Kevin Bronson on October 5th, 2018

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Psychic Love is the musical project of jill-of-all-trades Laura Peters, a Colorado native who ingratiated herself in the Echo Park scene in 2015. She remodeled a former butcher shop on her property into an underground event space, co-founded the Play Like a Girl music collective and, in 2016, released “The Hive Mind,” an album of languid grunge-pop that suggested floating along Echo Park Boulevard might be just as good as floating in space. “Nirvana Del Rey” is Peters’ own apt description.

“Go Away Green” is Psychic Love’s first single since that album, and it’s inspired by the happiest place on earth. “‘Go Away Green’ is actually the name of a shade of paint they use at Disneyland to cover up things they don’t want you to notice. They use it on fire hydrants, and talent entrances, and electrical boxes, and it’s just so innocuous that your eyes pass right over it,” Peters says. “This is a song about the things and people hiding in plain sight. I often feel like I’m looking out from inside a body — a body, a face, a look, that is telling the world one thing, but inside I’m just you and you are me.”

It’s captivating from the first verse — “My eyes are mirrors / They’re go away green / And when you look into them / You see yourself instead of me” — and it’s the first single from a forthcoming EP.

||| Stream: “Go Away Green”