It's hard to wrap your head around what "apocalyptic-psychedelic afro-folk epic" music actually is, but that's exactly how Nathan Lawr describes Minotaurs' forthcoming third album Weird Waves. It's a colorful description, and perhaps colorful is the impression his elaborate string of words were meant to make.
The first released single, "Gold Rush Lady," is filled with melodies that are as radiant as Lawr's statement and the psychotropic cover art. A slick bassline sets the tone as it drifts with a funk groove that immediately prompts head bopping the moment it hits. It's an undeniably smooth tempo coasting with piano dips, fluttering guitar notes, sly fretboard slides, and the whispered vocals of The Weather Station's Tamara Lindeman in the chorus that invoke a chill ambience bringing Nujabes to mind.
But "Gold Rush Lady" never just stays laid-back. In the second verse, Lawr throws in a scintillating horn section blaring a killer big band sound that vivaciously lifts the track leading into the final chorus, before sedating it with a slow fade into a dreamy outro.
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