Wet Tuna

The brew’s been bubblin’ over the past few months, but it finally spills today… a new LP from RSTB faves Wet Tuna is upon us! Set to simmer since 2022’s Warping All By Yourself, the new record continues further into the deep reaches of dub goo and charred groove they explored in that era. Vast, if it can be believed, achieves a level of dankness wider and wilder than ever before. The band, now a solid trio with Matt Valentine, Erika Elder, and Jim Bliss, is also joined by Ged Gengras, Roe Land, Ain’e Droid, Coot Moon, Samara Lubelski, Vega Valentine, and Dawn Rider. With an assembled coterie of psych’s best, the band slips through the frontal lobe and into 104-degree fever dreams that come from all corners. While the record is another window rattler, the recommended course of injection should be headphones; swaddling the listener in a humid 360 sound that reverberates through the marrow.

Hooked in and humming, the band escorts the listener through six levels of the Astral Plane, barrel rolling through rubberized R&B, marinated psychedelics, and dub plate delicacies from the Cosmic American buffet. Genre can’t help to contain Wet Tuna, though. Its connotations fall short every time. The Tuna is an experience, a hurricane of bass and bliss that massages the medulla oblongata then tosses the listener through a hall of mirrors. Songs rumble and reverberate, drop from beneath us, and suddenly catch fire from the edges. Anyone grousing about stagnation, nostalgia, or recycling in the pop landscape need look no further than Wet Tuna to sate ‘em. These are future sounds from the fragrant wasteland, neon-cracked dance floor fillers for the 30th century. Wet Tuna is what the whole hep world will be winding on when the capital collapses. Why wait? Get in on the ground floor, scoop the ooze before there’s a line.

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