ESG – Step Off (Vinyl LP, Fire Records) - Mint / Sealed Blue Note psychedelic masterpiece — a mix

psychedelic masterpiece — a mix of Laurel Canyon harmony

it finally got repressed by LaMunai Records after out of circulation for decades

psychedelic textures

or perhaps because of it

Cinematic strings meld with layered synths and melodic guitars to create songs that hint at Depeche Mode

ESG – Step Off (Vinyl LP, Fire Records) - Mint / Sealed Blue Note psychedelic masterpiece — a mixReissue of their comeback album that was originally on Soul Jazz. Eleven years between LPs, and yet Step Off picked up exactly where ESG left off, neither unnecessarily updating their signature sound nor retracing over ground they previously staked out. Recording for Soul Jazz, the label whose 2000 retrospective A South Bronx Story reclaimed the group's austere, remote grooves from the clutches of sampleheads, ESG (joined here by second generation