Laughing Matter

Laughing Matter offers bits of fuzzy parable, travel diary, pep talk and lullaby, amid a joyous, eclectic sense of pastiche and ascendant choruses. Wand form new music from the ashes of a world that can no longer suffer its human abusers, to inspire us to hold the spirit close and do what’s next.

As they pare away at their sound, Wand move further away from psych-rock and closer to true psychedelia.

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Beginning in 2013 as a gnarly psych band with garage tendencies, Los Angeles' Wand quickly made several albums of weird and suffocating music.

Roughly a year after the release of their EP, Perfume, and a little less than two since their fourth studio album, Plum, California garage r...

Succeeding their hallmark album Plum, the Los Angeles’ garage rock gang, Wand, plummet head first into the mystical void of psychedelia with the release of their spellbinding, sonic masterpiece Laughing Matter.

Since their beginnings in league with Los Angeles garage greats Ty Segall and Mikal Cronin, Cory Hanson and his compatriots in Wand proved themselves restless rock inventors.

It’s the propensity for shifting through sounds and styles that makes Wand such a fun band to listen to on their latest album 'Laughing Matter'.