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Seattle psych-surf trio Acapulco Lips have been hypnotizing the Pacific Northwest with their novel blend of surf-rock sounds mixed with old-school girl group bubblegum dazzle all smudged with psych and garage rock fuzz.
Their new album Now stays true to the trio’s sound, but moves a full step forward, using thick wool instead of string to fill-in even more space within their cat’s cradle-like field of layers and textures. The album is all about time: one of the great untangible phenomena that happens around us, but we have to be taught exists. As the trio got deeper into the album, circles and circular patterns became more significant, and the marriage of the time and concentric concepts comes together on “Slowly Disappearing.”
Inspired by singer-bassist Maria-Elena Herrell’s return to her hometown of Laredo, TX, and finding the hospital she was born in wrecked and turned into prime urban exploration subreddit content, the song is about the dissolution of places we know and have known, and with it, sometimes a piece of our identity. But those places weren’t always there anyway, and everything eventually returns to an unknown state to someone. The structure of the song is also circular, able to immediately grow back into itself should you click the loop button.
“Slowly Disappearing” is on Now, out now on Killroom Records.
