The boogie is strong with Soft Eyes on their most recent album. With Stay Home, the New Hampshire outfit refines its sound, which the group describes as “devotional/bummer” music. That may be so, but there is also a certain “tale of two Soft Eyes“ at play here: in the live setting, the four piece achieves something closer to its self-described “vibe rock.”

Case in point: early this summer, Boston Hassle covered the album’s advance single “(I Guess That’s All) I Can’t Remember.” That track very much describes a groove-oriented feeling that is central to the Eyes’ sound. It also defines one of the recurring themes of Stay Home — a certain interweaving/interlayered exploration of instruments at a different level.

See, for instance, “Big Sun,” where twangy guitar and harmonica revolve around one another to create a sound not unlike an electric hurdy gurdy which hasn’t been properly grounded, and as such seems to be shooting sparks here and there. The vocals are removed from the foreground, half-chanted and half-sung, and all of the power is upfront with the flanged guitars and that organ sound, harmonica weaving in and out.

Real weight from that “in and out” boogie is felt on album closer “Sunshine Cats.” Indeed, the track most closely resonates with the live sound of Soft Eyes in its seven minutes of drone-inflected, kaleidoscopic imagery. Here, that hurdy gurdy isn’t merely shooting some sparks: it’s a full-on tower of power, wires dangling, electricity fully palpable.