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Golden Animals Steady Roller My Friend Bill Alice Darkness & Light The US psychedelic revival continues apace with the latest tripped-out Californians to commit a '60s-influenced, forward-looking sound to record. GOLDEN ANIMALS are a far-out blues / rock and roll duo with a full-blown sou...   more »nd that's bigger than their stripped-back gear should allow. Their brand of blues is built on austere beats, slide guitars and fuzzed-up vocals, here produced by Chris Cody (TV On The Radio, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Massive Attack) and mixed by Thom Monahan (Pernice Brothers, Gary Louris, Devendra ...

If anyone turned 2020's many lemons into sparkling lemonade, it was Sam Means. The musician and head of local merch company Hello Merch went from a planned reunion with The Format to releasing an excellent five-song EP, I'm Sorry. The project clearly owes something to Means' main band, and there's a kind of earnestness and heart-on-sleeve mentality linking both sounds. But from there, Means spins in '70s-style folk-rock (a la Stephen Stills) and '90s alternative (think Teenage Fanclub) for energetic jams on American politics and doomed love. If there are any downsides, the EP feels too brief...