Kevin Bronson on November 28th, 2016

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Evan Snyder has met the enemy, and he is … Evan Snyder. In “Wasting All My Time,” the band-directed video from L.A. psych-rockers Turquoise Noise, the quintet’s frontman wakes up bloody and beaten, before, ball bat in hand, he sets out to exact revenge. He’s even more dazed and confused when he finds the perpetrator.

The video is a good introduction to Turquoise Noise’s self-titled album, which drops Friday. The band — Snyder along with guitarists Brandon Villa and Bryce Darrow, drummer Destin Rogers and bassist Brendan Snyder — made the album at Lavish Studios, owned and operated by the late Scott Weiland (who took them under his wing when they were known as Vox Waves). Far from much of the loose, hazy psychedelia being churned out by a lot of ’60s and ’70s revivalists, Turquoise Noise checks in on the heavier side of things, letting wicked guitar lines, bold lyrics and big grooves propel their sonic spaceship. Their sound is still trippy and more than a little bit mystical, but you have a clearer idea of where you’re going, and where you’ve been.

||| Watch: The video for “Wasting All My Time”

||| Also: Stream “Matters of Fact”

||| Live: Turquoise Noise celebrate their album release with a show Friday night at downtown’s Space Camp, along with Babylon, Children, Mothdrops and Michael Rey & the Woebegones. The host is co-hosted by the BlindSpot Project and will feature their projections.

||| Previously: “Tabula Rasa”