This six-piece Portland band are making some of the most impressive tribal psychedelic rock I've heard in recent years. Their 2022 release Map of Dawn grabbed me on first listen, but their new album Shapes Unravel is exponentially better in every regard.
Shapes Unravel really does sounds epic. Abronia are unusually diverse musically, stretching beyond the normal palette of instrumentation you'd expect to find on a psychedelic rock record, facilitating the sort of world building that you just can't achieve with the standard guitar / bass / drums set up.
Pedal steel guitarist Rick Pedrosa is used superbly here, crafting wide open vistas that really help to give these tunes a sense of enormous scale. And vocalist Keelin Myer is a force of nature. Kosmische spaghetti western - who knew that was a thing?
Don't sleep on this one. Check it out below:
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