Stream: Imaginary Persons, ‘Leave Me in the Desert’

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Imaginary Persons

Tommy Alexander has been incubating his solo psych-rock project Imaginary Persons since 2013, releasing a self-titled EP in 2015 but keeping the project mostly on the back burner behind other endeavors, such as playing bass with the dream-pop duo Magic Wands.

Now, Imaginary Persons are front and center again, baking in the Southern California sunshine. Earlier this month, the band released their first single in almost five years, “Leave Me in the Desert.” It the first tune to emerge from Alexander’s collaborations with multi-instrumentalists and songwriters Chris Pink and Lief Sivesind. Last year, the trio recorded an album with Riley Geare, working in various locations such as Joshua Tree, Echo Park, Venice and Big Bear.

The album is California dreamin’, desert style. “Leave Me in the Desert” rises out of the dust as if refracted by heat waves in the Mojave Desert, with expansive synths and languid beats that could inspire slo-mo dances with sagebrush. Imagine something Tame Impala might write if Kevin Parker’s tour bus broke down on a forlorn stretch of California Route 62.

The album, which is not yet titled, is due later this year.

||| Stream: “Leave Me in the Desert”

||| Previously: “Never Broken,” “Goin On,” “Give”