Loudcrowd Pick of the Week

Lemonade Blissout

I’ve been told that psychedelia tends to flourish during economic downturn. Makes sense right? When the life you live feels suddenly (or worse- gradually, slowly, painfully) more limiting due to your daily constraints, its only natural to reach towards otherworldly purusits, where the options are limitless.

I’m not just talking about the 60s here. 90s music brought a ton of trippy imagery, and saw radio play for rad rock bands like Jesus Jones and Soup Dragons who both incorporated cosmic color and cascading chords into their songs. And then of course there was the Rave scene- a culture built on being out of your head.

My pick of the week comes from Lemonade, San Francisco transplants who recently moved to Brooklyn, a new band with a unique sound echoing that trippy 90s style. Part rave, part avant-garde, Lemonade offer up extended dance tracks that simultaneously conjure up noise bands and Hacienda house. Mingling hypercolor and surf fetish imagery, their look itself is a higher state of consciousness- and they’re nice guys, from what I’ve seen :)

Lemonade just put out a remix album on rcrdlbl, are currently on tour with Sebastien Tellier, and finishing up their last two dates with Tsarlight and Ghosts on Tape. We’ll catch up with them on the road, so look out for their tour journal here on Monday!

-Fucci