Kevin Bronson on January 8th, 2014

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The music of Bosey Masket arrives as if released from a hermetically sealed time capsule from the 1970s – woozy folk high on the California life and other psychedelics. It’s the brainchild of Tyler Steele, whose stepfather was label boss at Death Row Records and who grew up on a steady diet of hip-hop, but in making his forthcoming debut album “Even Trade” teamed up with a group of players well-known in L.A. environs. His collaborators included Taylor and Griffin Goldsmith of Dawes, Ryan Richter of He’s My Brother, She’s My Sister and Aaron Older of Edward Sharpe & the Magnetic Zeros. “Even Trade” is due to be released Feb. 18 – and the artist, director Matt Green and friends have made a whimsical short film, set in the ’70s, in which a masked wolf tells Bosey Masket that in the future he will be able to “solicit money from millions of random strangers” via something called “the Internet.” Check it out here. In the meantime, here’s the title track.

||| Stream: “Even Trade”