Eldren’s sound has evolved a great deal over the last several years with the band exploring a fairly broad range of rock and roll sonics. Its latest single “Hazy Days” finds the band taking a sort of garage psych sound and stretching it beyond the softer, safer realms of some of its would-be peers into hard rock territory not unlike what you might expect out of, say, a Wand or King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard. At the core of the song is a driving, fuzzy bass line that guides the melody through its various gyres and gimbles as the song cruises to its conclusion. The vocals effortlessly swing between Robert Plant-esque primal wails and Beatles-like vocal harmonies and one striking aspect of the song for a band writing music in this style is how guitars take a back seat to the rhythm, synths and singing. Where you might expect a trippy guitar solo, Eldren gives space for other aspects of the song to shine and as such its dynamics here and elsewhere in its musical catalog are fine examples of how a psych rock band can avoid the usual clichés of the loose genre. Listen on Spotify and follow Eldren at the links below.
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