• San Fran psych revival, just in time for summer.

Listening to Help feels like finding a box of your coolest uncle’s forgotten garage 45s. Thee Oh Sees have mastered the art of sun-drenched reverb and AM radio compression, reminiscent of great bands like The Turtles, The B-52s, and The Troggs. The Bay Area quartet fuzzes out songs like “Destroyed Fortress Reappears” in a way that makes band members John Dwyer and Brigid Dawson’s vocals clash fantastically — much like the purple bat and the rainbow that adorn the album’s cover.

Although this release is far more straightforward than last year’s scattershot The Master’s Bedroom is Worth Spending a Night In, there are still fantastic surf-psych moments suitable for almost any roadworthy, summery mixtape.