Kevin Bronson on February 28th, 2013

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Unlike many of their brethren treading in heavy psychedelia, the Black Angels have found a way, over four albums, to not repeat themselves. Their forthcoming full-length “Indigo Meadow” (due April 2) is their best yet, turning their sometimes-bleak, mostly narcotized sheaths of Sabbathry toward the dark and light of a good ol’ fractious boy/girl relationship. Whether banging home their imperatives (“Don’t Play With Guns”) or seasoning them with distinctly ’60s flavors (“Love Me Forever”), the Austin quartet still abides the scorched-earth roar that first sent us diving for the earplugs in 2006. [Anybody else remember their first visit to L.A., when they played something like six shows in one week and just about destroyed Zen Sushi? Good times.]

||| Stream: “Evil Things”

||| Live: The Black Angels play May 21 at the Mayan Theatre.

||| Also: After the jump, check out “Don’t Play With Guns:

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