Given song titles like "USA Highway," "Paris to New York," and "Road Song," I'm tempted to say that the new Desolation Wilderness album, White Light Strobing (K), has a travel theme, but front man Nicolaas Zwart tends to hide behind such thick layers of echo I can't be too sure what he's singing about. The music makes me think I'm right, though: similarly heavy on atmosphere, with droney, jangly guitars, reverbed vibraphone, and washes of cymbal, it combines spacey psychedelia and twee pop in a strange union that evokes the kind of out-of-time meditative state you sometimes get into on a long drive.
Tue., Nov. 18, 9 p.m.
Ladyhawk, Lake, Desolation Wilderness @ Schubas
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