The Lavender Flu

Conjuring a powerfully trippy sound that's a lo-fi mashup of psychedelia, garage rock, folk-rock, various stripes of '70s rock, and improvisational experimentalism, the Lavender Flu create a one-of-a-kind variety of acid rock that whispers, howls, or sings at the will of the individual songs. Initially a home-recording project, the Lavender Flu made a grand-scale debut with 2016's Heavy Air, a 30-song epic that overflowed with sounds and styles. As the project evolved into a band who could play live shows, they explored the possibilities of the recording studio on 2020's Barbarian Dust and issued real-time improvised albums like 2024's Los Pelacaras. 2025's Tracing the Sand by the Pool captured them in a (relatively) concise and song-oriented frame of mind.