Lorelle Meets The Obsolete

The Mexican group Lorelle Meets the Obsolete draw inspiration from almost every strain of psychedelic music of the '60s -- from jangling folk-rock to scuffed-up biker rock -- while adding elements of '90s noise rock and, later in their career, avant-garde electronics. Working as a duo, they initially crafted murky, swirling sounds on albums like 2013's Corruptible Faces that reflected the claustrophobic life they were leading in the big cities of Guadalajara and Mexico City. After they moved to the more relaxed environs of Baja, their sound became less traditionally psychedelic and more experimental; on 2019's De Facto they began to add more synthesizers and 2023's Datura delved into sparse dub and industrial-influenced noise rock.