“The songs would be like cut-out pieces from magazines and the little weird segue interludes would be the glue that holds it all together,” Nelson explains. “I was thinking about how all of the art and music we make are like little time capsules, tangible forms of memories captured and frozen in time, like little plot points in our lives that exist now and we get to dig them up years later and revisit them.” The Overseas Artist Recordings release embraces this concept,  each coming with a thumb drive loaded not only with the songs but videos too, as well as printed album artwork, industrial hemp seeds cultivated by Nelson himself and a physical ticket to a Particle Kid show scheduled for twenty years in the future.

No single track can quite capture the entirety of the project’s ambitious breadth or the Particle Kid sound, but slow burning psych folk song ‘All One Day (Shadow of the Sun)’ is as good a place as any to dive in. The expansive song sees Nelson invite Jim James and father Willie Nelson for a lockdown celebration. “[James], my dad and I all share birthdays in the same week,” Nelson explains, “so I invited him to sing on this song […] I liked the idea of all of us sharing a birthday week, singing a song together about the illusion of time.”

Time Capsule is out via Overseas Artists Recordings on the 22nd April and you can pre-order it now.

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Aquarena blends the folk rock of bands like My Morning Jacket and Band of Horses, the nostalgic dreaminess of Beach House and the psychedelic tendencies of The War on Drugs. It’s a winning combination and one that could bring a great degree of success, especially as the band are readying their debut full-length record in time for the summer (release is scheduled for the 13th of May).

Until then, you can get Aquarena on limited edition 10″ vinyl via Bandcamp.

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Tracklisting:

1. Heroes (David Bowie Cover) – TV On The Radio
2. Shame (PJ Harvey Cover) – Japandroids
3. Close To Me (The Cure Cover) – WHY?
4. Float On (Modest Mouse Cover) – Blackbird Blackbird
5. The House That Heaven Built (Japandroids Cover) – Beat Radio
6. Going To Georgia (Mountain Goats Cover) – Sledding With Tigers
7. Still Life Blues (Elephant Micah Cover) – Small Sur
8. Runaway (Kanye West Cover) – Parts & Labor
9. Flume (Bon Iver Cover) – Emily Sprague
10. Lovely Allen (Holy Fuck Cover) – Shugo Tokumaru
11. Oh! Sweet Nuthin’ (The Velvet Underground Cover) – Bry Webb & Casey Mecija (of Ohbijou)
12. Whirring (Arms Cover) – Windmill
13. Wonderful (The Way I Feel) (My Morning Jacket Cover) – Trampled By Turtles
14. End Of The Line (Travelling Wilburys Cover) – GSJF
15. Constructive Summer (The Hold Steady Cover) – Kelly Hogan
16. Texas In A Drawer (Heidi Spencer Cover) – Conrad Plymouth (Now Field Report)
17. Red Candle Bulb (Withered Hand Cover) – Meursault
18. Yulia (Wolf Parade Cover) – Dan Griffin
19. Kettering (The Antlers Cover) – Sean Atkins
20. Golden Age (Beck Cover) – Strand Of Oaks

As usual if you like what you hear then go out to shows and buy stuff.

(P.S. Be sure to check out Volumes I and II if you haven’t already)

The Covers Mix: Volume #3 from Wake The Deaf on 8tracks Radio.

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