Brightblack Morning Light

Motion to Rejoin is basically a continuation of B.M.L.'s debut: organ-soaked hippie gospel built upon open-ended grooves as thick as molasses. As with Morphine and Recurring-era Spacemen 3, you could say the group champions mood and style over substance. Then again, it's really kind of cool that a modern indie band has found its sound and is willing to stick with it rather than jump from idea to idea in the name of post-modern ADD. The band knows what it wants and how to get it. Good for them.

Naybob Shineywater pens mystic lyrics about rainbows, hologram buffaloes and living in a
little tent down by the river — and he's got the hippie bona fides to back it up. With his
partner, Rachael Hughes, Shineywater lives in a solar-powered home in New Mexico,
where the pair typically craft psych-rock blues albums under the name Brightblack
Morning Light. But on the duo's third record, they expand their sound with touc... More >