I quite like this except for two things - the rather unimaginative arrangement which makes it feel draggier than it could be, and the chorus - the high note is quite offputting, I would suggest.

A not-quite competent dish of meat and potatoes.

Live drums? Reminds me of Nilsson which is cool. Especially in the melody. Feels like this song has a couple of spliced together bits, but maybe it's just in some instruments being quiet right before transitions or something. I noticed that the guitar is not that prominently displayed. Drums really drive the song. Almost a vox and drums song. But it works well enough. (Yes, I know it has bass.) Some songs grew a bit on me as I listened. Unfortunately this one didn't. The vox and that jump in the melody got a bit tiring.

pretty sweet ramshackle groove. this has a kind of '60s psychedelic garage rock vibe that I dig. pretty good vocal performance, and kind of catchy.

The lyrics about a huckster psychic putting on a show, I guess they're okay, but it feels only sort of related to the concept of pareidolia. Are you connecting the idea of "people seeing patterns where there aren't any" to the idea of "people hearing what they want to hear from a fortune teller"? It's not quite the same thing, in my opinion. Plus that rhyme of "Pareidolia" with "melancholia" was a real reach. I'm not sure why the narrator also needs to be a barista; that feels like a hat on a hat to me. Did you start from the field recording and work backward from there? "Psychic barista" couldn't have been easy to sing in your chorus, either. You also have a few spots where the lyrics scan poorly, which is a pet peeve of mine you often trip over. I liked your "Semiprecious" a lot better than this.