The amalgamated acronym “P.C.H.D.M.T” fuses America’s coolest drive, the Pacific Coast Highway, and the world’s greatest hallucinogen, DMT. Just imagine that road “trip” – fractals on Hearst Castle, Big Sur in the spirit world. Giovanni “Nooch” Carnuccio III, who’s hit the drums in Red Dirt acts like Turnpike Troubadours and Cody Canada, now gets weird with genre-spliced beat music like an uncluttered Avalanches. Teasing July LP A Matter of Time, “Nooch” doses a sprightly flamenco guitar arrangement with dance-floor-ready drum breaks and synthesized Italian folk violin. Headphones recommended for the mind-altering stereo panning.?– Kevin Curtin
