They’re the modern sound of San Francisco past, with sweet folky rock born of freewheeling blues jams and vintage mentality. The Assemble Head in Sunburst Sound‘s second album for Tee Pee Records, When Sweet Sleep Returned, is hippie psych melody taken to echoing extremes. The music is springtime vibrant and organically grown and all the drugs are geared toward mind expansion rather than escape — which, I suppose, is a kind of escape in itself.

Hey man, did I just blow your mind?

If so, that’s nothing compared to the explosive potentiality packed into When Sweet Sleep Returned, which sets up a commune and gives each of its eight tracks a period of not more than three weeks to act as a sort of executive officer whose decisions must be ratified by a two-thirds majority of the others. I’m willing to wager that all five of the band’s members were born at least 12 years after 1970, but just because they weren’t there the first time doesn’t mean they can’t enjoy it now.

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