Blitzen Trapper at the Record Bar

​You need some stonewashed jeans and a time machine, sang Eric Earley at the Record Bar last night.

Given Blitzen Trapper‘s band’s effortless melodies and crystalline harmonies, he’s right: as much as the band is adored by fans of the band’s burnished, roots-rock sound, Blitzen Trapper is not of this era. Instead, the band is known for

experimenting with the echoes of the Laurel Canyon folk sound of the late ’60s,

rolling a colorful bunch of influences into a folky feast of sound.

The Portland band journeys from their pruned California

folk aesthetic found on Furr to a more

expansive, proggy sprawl on the band’s latest release, Destroyer of

the Void. The band’s fifth album finds the

band yet again finger-painting with genres in a vivid pastiche of sounds, eras,

and story yarns.