Photo by Kiernan Francis

Strange Ranger’s music elicits the sensation of recreating the past right in front of your ears and eyes in vapor form. “Way Out”, the latest preview from the Philly experimental rockers third studio effort, Pure Music, tests those limits of nostalgia induction wholly through their manipulation of the sonic-emotion connection. In their current form, the shared electrical forces of guitarist and vocalist Isaac Eiger, bassist Fred Nixon, synthesist Fiona Woodman, and drummer Nathan Tucker again succeed at merging the space-time continuum onto one line where memory elements blur through their sound’s textures – here a cosmic pop collage of shoegazing serotonin rushing to the surface, new age-y synths restoring Eiger’s youth vividly into view, and rippling trip-hop beats and post-punk guitars uphold those moments with clarity into the present. In turn, “Way Out” doubles as a supernatural medium between lives lived and where that same human vessel has escaped to today.

Visuals by: Fiona Woodman

Strange Ranger’s Pure Music will be released July 21st on Fire Talk.