The Mother Hips‘ trippy power-pop has aged awfully well. On the Bay-area outfit’s seventh album, “Pacific Dust,” singer-guitarist Tim Bluhm and crew avoid the pratfalls of many of their psych-pop brethren — they’re heartfelt but not sappy, amiable but not goofy, expansive but not indulgent, with songs that exude a 1970s warmth without feeling microwaved. Now entering their third decade, they shouldn’t be taken for granted.
||| Download: “Third Floor Story” and “White Falcon Fuzz”
||| Live: The Mother Hips perform Jan. 28 at the Hotel Cafe.
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“Third Floor Story” is my fave off the album. When I ran into Tim at your SXSW show, he told me the Hips were “balls deep” into a new album. It’s been good to learn that they were into something good.