Shoebox Days 12"

Brainstory named this EP after Shoebox, the cramped, now-shuttered Long Beach room where singer Kevin Martin and drummer Eric Hagstrom's band cut earlier records, and the songs work as a kind of tribute to that specific space. Big Crown Records describes the sound as G-funk-style bass tangled up with psych-rock, soul, and jazz-tinged rhythms, with "Blend" singled out as one of only two vocal tracks on the release. It keeps up the band's run of genre-crossing singles and EPs for Big Crown, following Buck, Sounds Good, and Ripe.