Bohdan Kotik

The industrious combination of kaleidoscopic colours and progressive sounds the Psychedelic Porn Crumpets have been producing since 2014 lives-on in "SHYGA! The Sunlight Mound." Here, the Australians are hell-bent on leaving their unique brand of sonics on listeners' dopamine receptors, and through the fidelity of their fingers and the influence of their voices, they do just that. With the masterful integration of hyper-inductive rhythms and fruitful melodies, it's like two facing planets amalgamated to form the band's most profuse atmospheres yet—with plenty of synergistically viscid layers and dynamo-powered currents for fans to drool over.

"Protean Threat" is one of Osees' most compelling records to date. This Thirteen-track LP—the twenty-third in a prolific lineage—renders-up like a potent testament to the type of psych-hardened, acid-guzzling, motorik-metered, music-making locomotives that this Californian band has proven to represent. Hurdling from one sonic escapade to the next with krautrock-infused maneuverings and psychedelia-injected belligerence, "Protean Threat," advances on you, bolstered by two hyper-focused drummers, a multifarious pedantry of penetrating synths, and John Dwyer's syncopated guitar riffs that totters the foundation of this self-governing strain of music; one that Osees have been redefining for more than two decades.

Cali-soul band Chicano Batman released their fourth LP, "Invisible People," early this May, standing as another stanchion for the Latino innovators' framework for manufacturing the well-known egalitarian inspired love-songs they've gained repute for—and surprisingly, without a word of Spanish to facilitate. Still, these Southern California psychedelia experts and their authentic funk syncopations oxidize over their newest record's foundations like a flattering patina; rendering-up a tight-knit venture garnished with playful hooks that gyrate from one sun-drenched hook to the next.