Kevin Bronson on April 8th, 2015

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On “Golem,” their second album in seven months, Los Angeles four-piece Wand dive boldly into the 1960s and ’70s, but these aren’t any lightweight musical hallucinogens these guys are doling out. The band  — Cory Hanson (guitar, vocals and synths), Lee Landey (bass and synths), Evan Burrows (drums) and Daniel Martens (guitar) — prove as pummeling as they can be pretty on their molten mixes. You might get a desert vibe from “Reaper Invert,” and “Self Hypnosis in 3 Days” seems like a promise the song certainly can keep. “Golem,” the follow-up to last August’s “Ganglion Reef,” came out in March on In the Red Records.

||| Stream: “Reaper Invert” and “Self Hypnosis in 3 Days”

||| Live: Wand plays April 16 at the Wayfarer in Costa Mesa.

Photo by Justin Tenney