Kevin Bronson on July 28th, 2016

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L.A. quintet Send Medicine, the brainchild of Toronto-bred songwriter Julian Hacquebard, makes hippie-dippy psychedelic folk, and we say that in a sober, admiring way. Even if very little about about the band’s January album “Scary Aquarius Daughter” seems terribly straight-ahead, offering as it does a batch of four-minute trips into the kaleidoscopic ’60s. Hacquebard — joined now by Aaron Stern, Lauren Grimaldi, Ryan Glennan and Curran McDowell — return with the video for the single, “Baby’s Coast,” evidence that certain truths can be located even in the least lucid of moments, like when you’re drunk and hitting on a friend’s aunt. The song, the band says, is “about navigating through the absurd, circumventing around the gatekeepers and trying desperately not to fall off a high-speed train when you’re naked and blindfolded on top of it. With a bit of luck, love will win, and breakthrough the darkness.” Speaking of absurd, the video, directed by Hacquebard and Glennan, was filmed at Death Valley’s Mesquite Flat Sand Dunes and props to anybody who can roll one while being pulled through the desert.

||| Watch: The video for “Baby’s Coast”

||| Stream: “Baby’s Coast”

||| Live: Send Medicine performs tonight at the Bootleg Theater, opening for Oh Pep! and Paul Bergmann, and on Aug. 19 at the Lost Room as part of Echo Park Rising.

||| Previously: “Tall Flowers”