Circles Around The Sun Let It Wander (2LP)

Originally, Circles Around the Sun weren't so much a band as a project. The quartet -- guitarist Neal Casal and keyboardist Adam MacDougall (bandmates in the Chris Robinson Brotherhood), bassist Dan Horne, and drummer Mark Levy -- came together to cut a handful of Grateful Dead-influenced prerecorded instrumentals to be played during set breaks at 2015's "Fare Thee Well" concerts. But concert audiences responded so positively, Rhino issued the music as the album Interludes for the Dead. The group members decided they were having enough fun to continue making music together. Let It Wander is their second double-length album. Circles Around the Sun entered Ventura, California's Castaway 7 Studios and worked on tunes that would showcase a sound they were, as Casal put it, "growing into." These seven instrumentals reveal a progression from Interludes for the Dead. The band was unfettered by any goal when recording, and the sense of freedom is pervasive here.As evidenced by opener "On My Mi