Less than a year after their crushing, psycho-surf-rock debut Holy Water Pool, Michigan’s Heaters return with Baptistina, their second release on Beyond Beyond is Beyond. The record is drenched in reverb, filled with hazy psychedelic shredding that brings to mind images of spraying seafoam and daydreaming in the sunshine. Heaters successfully mix modern psych and surf-rock sounds with the motoric, hypnotic beats of krautrock, easing the listener into a shimmering trance with grooving basslines and washed-out guitars. Above all, Baptistina sees Heaters operating at a higher horsepower than ever before, perfecting their brand of searing psychedelia.
