College

The highlight of the film is the boogie funk soundtrack, which is also the debut album for Psychic Mirrors, a Miami six-piece who play a mixture of funk, yacht rock and wavy synth jazz. Led by the well-coiffed Mickey de Grand IV , the band started out in 2010 cutting singles on their own label Cosmic Chronic before gaining the attention of Washington DC label Peoples Potential Unlimited and Red Bull Music Academy.

The album was recorded over two years at the band's Miami studio. De Grand IV explains, “Nature of Evil is our debut album, and we wanted to make it like a musical—like Grease but with synthesizers, and instead of a boy/girl narrative, the themes are more omnisexual.”

Listen to the first single “Island Girl” and peep the trailer below.

Vinyl and digital versions of 'Nature of Evil' will be available April 12 though Cosmic Chronic and Peoples Potential Unlimited.