Kevin Bronson on September 22nd, 2011

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The Nocturnes’ gorgeous hybrid of folk and dream-pop is the stuff of slow-motion dreams and translucent hallucinations. The L.A. quartet is the brainchild of Red Sparowes guitarist Emma Ruth Rundle, who along with RS bandmate Dave Clifford on drums, guitarist Julian Rifkin and multi-instrumentalist Paris Patt, fashions dirgey anthems out of echoing guitars and choral harmonies – think Red House Painters behind Beach House. Their new album “Aokigahara” is the first with the current lineup; 2009’s “A Year of Spring” was largely a collaboration between Rundle and drummer Daniel Yasmin. “Aokigahara” is not necessarily for the nocturnal, but it’s not for the daylight either.

||| Download: “The Road” (and remixes) at Bandcamp, or get the whole album here.

||| Live: The Nocturnes play Sept. 30 at the Central SAPC.

||| Watch: After the jump, check out Rundle’s video for “The Road”: