Well, we might just have an Indian summer on our hands if the Allah-Las have got anything to do with it. Psychedelic purists, Miles Michaud, Pedrum Siadatian, Spencer Dunham and Matthew Correia are back with eagerly anticipated L.P number two, ‘Worship The Sun’. Siadatian, Dunham and Correia met at LA’s prestigious record store Mecca Amoeba Music in 2008; you can picture the trio rooting through the endless shelves of vinyl and all emerging from the same crate frantically clutching at a Flamin’ Groovies record.

As notorious record-junkies this Californian four-piece has whole-heartedly inherited West Coast psychedelia. It’s ingrained in their ancestral lineage and man, it hits you immediately. Their self-titled debut, an unadulterated blend of surf and garage rock, heavily influenced by LA’s psychedelic trailblazers: Love, The Electric Prunes and The Doors, seemed so centred on achieving a certain sense of nostalgia, the bands individual sound sometimes fell by the wayside. Not to say it wasn’t a thoroughly enjoyable ride, it just on occasion felt as if you were coasting along a road countless others had already travelled.

Now Worship The Sun is, again, recorded with the same meticulous attention to detail and does draw influence from stacks of classic albums, but this time they may have just created a classic of their own.

The band stated, “Our first record was worked out as we played live. Worship The Sun was arranged within the studio so we experimented with different instrumentation as the songs developed.” And you can really tell. With, previous producer, Nick Waterhouse and Dan Horne of both Beachwood Sparks and Jonathan Wilson’s outstanding band at the helm, this sophomore release sounds more accomplished, full of variety and has definitely benefitted from the pristine production.

Take album opener ‘De Vida Voz’ for example, after the initial hum of static your struck by the immense sound of a fuzz heavy guitar that swiftly, shifts into a smooth, golden guitar section reminiscent of Love’s ‘Alone Again Or’. By track three, ‘Artifact’, you’re really getting into it now. Pushing forward like something by The Animals, it can really only call for one more thing; some intensified, eyes shut, fingers outstretched above your head, wild and erratic dancing (which generally there needs to be more of, all of the time).

The free-spirited instrumentals are also a major highpoint here. The loose hanging ‘Ferus Gallery’ focuses around a steady and seductive surf rock riff and the mellow, ‘Yemeni Jade’ softly rolls over you like the first light of day. But the albums peaks perfectly half way through, with the idling, ‘Salad Days’-esque tracks ‘Nothing To Hide’ and ‘Buffalo Nickel’, followed by the sinfully catchy ‘Follow You Down’ that sounds like a young Ray Davies on lead and culminates in the lyrical beat-riffing of ‘501-415’.

So much ground has been covered with ‘Worship The Sun’; it’s a trip worth taking. So, turn on, tune in and preferably chase them down on tour.

‘Worship The Sun’ will be released on 22nd September 2014 on Innovative Leisure.

David Weir