Psych Band Crown Larks Return Home To Kick Off Do Division

• Karina Natis
• Crown Larks

On its recent full-length debut, Blood Dancer (Space Lung/Land Breathing), the hard-working, young Chicago combo Crown Larks demonstrates a learned appreciation for the city’s recent underground musical history (particularly the ongoing collisions between improvised music and art-rock, which has marked the scene for more than two decades). The material is rooted in a hazy strain of expansive psychedelia, with loose grooves that suggest a Krautrock band wrecked on some strong weed: together guitarist Jack Bouboushian and keyboardist Lorraine Bailey sketch out tentative licks and patterns that flicker, ring, and crash over Bill Miller’s drumming.

Blood Dancer by Crown Larks