Kevin Bronson on February 16th, 2015

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The Black Ryder’s long-awaited sophomore album “The Door Behind the Door” is like floating down a slow-moving river on a murky night, all surroundings amorphous and the shoreline indistinct. After 50-plus minutes, though, you’ve gone nowhere, but it was a helluva ride. Like dozens of now-anonymous dream-pop bands who’ve issued long-players since shoegazing emerged as a countercurrent to rock’s theatrical bloat in the ’80s, the Los Angeles-based duo of Scott Von Ryper and Aimee Nash know their textures — echoing electric/acoustic guitars occasionally building to a wall, processional rhythms and impassive vocals (vaguely foreboding from Von Ryper and breathy from Nash). The follow-up to 2009’s “Buy the Ticket, Take the Ride” the Black Ryder’s glacial psychedelia might work best when accompanied by other hallucinogenics (because nothing seems indulgent when you’re high), or with the visuals the band is preparing for their forthcoming dates supporting the Jesus & Mary Chain. Director Tim Cadiente’s funereal video for “Seventh Moon” nails it. “The Door Behind the Door” is out Feb. 24.

||| Stream: “Let Me Be Your Light”

||| Live: The Black Ryder plays Feb. 25 at the Echo.

||| Previously: “Santaria”