Sundae Painters by Sundae Painters

Heartbeats, breaths, seasons, sunsets, birth, and rebirth. Everywhere we look, cycles govern the natural and spiritual worlds, a fact that industrial society has had no choice but to subsume into its standard operations. Psychedelic music has always latched onto this natural rhythm, and this synergy with nature drives the songwriting on Sundae Painters by Sundae Painters. This New Zealand psychedelic rock band pushes 60s psych ideas to their extremes without substantially altering their production or instrumentation techniques. Where your typical Beatles single would exit its musical circuit and move back to a chorus, Sundae Painters instead keeps their songs in limbo, slowly expanding upon the motif that haunts the rhythm section for the duration of the song. By tapping so deeply into the most basic tropes of human perception, namely pattern recognition, Sundae Painters remain easily accessible despite their intense experimentation. Seeing this subconscious rhythm externalized inspires us to listen even when the music stops, to find ways of remaining in tune with the world when there’s no drum in our ear to keep us in line.