Cincinnati-based band In The Pines captivate across their new album, Sunbeam Dream — moving across psychedelic, prog-rock, shoegaze, and beyond with a knack for melodic, absorbing structural reveals. Among its numerous highlights are the tracks “Time Shakes” and “Hide The Sky.”
“Time Shakes” floats in with ample mystique, with jangling guitars, bouncy bass, and a flute-y frolicking moving into a soothing vocal enthrallment. “Life moves so slowly,” they let out as vibrant guitars move with plucky allure. A theatrical tonal pulse arrives at the one-minute turn, propelled thereafter by a shimmering vocal radiance that shifts back into the initial lushly inviting dreaminess. The track is a delight of an earworm, caressing in its psychedelic power-pop glow.
Also succeeding, “Hide The Sky” struts a harder-rocking charisma — maintaining a psych-ready edge in its suave guitar work and hazy vocal tones, while rumbling moments of ardency traverse seamlessly into a synth-laden second half with prog-rock inclinations. Sunbeam Dream affirms In The Pines as adventurous craftsmen of mood and melody, weaving familiar psych and prog textures into something strikingly fresh and immersive.
Stream these tracks and the rest of the album, below:
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These and other tracks featured this month can be streamed on the updating Obscure Sound’s ‘Emerging Singles’ Spotify playlist.
