The new single from the forthcoming LP “Desolate Ecstasy”
(May ’26-purple vinyl ltd/ed 200)
by Schizo Fun Addict in New Jersey (via NYC & San Francisco).

SFA now presents its most pure rock and roll excursion ever, due to a bizarre inspiration which gave birth to a rad concept. Band co-founder Jet Wintzer was scouring charity shops for a mid-8os Sony camcorder to utilize a diy 35mm DOF adapter for no-budget simulation of 35mm motion picture film, when he found a beat up unit at a Salvation Army in Hackettstown NJ. It didn’t work, because the tape cartridge stuck, and it disappeared into his man-cave for years.

During Covid seclusion it resurfaced, and the cartridge was rescued. Jet and SFA co-founder Jayne Gabriel watched it during a snow-storm over a bottle of bourbon and legal weed. What played back astounded them. It began at JFK airport as three friends, the anon videographer, and a cute couple in their early 20s, were waiting to board a jet to Glasgow circa 1985. These kids were NYC rockers, wearing Blondie, Ramones and Shangri-Las gear, leather jackets and biker boots. They studied an NME talking about which bands to see there, breathlessly name-dropping Jesus and Mary Chain and The Pastels. The video skipped to live bands, hipsters dancing, make-out snogs, and scenes at a Glasgow pub called The Griffin.

It then cut to the trio talking excitedly on the plane back home making plans to start their own band. They decided on a name, DESOLATE ECSTASY, and wrote their first song in a three-seat back row hazed in smoke and airline booze. They called the song PASTELINE DREAM, but it wasn’t very good. Nobody could carry a tune. But the enthusiasm was addictive and inspirational. “We must do a reprise instrumental that evokes the mood of the single” …stuff like that.

A tragic ending was revealed later on the tape. In tribute to this band that never was, Schizo Fun Addict adopted the song title and band name, imbibed their exuberant passion, and turned it into a masterpiece framed by the patented West Coast wall of ocean vibes of Rex John Shelverton, SFA’s guitarist and producer since 2018, enhanced by the double girl group vocal attack of Jayne and Ilona Virostek, doing pop harmonies from Michelle Phillips and Mama Cass to dueling Nico-esque glory. Jet Wintzer throws vocals, some noise guitar and SH 101 analog synth, while Daniel Boivin pounds a steady beat like a groovy jack-hammer.

How do you get hold of a copy? Ah well, there's the rub - there won't be any copies for sale.
But there might be opportunities to get hold of a copy through fair means or foul - keep watching this space for details.