Kevin Bronson on October 26th, 2012

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Golden Animals seemed to vanish from the Los Angeles landscape as mysteriously as they appeared. The itinerant duo of Tommy Eisner and Linda Beecroft materialized out of the California desert in 2008 with a stellar album of vintage-sounding psychedelic blues titled “Free Your Mind and Win a Pony” – next-gen hippies who were more concerned with their message than playing any industry games. They did a residency at the Silverlake Lounge in 2009 and largely disappeared from L.A.’s radar for more world travels and a stint in New York. They return with a new album, “Hear Eye Go” (out digitally next week) and a single, “Most My Time,” that seems beamed in from 1968.  The album was made in Brooklyn with Matt Boynton, who’s worked on albums by Suckers, MGMT and Joseph Arthur, among others. And the duo is back in L.A., at least for a time.

||| Download: “Most My Time”

||| Live: Golden Animals play tonight as part of the Moon Block Party’s event “Beyond the Witching Hour in Crystal Vision” at the Echoplex. Also playing: Peaking Lights, Lumerians, Dahga Bloom, Guy Blakeslee of the Entrance Band, Juju, Emma Ruth Rundle, Diva Dompe, Blackfeet Braves, Mr. Elevator & The Brain Hotel and Cosmonauts. Golden Animals also play Nov. 9 at Dillon’s Roadhouse in Desert Hot Springs.