Partisan

There’s a new tower of power hailing from Oakland, Calif. Only instead of big, brassy groove pop, they play pulsing, swirling psychedelic modern rock. And from the sound of the latest
from the Lumerians, it only gets better with age. For The High Frontier, the quintet tighten up the volume by exploring the krautrock and postpunk sections of their inner music libraries to bring the idea of the album’s title – nicked from the name of a 1976 book about human colonization in outer space – to sonic fruition. And by replacing the hallucinogenic rhythmic patterns of
2011’s Transmalinnia with Goblinesque breakbeats on tracks like “The Bloom” and “Life Without Skin,” they are doing their funky city proud.