“Goodfellas” by Tai Haf Heb Drigolyn

For fans of LA Timpa, The Olivia Tremor Control, Los Thuthanaka, sound collage, and the awkward gaps in life between meaningful moments which we will ultimately go on to forget, “Goodfellas” by Tai Haf Heb Drigolyn uses psych pop sounds and radio surfing aesthetics to find new forms of liminality. By designing an album bookended by two full-length, more conventionally structured songs, the band leaves the space between to allow for the experience of getting lost in an overflow of seemingly random information, sounds entirely untethered from the contexts of beginning, middle, and end. As the record snaps back into form to end with a haunted simulacrum of a familiar psych pop sound, we’re left unsettled by that liminal hallway we just traversed, unable to get back into the headspace that takes these aesthetics as something light and consumable. We’ve found the gates to the abyss hidden within this outwardly safe environment, and there’s nothing we can do now to unsee that existential horror.