Psychic Ills - Never Learn Not to Love / Cease to Exist

After decamping from public view for the last couple years, Psychic Ills are back at work on the follow up to their 2016 opus, Inner Journey Out, which is scheduled for release this fall on Sacred Bones Records. To announce the arrival of this much anticipated album, they are releasing a limited edition single, Never Learn Not To Love/Cease To Exist, featuring their takes on both of these long mythologized songs. Originally appearing on The Beach Boys' 1969 album 20/20, credited to Dennis Wilson and with changes to the arrangement and lyrics, Never Learn Not To Love was written as Cease To Exist by a then unknown songwriter named Charles Manson. His version would eventually appear on his album Lie: The Love and Terror Cult, released in 1970, by which time he was already incarcerated for the events that he is most commonly known for today. How a version of that song came to find it's way onto The Beach Boys album is the stuff of legend, and Charles Manson's disappointment with the lyric