Kevin Bronson on June 7th, 2017

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Imaad Wasif calls his new album “the nearest album to a magick treatise that I’ve written.” At his show Tuesday night at the Bootleg Theater, somebody shouted for the song “Dream Metal,” so between that title and Wasif’s “magick,” you get an idea of what you’re in for with “Dzi.” Pronounced “zee,” “Dzi” is Wasif’s first solo outing in eight years and out June 16 via Grey Market. The record, produced by Bobb Bruno (Best Coast), is heavy — conceptually and sonically — yet spacious psych-rock, a dark trip into the mind of a man obsessed with mystics and, guitar in hand, quite possibly is one.

This is verbatim from the press release: “In the aftermath of recording Wasif was able to halt his rapid descent as a paranoid recluse in L.A., drawing pentagrams on walls and carpets to conjure demons and stop throwing associates out of recording sessions because he was convinced they were witches and believing that they were plotting to steal his semen to create the Antichrist.”

Which brings us to the video for “Carry the Scar,” which is the work of Austin Lynch, a documentary filmmaker who is David’s son. It’s a little bit incendiary, a lot of foreboding and as dark and somewhat inscrutable as the music itself.

||| Watch: The video for “Carry the Scar”

||| Previously: “Far East”