LNZNDRF (ft members of The National/Grizzly Bear/Beirut : II (Clear White Vinyl)

LNZNDRFs II is a mass hypnotism, somehow both thunderous and
trance-inducing. Recorded in extensive, shamanistic jam sessions at Austins Public Hi-Fi in September 2019 and later edited down to give it shape,these songs feel like Right Now, with some toes testing the watersof the future.
The brothers Scott and Bryan Devendorf (The National), Ben Lanz
(The National, Beirut) and multi-instrumentalist Aaron Arntz (Beirut,
Grizzly Bear) are in headlamps and spelunking gear, descending
into a somnambulant space. Album deep cut Ringwoodite, with
its skittering, lithe and precise drums, is a summer sparkler of
song whizzing by at such a clip it leaves you giddily following its
traces. On its heels are the computer lover Gaskiers and comeon-slow motorik anthem Stowaway that, while not connected by
sound, work in tandem to put LNZNDRF fully in the canon of
strange and indelible krautrock.
Its incantations seem to beckon