Los Angeles band Allah-Las incorporate the landscape of their home state into their style of freewheeling garage rock to create sonic dreamscapes. Muscle cars speeding down highways into the cactus-dotted horizon, all-black beatniks in galleries, tambourines and surfer tans – it’s all there when the fuzziness of the guitars kicks in. It’s always been there, too – since their first 7” single, “Catamaran”, on fellow Californian Nick Waterhouse’s Press label, on their subsequent EPs and singles, and best captured on their two albums for Innovative Leisure 2012’s self-titled and 2014’s worship *The Sun*. With the release of their third album, 2016’s *Calico Review* for Mexican Summer, the band brings together romantic lyricism and psychedelic textures that sketches even brighter details onto their sun-speckled designs.
