The Delicate Psychedelia of Yard Art’s “Undertow” is an Entrancing Trail of Ghostly Melody Into the Horizon

Yard Art, photo courtesy the artists

Yard Art flow into the spidery early melodic guitar work of “Undertow” as though spinning the delicate structure of its psychedelic and shoegaze tapestry from the beginning and throughout. But the sounds expand and swirl like something one imagines one would hear if you were around at the turn of the 90s in Seattle and a new band called Sky Cries Mary, seemingly unaffected by the rising popularity of grunge, handed you one of the demo cassettes of its new direction toward a fusion of folk, psychedelic rock and a nascent other strand of alternative rock. Except that Yard Art is clearly drawing upon on more contemporaneous influences in its luminous sketches and explorations weaving in and out of a standard song structure. Fortunately the band has no problem drawing those musical ideas into hypnotic trails into the horizon and lead you to wonder what else it might have in store. Listen to “Undertow” on Spotify and follow Yard Art on Instagram.