Stream: All Things Blue, ‘Lully’

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All Things Blue

Don’t look for a thematic thread in the debut album from All Things Blue, the left-field psych-rock project of India Coombs and multi-instrumentalist/producer Jon Joseph.

As Coombs herself says, “I feel like everybody has a spaghetti brain. In one moment you’re talking about politics and what’s going on in the world, and then the next moment you’re thinking about somebody that you really like. It’s the ups and downs of the human brain.”

So on “Get Bit” (out Dec. 11 via Terrible Records), Coombs can be fragile and lovelorn on one song and raging about politics the next. The styles (and volume, for that matter) shift as well, from garage-rock to shoegaze to sun-baked, almost-free-form psychedelia.

The new single “Lully” falls in the latter realm; it’s a trippy meditation on environmental sustainability. “My brother sent me an article about farms using flood irrigation on their cotton crops in Arizona and how unbelievably wasteful it is,” Coombs says. “Cotton is the most widespread profitable non-food crop in the world and its current production methods are completely environmentally unsustainable.” (This summer’s single “White Lady Dogs,” however, takes on something a little closer to home, gentrification.)

Though not the first artist to pose the question, Coombs wonders “Where’s my mind?” in the single “Dicking Around,” and the answer on “Get Bit” might simply be: everywhere.

||| Stream: “Lully,” “Legend of Chav” and “White Lady Dogs”

||| Also: Watch the video for “Lully”

||| Previously: “Chad,” “Designed Inversions,” “Yellow Heart”