Grass – “Summer in the Wasteland”

Friday was packed with Bandcamp fodder, and that’s always gonna make something great slip through the cracks, so it’s time to catch up on this exciting announcement that slipped out midday. The pre-aughts have been pretty faithfully covered for reissues, but since we’re now nearing the twenty year mark on the turn of the millennium, there’s room to dig up the lost treasures from the 2000s. Spiritual Pajamas announced a big one last week, the unearthing of a lost album from Grass, a New England collective that assembled in 2006, packed with plenty of RSTB faves. Featuring members of Espers, Vetiver, Feathers, The Valerie Project and Brightblack Morning Light, the band embarked on a sole tour to the West Coast and a recording session at member Greg Week’s Hexham Head studio in Philadelphia. The project had all the hallmarks of a psych-folk classic, but after the recording the tapes sat for a few decades, long enough that they had to be recovered and restored before they could be transferred for a proper pressing. Thankfully the process proved fruitful and we’re now slated to finally get the full length that was captured nearly two decades ago. You can hear as much in the fried tones and double drum strains of first taste, “Summer in the Wasteland.” The record is a must for psych-folk heads, out October 17th from Spiritual Pajamas.

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