Origins follows Echo Park duo VOICEsVOICEs’ art-gallery-recorded Outside Sounds EP and picks up where the first left off. The six-song record is a sleepwalking journey into the unconscious like a meditative self-examination under a hypnotic paradigm bending hallucinogenic. While Origins may not be the soundtrack of your next road trip (warning: may induce catatonia), Nico Turner and Jenean Farris are certainly onto something here. Taking experimental, progressive, and psychedelic rock way beyond a logical direction, VOICEsVOICEs capture ghosts and the undead and dreams and put a sound to their thoughts. This record is like a séance, with a synthesizer. At the same time, Origins has a nascent sexuality. It is raw and it melts into you. Where all the emo kids played XX:xx in 2009 to get lucky, this year they’ll be playing VOICEsVOICEs’ Origins to score.