The Soundcarriers

The Soundcarriers have always been a band for the deep divers of the ‘60s, the kind of heads who slip down the rabbit hole far past the Nuggets and the shadows of paisley pop to dig through the dusted bins where Trees entwine with the works of Joseph Byrd, and where Italian Library archives are built on the grounds of saturated Keef covers. The band twists the Radiophonic dials, gathering strange clouds. They channel the wet rain and refracted sun beams into psych-pop gems that live permanently in the ionosphere, lodged between a past that never was and a future that’s on the precipice of becoming. The band’s sound is studied, but the their prismatic pop swerves pastiche to land in a realm of reverence, heirs to a sound that’s wondrous, wooded, and wild.

In their fifth outing the band feels comfortable in their woolen wonderland, revisiting some of the darkness and dream of their 2014 classic, Entropicalia. Organs and flutes whisk the listener through portals of sound while harmonies skew more melancholic than merry. The band draws on the history of Anglican folk, but bends their take through prismatic ends, crafting pop that’s built for days of headphone exploration, 2022 found the band return to form on Wilds, a welcome surprise after years away from the speakers, and Through Other Reflections arrives to assure us that it won’t be another eight years of wanting. The band’s as vibrant and velveteen as they’ve ever been — perennial bards of the mossen inner worlds of our minds.

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