After earning critical acclaim on 2013’s double EP One/Sunbeam Sound Machine, Sunbeam Sound Machine has released their debut long player, Wonderer. A dreamy pysch-pop release with heavy emphasis on catchy and repetitive lyricism – the kind that entrances the listener as it transports them to another world.

Wonderer plays out semi autobiographically with lyrical questions of self-reflection, self-improvement and self-progression. The listener heads on the journey with Sowersby via the album’s down-the-rabbit-hole tunnel of sound and emotive stimulation. The entrancing sound of Wonderer is transportive whilst retaining an endearing and intentional self-awareness. Though emotive, the album isn’t an emotional slap in the face but rather a journey the listener and Sowersby take together calmly. The layered quality of the record fills any space it occupies; be it headphones, bedrooms or live venues.

Sowersby’s simple lyricism asks questions of the listener as the ambient swirling dream-pop burrows through their ears and etches itself into the brain. It is a layered record that will fill any room when the five-piece band plays the album live. Sunbeam Sound Machine will be performing at Black Bear Lodge on Friday January 9.