Kevin Bronson on November 10th, 2016

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“Extractions,” the forthcoming debut EP from the Golden Tongues, offers up five songs of hazy melancholia built on echoing guitars and understated narration that singer-guitarist Christopher Garcia likens to gazing into the sky during rainfall. There’s a hint of the lo-fi reverie of artists such as Joel Jerome in Garcia’s bedroom psychedelia, and songs like the first single “Paper Moon” ever-so-gently jangle you toward another place — perhaps that dream you had last week but only now remember parts of. “Extractions” (out Dec. 16) follows up the Golden Tongues’ two-song release from earlier this year, “Always on My Mind”/“Moon Waltz.” The new EP was actually recorded several years ago at Garcia’s own studio in Fullerton during a time he was working at a bookstore. Many of the songs “were based on folklore, mythology and occult studies,” he says, adding that the EP’s title is derived from the ancient practice of “‘soul retrieval and extraction,’ which is an ancient and poetic process of recovering lost pieces [of the soul] and [restoring] them back into our lives, thus assisting us into better health, happiness and wholeness.”

||| Stream: “Paper Moons”

||| Also: Stream “Always on My Mind” from early this year

||| Live: The Golden Tongues are doing the free Tuesday night residency at Harvard & Stone, next week with Moon Ensemble and Even Geesman, Nov. 22 with Gardeners Logic and Fellow Bohemian and Nov. 29 with The No. 44 and Dream Phases.