Lsd and the Search for God - Heaven Is A Place (Limited Edition) [Blue Marble]

Heaven Is a Place is a five-track EP of reverb-drenched bliss from San Francisco band LSD and the Search for God, now available on limited edition blue vinyl.

The group was never in a hurry. They surfaced in the mid-2000s with a self-titled EP that shoegaze obsessives passed around like bootleg, then went silent for nearly a decade before this album arrived in 2016. That patience is showing. Everything here is built on the model of Creation Records, the guitar tuning of My Bloody Valentine, the sense of menace of The Jesus and Mary Chain, Slowdive's willingness to let a chord simply hang and flourish, but it never plays like an homage. The band understood the mission: bury the vocals, let the guitars express the emotions, trust the listener to lean in.

Heaven opens with a wall of shimmering distortion with male and female vocals braided so tightly they sound like one voice. (I Don't Think That We Should) Take It Slow is the closest thing here to a pop song, hooks surfacing through the fog, while Outer Space earns its title with a slow psychedelic drift. Without You closes the set with the foggiest and heaviest piece on the album.

Twenty minutes, and not a single second wasted. The blue vinyl suits the ambiance perfectly.