Gray/Smith - Heels In The Aisle

With Heels In The Aisle, Gray/Smith return for round two—and they don’t come quietly. This LP is a smoky blend of scorched-earth psych, roadhouse ballads, and cosmic dust storms, where honky-tonk meets no-wave in a back-alley bar fight. From the nearly side-long opener “The SDSPS” to the beautifully ragged take on the Zimbabwean traditional “Guabi Guabi,” it’s a glorious, hazy sprawl of artful wreckage.

Tracks like “Help Me” reinterpret outlaw country with a slow-burning ache, while “Verrazano Tile” and the title track channel Staten Island mysticism and asphalt poetry. “Gaslight Boulevard” swaggers with woozy space-rock intent, and “Kekule’s Ring” lands like a final, half-lit prayer.

For fans of outsider Americana with a psychedelic heart, this is an evocative, fried-lens follow-up wrapped in a lush, downtown-art aesthetic.