Kevin Bronson on March 6th, 2012

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If you witnessed any of the searing live performances of Vanaprasta late last year, you got the feeling the L.A. quintet was an arena-rock band lacking only an arena. The blood-pumping (and mind-bending) music on its November debut “Healthy Geometry” is perfect for big spaces and bright lights – but, as it turns out, those songs can be illuminated in other ways. Today Vanaprasta releases its “Effie House Sessions” EP – it’s exclusively on Spotify for a month before hitting digital retailers – that offers stripped-down, more contemplative takes on five songs from “Healthy Geometry.” Andrea Alseri’s “Look Sessions” video for “Supernumerary” gives you an idea, and the whole EP (produced by Dave Schiffman at the band’s unofficial Silver Lake HQ) offers ample evidence that Steven Wilkin, Collin Desha, Taylor Brown, Cameron Dmytryk and Ben Smiley can make music for the morning after as well as the night before.

||| Download: “Come On”

||| Live: Vanaprasta headlines the Bootleg Bar on Friday.