Forest Ray are good at making the old sound new and the new sound old. As self-proclaimed believers in analog recordings, there is a strange physical component to their music—like you can almost hear the tape-thingy being fed through the rolly-thingy (I obviously know nothing about anything truly analog as a tail-end millennial. Let me know when someone releases an album on HitClips.) In any case, their distinct blend of psychedelic rock and folksy Americana—doused with a healthy bit of nostalgia for the 1960s—would make anyone want to smoke some grass and stare at a mesmerizingly patterned tablecloth. Check them out and float. by Jas Keimig