Flavor Crystals

Add Date May 22

Artist: Flavor Crystals 

Album: Three

Label: mpls ltd

Genre: Indie rock

Comments: Let's imagine a series of hypotheticals: It's summer 2012, and you're wanting to reenact a modern-day Woodstock. You hit up Urban Outfitters for the clothing (hipster chic is the new hippie chic), the local Volkswagen dealership for the car (a denim blue Beetle 2.5L with Sunroof, Sound and Navigation, for instance), and Trader Joe's for the munchies. Man, I'm really pulling a Stephen Colbert with all this product placement, aren't I?

The only thing left to get for your 21st-century flower power fest is music, but with Flavor Crystals' Three, you won't have to look any longer. The 4-piece space rock group's second album has all the '60s psychedelia, '70s kraut/prog, '80s kiwi and current shoegaze/indie sounds for you to bridge the generational gaps between Woodstock and Coachella. The band brings some pretty spontaneous and sprawling and wobbly sounds to this album, but don't let that stop you from spacing out (in a good way) to tracks 1, 2, 7 and 13.