Kevin Bronson on September 28th, 2016

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L.A. trio Derde Verde have been off the radar for about three years, cooking up more psychedelic soundscapes in a warehouse above a flower shop in downtown L.A. The band — singer-guitarist Dylan McKenzie, bassist-vocalist Jonathan Schwarz and drummer Matthias Wagner — showed on their 2103 EP and 2011 full-length a penchant for expansive, and sometimes droney and electro-baked, shoegazing. And their new single “Days of Drought” is a refinement of all that, a transportative mediation “on the impact of our environment on our internal and external lives, in the context of the current drought crisis of California.” In the video for the song by Vinny de Ghoulie, a man seeks comfort in worlds both real and virtual while McKenzie’s voice soars, almost capable itself of bringing rain. Derde Verde’s new EP is scheduled for release in early 2017.

||| Watch: The video for “Days of Drought”

||| Also: Stream the song here

||| Previously: “Secret”