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Published on 2026-04-26
Brooklyn's EVOLFO shares their new album Of Love via their own Food of Love label. Of Love being EVOLFO spelled backwards, the record stands in as a self-titled record; almost as if this is the debut of the band as its most present and progressive version. Their tour is underway, with Desert Daze-presented release shows in LA and NYC, details below.
Like many socially conscious artists, in lieu of putting the full album online with – as EVOLFO describes – a "company that’s using their profits to promote AI and violent war tech," EVOLFO will be releasing Of Love on streaming platforms such as Qobuz, Bandcamp, or Subvert, as well as on vinyl -- as the record as intended to be heard.
While today's focus track, “Detach,” is more of a callback to the band’s roots as a purely psych rock band – paying respects to where they’ve come from and how growth has always been at the heart of the band – this new record is psych rock through an ever-racking lens.
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. “Rest Your Head on the Stone” filters roller rink disco through the more soulful corners of prog, daydreamy drone rock, and the reverberating retro aesthetics of chill-wave. Further album highlights include a balladic "Adrian," boasting chord progressions that bring you through tunnels to the light with "show-stopping Laurel Canyon-like aura" (Occult Magazine), "Modern Prometheus" and its wailing chorus, and the curtly laid back escalation of funk over the 144 seconds of "Aquarian Blue."
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, Oh Sees, or Kikagaku Moyo, Allah-Las. Interjecting are glimmers of Khruangbin’s atmospheric experimental approach and melodic affinity, the improvisational immediacy of SML, the rawness of Ty Segal’s Manipulator, and an occasional vocal harmony that brings you back to 2007, hearing “Comfy in Nautica” for the first time.
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.
Influences on the record include but are not limited to: Jungian “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 an accesable database of great diners….
On Of Love, EVOLFO iterates on their id-fueled, lightning-in-a-bottle moments to explore broader sonic and interpersonal frequencies; the art is only as good as what you learn about yourself while you're making it.
4.23 Thur // San Francisco, CA // Bottom of the Hill
4.24 Fri // Sacramento, CA // Corner Spot
4.26 Sun // Palmdale, CA // Transplants Brewing
4.28 Tue // San Diego, CA // Soda Bar
4.30 Thur // Santa Cruz, CA // Crepe Place
5.01 Fri // Ahwahnee, CA // Sierra Grass
5.02 Sat // Los Angeles, CA // Gold Diggers
5.07 Thur // Brooklyn, NY // TV Eye
