abracadabra - shapes & colorsIf you find the time, please come and stay a while in abracadabras beautiful neighbourhood; a magically wonky wonderland where strangers leave as friends to a block party soundtrack as eclectic as it is infectious. The California duos album shapes & colors is a dazzling collage of psych fuelled synthscapes and contemporary Baroque pop of anti capitalist movements and escapism, precisely pieced around their own working lives in a blue collar town. In

The band’s last album

Across its 11 tracks it delivers the kind of production

so I went back to the teenage me – a technique I learned in therapy and have been doing ever since – and got some advice on how to live and be happy in the 2020s

amped up and let it flow

Good things come to those who wait

Heartbreaking

Records debut also featured Ray Bryant on piano and Mickey Roker on drums

this album shows Segall inhabiting the world of a song’s intent

Stephen Carpenter

” as well as one song by bandmate Ryan Porter

performed by the inspiration of the movie

BAIT is the sound of surfing into a concrete wall