While Dylan’s brief foray into Christian themes matched a deft hand at assimilating different spiritual and musical traditions with an undeniable sincerity and alacrity, this period rarely inspired his true genius as an artist.
As we filmed them in those final thirty minutes before showtime, there was laughter, loose shoulders, an absence of pretense. These are guys who take their craft seriously but don’t take themselves too seriously, and that balance is rare.
The LA quintet is full of freakout code-writers tethered to the madness of kosmische, house, acid, Afrobeat, and techno chaos, where theory and feel get synthesized into mind-melting overtures of pedal tones, modules, and DAWs.