Earth Visions Of Water Spaces is grounded in an elemental ethos while retaining the band’s likeness for entertaining celestial questions. As on their previous showing, they again display a knack for transforming simple phrases into hypnotic mantras and restrained instrumental passages into tempered progressions of mystifying proportion.
An undeniable electric current runs through the music of Mapache, the LA-based cosmic folk duo comprised of songwriters Clay Finch and Sam Blasucci. Their fourth album, Roscoe’s Dream, is their most fully-realized release to date, a sprawling opus that captures the coastal bohemian charm of their distinct California sound in its purest form.