Meet Heaters, a garage rock band out of Michigan who have a good handle on the whole garage-surf sound thing. You might know of their debut album, _Holy Water Pool_, from our coverage last year. Well, they&#x2019;re back and releasing an album on August 5, and we couldn&#x2019;t be more excited.

Today we bring you &#x201c;Elephant Turner,&#x201d; a new song off their upcoming album _Baptistina_. It&#x2019;s a dirty, groovy, heavy track featuring the band&#x2019;s unique vocal tics. Their songs are fairly classic garage rock, but when Andrew Tamlyn, Joshua Korf, and Nolan Krebs come together they create a sound that is equal parts spacey and psychedelic; it's the kind of sound that makes you want to live inside _Almost Famous._

When asked about the song, Tamlyn commented: &#x201c;Parts of _B__aptistina_ were created very much in the moment, as we had a small window to finish recording before going overseas for the winter. "Elephant Turner" is a good example of that; a sort of off-the-cuff, late night jam in the studio that ended up being one of our favorite songs from the record to play live."

Listen to the song now, then check out the tour dates, then go swimming. _Baptistina_ is out August 5 via Beyond Beyond is Beyond. Preorder it [here](https://heatersbbib.bandcamp.com/album/baptistina-pre-order).

From Heaters' 2016 LP "Baptistina" on Beyond Beyond is Beyond Records, August 5th: https://heatersbbib.bandcamp.com/album/baptistina-pre-order

Less than a year after the release of “Holy Water Pool” – Heaters’ debut, a crushing, revelatory psycho-surf-rock anointment-as-album – there are no apparent signs of distress to the engine that powers this Michigan-made vehicle of sound. To the contrary, Heaters are operating at a higher horsepower than ever before, as evidenced by the 2016 release of “Baptistina.”

“Baptistina” glimmers to a greater degree than anything Heaters have previously unleashed, a full-spectrum sheen that shines across the full panorama of righteous reverb riots. Heaters are in full control of their machine from the opening, looped-lunacy of “Centennial” to the final crash of “Seafoam,” forty-six minutes later – and yet the result of this increase in control can be heard as a willingness to crash their ship completely. But have faith in the pilots – Heaters are living for the next ride.

“Centennial” rides the wave effortlessly, setting the tone for the album in full, hovering in the atmosphere above strutting, Bolan-blasts of riff-rock-lift-off perfection before letting the edges drift and blur, exploring the gravitational pull of less solid ground. Taking the first three songs of “Baptistina” – “Centennial,” “Ara Pacis” and “Orbs” – together is to take the sacrament of a singing, searing psych-rock sinfonia, an expertly-constructed breed of amplified surrealism, framed by the tight corners and unmistakable electric glory of what was once known as rock and roll. It doesn’t matter thatHeaters are not trying to answer the musical question, “What if Grand Funk Railroad got really into Flying Saucer Attack?”; what matters is that the answer is there for the taking.

The album’s centerpiece may very well be “Garden Eater,” a perfectly prepared prescription of the relentless sonic schizophrenia in which Heaters deal so effectively. At nearly eight and a half minutes, it’s about twice as long as anything that appeared on “Holy Water Pool,” giving ample room for the band to spread their sound into broad, bold new dimensions – hypnotic, Hawkwind-hued chanting harmonies, anyone? – without ever detaching from the very root of their sound. It’s perhaps no surprise that the following track, playfully named “Dali,” would be a throbbing reminder of the persistence of memory, given its Silver Apples-esque flavor precedes the perfectly placed flower-power-pop of “Mango.”

The final three tracks of “Baptistina” recall the superb symmetry of the album’s opening trio, an undeniable triptych of pace, power and persona, garage-rock gurus emerging from thin air, spent snares and a dramatic lack of cares. On “Baptistina,” Heaters don’t sound weirder than before – they simply are.

- Ryan Muldoon

Heaters - Elephant Turner

6-24 - The Blind Pig, Ann Arbor MI  
6-25 - The Pyramid Scheme, Grand Rapids MI  
8-2 - 300 Club - Toronto, ON  
8-3 - L'escogriffe - Montreal, QC  
8-5 - Baby's All Right - Brooklyn, NY (album release show)

_Annalise would rather be on a bus to her bed, but for now she's talking about tacos on [Twitter](http://twiter.com/bananalise)._

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