Today, Brooklyn’s EVOLFO shares their new single “Rest Your Head On The Stone,” from their forthcoming new album, Of Love due April 24 via their own Food Of Love label. Evolfo iterates on their id-fueled, lightning-in-a-bottle moments to create an album of sonic and interpersonal progression that explores a broader frequency of emotions. They’ll take it on the road with a West Coast tour this spring + Desert Daze-presented release shows in LA and NYC, details below. Listen/watch “Rest Your Head On The Stone” here and presave Of Love here.

“Rest Your Head on the Stone” is a spellbinding single that filters roller rink disco through the more soulful corners of prog, daydreamy drone rock, and the reverberating retro aesthetics of chill-wave. Versus sung in octaves – both bright and grounded – lead to weightless, wordless harmonies on the chorus evoking these early hints of summer days.

Of the track, Ben Adams (Guitar/Synth/Vocals) says, “When we looked back at this instrumental and started to try and weave a story together out of it, the first thing that came up was serene, psychedelic ocean experience. What we ended up with is a story of love, loss, and an acceptance of impermanence akin to the waves crashing on a rocky shore and receding back in to the ocean”

The accompanying video summons up impressions of sun-washed VHS tapes like you might have seen on the Old Grey Whistle Test or Public Access TV

Watch the official video for “Rest Your Head On The Stone” here
Styled by Collina Strada
Previous single “The Committee” leans into an Anna Butterss-esque bass-driven groove and shuffling drums that build a meditative foundation; an elaboration on previous single “Restless Seed”‘s hypnotic, self-actualizing psych groove. The Committee of which they speak is this spammy, secretive, organization fundraising for something mystifyingly vague. Ahead of its release,  cryptic flyers showed up around Brooklyn and Manhattan urging onlookers to call: 1-646-481-4820. It’s not just an idea, its the reality in which we’re entwined.

On Of Love – and across their 2017 debut album, Last of the Acid Cowboys, 2021’s Site Out of Mind, two EPs, multiple singles and innumerable raucously received performances; see their recent Audio Tree session – Evolfo offers a feast of expressive psych soul, sinister garage, and spaced-out experimental rock in line with Can, Yes, Osees, or Kikagaku Moyo.

Further influences on the record include but are not limited to: Jungian psychology like “Psychology of the Unconscious”; The Tibetan Book of the Dead; Irmin Schmidt (Can)’s book “All Gates Open,” where they got the inspiration to build their own recording space, just like Can did with Innerspace; Teo Macero’s innovation in tape editing while working with Miles Davis; Brian Eno’s ability to do both the experimental and accessible at the highest level of emotional potency; Diners, and the idea of creating a database of great diners….

To further shirk their inhibitions, Evolfo established Sound Home and their Food Of Love label so the band and its community could have more creative flexibility and freedom. The studio itself became an instrument. Swink says, “All of us are playing in a very uninhibited way, and I think that gives the record a lot of magic.” Change begins at home, and at the studio, the collective – Swink (keys, vox), Matt Gibbs, Ben Adams, (guitar, vox), Ronnie Lanzilotta (bass), Dave Palazola (drums), Kai Sorensen (guitar, vox), and Jared Yee (saxophone) – trusted their inner collective compass, instinctively adding notes of feeling to an amorphous aural stew.

“The art is only as good as what you learn about yourself while you’re making it,” Gibbs continues. “I’d encourage people to take the rock stardom out of music and just make an album with your friends.”