Listen: Brass Bed streams 2016 album In the Yellow Leaf on NPR
 

http://media2.fdncms.com/gambit/imag.../brassbed1.jpg The fourth album from Louisiana's preeminent rock 'n' rollers*Brass Bed (Lafayette brethren*Jonny Campos, Peter DeHart and*Christiaan Mader)*makes its*streaming debut via NPR. (Listen below.)

The band ? influenced equally by Harry Nilsson, Big Star, psychedelic relics and krautrock atmospherics ? gleefully, wittily smudged its songwriting with blurry pop and fuzz-covered rockers for its 2013 breakthrough*The Secret Will Keep You,*which shook the band's power-pop and psychedelic foundation for In the*Yellow Leaf's*wrestling matches with despair, regret and the kinds of self-mockery and self-awareness that comes with age, romance and often-painful nostalgia.

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