After discovering Phaze’s very excellent single, “Backwards”, at the beginning of the summer, I’ve been double-checking the Phaze bandcamp frequently ever since, hoping an album of some sort would appear eventually. At last, I’m excited to review Good Nature, which is the latest, EP-sized offering from Boston’s own Phaze , a Jesse DeFrancesco and Andrew Prouty duo.

Bluesy, psychedelic, folky, crackling, and transcendental, Good Nature is a sonic exploration of one’s sense of place and time. The six-plus minute opus “Pemigewasset” and more subdued “Tidals” are both odes to the natural world, while “Backwards” is a glimpse at life in the city. “Time” smartly rounds out the album– it seems to acknowledge Good Nature‘s tail-end-of-summer release in recognizing that “time is a season” and those carefree nights and impossibly long days can’t last forever.

Ya dig? Grab it on bandcamp, keep an eye out for a cassette release, and catch Phaze TONIGHT at the Middlesex.