“The Constant” by L.A.’s Expose puts vivid and intricate, atmospheric guitar work to the forefront while the vocals haunt the background like a modern cognate to Slint gone psychedelic. And like the latter there’s a dreamlike haze to its drifting melodies and surges of rhythm. Those drifts of tone swirl a little like there’s a bit of wide-ranging phaser on the guitar allowing its soaring moments to seemingly move slowly but with a bit of incandescently fiery intensity. In the end the song settles into a spacious fade out with elements pulling back into a luminous sonic fog. The music is of a lineage that skips the past fifteen years of psychedelic rock and seems to tap into that time when The Flaming Lips still had Jonathan Donahue or when he was emerging with the early Mercury Rev recordings but the gentler and more mellow end of that without compromising on getting into noisy, mind-bending musical spaces. Watch the video for “The Constant” on Youube and follow Expose at the links below. The band’s album ETC releases on streaming, digital download and limited edition vinyl January 24, 2025 via Quindi Records.
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