Kevin Bronson on December 3rd, 2015

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First as Electric Flower, then as Electric Flower Group and now as EFG, guitarist Imaad Wasif and drummer Josh Garza have spent the past couple years elevating their celestial-but-heavy psychedelia into high art, with the addition of producer/bassist Tom Biller proving the glue that holds the aforementioned shredders together. “Suzanne,” the first new song the trio has released in a year and one we first heard a year ago (altho in a different form), is a new beast. Wasif proves no less the mystic, but here amid the more spacious rhythms of Biller and Garza, an ostensible New Wave song is transported into another dimension, where gloss replaced by pulsing dread. It’s one the new songs the trio has been working on in Biller’s WPO studio, a sound described by Garza, the ex-Secret Machines drummer, as having “NYC Dream House blood, a psychedelic spine and a Kraut/Jap-rock pulse.” Director Jeff Hassay’s video captures what the band calls “a theme of denial and ostracism.”

||| Watch: The video for “Suzanne” (and download the song from NoiseTrade here)

||| Also: Stream the song here:

||| Previously: Live at the Bootleg, “Singing Bridges,” “The Electrician,” “Four16”