Greater California

***Hailing from the burghs of Long Beach, GREATER CALIFORNIA bring us a whole new distinct sound on their third album All the Colors. Produced with IKEY OWENS (Mars Volta, Crystal Antlers) and freckled with an impressive list of guest musicians (most notably STEVEN HODGES of Tom Waits), All the Colors is a summertime landscape often inspired by the works of Brian Wilson, the Zombies, Harry Nilsson, the Velvet Underground and Martin Denny. You will hear intermingling guitar tones and the jangle of a 12-string; vaguely prosed lyrics and rich vocal harmony sketches; a drumming style so rhythmically conscious of the songs that it almost acts as another melody line; percussions like sleigh bells, maracas, vibraphones and marimbas; a stray trumpet; and the inviting sounds of the hammond organ and wurlitzer electric piano. “Big, bounding Wurlitzer chords and swirls of Mellotron, Hammond, and Chamberlin; languid verses balanced with jangling guitars, a sonic signature that demonstrate the band’s talent for songcraft.”— Pitchfork