Wand doesn’t look at psychedelia as something that belongs in a museum—or necessarily has to sound peaceful. The Los Angeles band’s upcoming full-length, Ganglion Reef, is a teeming, dream-steeped smear of songs that shines with the bent light of a cracked prism. Case in point: “Broken Candle,” which is being debuted here in all its gauzy glory. It also pounds with garage-rock power, even as it lulls the listener to some dark corner of melody and melancholy.
Ganglion Reef will be released August 26 via God? Records.
Wand tour 2014
(September 3-17 with Ty Segall)
September 3—Club Congress—Tucson, Arizona
September 4—Lowbrow Palace—El Paso, Texas
September 5—Mohawk Outside—Austin, Texas
September 6—One Eyed Jack’s—New Orleans, Louisiana
September 7—Hi Tone—Memphis, Tennessee