The Smoking Trees

The Smoking Trees take inspiration from the trippy psychedelic sounds of the '60s, adding lush baroque pop melodies and dubby studio effects to their feather-light songs. Based in Los Angeles, the founding members of the band, Martin Nunez (aka Sir Psych) and Al Rivera (aka L.A. AL), kicked the idea around for years before getting serious and releasing their first album, Acetate, in 2013. After another album, 2015's TST, L.A. AL left the band, but Sir Psych kept making sunshine-bright psych-pop albums, like 2018's The Adventure Continues. Formed in 2001 when they were both...