Haunted Summer

Where the desert meets the forest is the land Haunted Summer inhabits. That chaparral biome, the lush arid landscape of Los Angeles, continues to inspire the duo’s hypnotic musical harmony.

Mixing LA-trademark harmonious psych-rock with an even more decadent stream of acoustic dream pop, song sorcerers – and husband-and-wife duo Bridgette Moody and John Seasons – create rapturously organic tracks from the truth of the heart.

Hailed internationally, their 2017 debut full-length Spirit Guides helped push a band with lots of momentum to the next level. The album accentuates the underwater qualities that blossom within their sound palette, unveiling a true shoegaze expedition through beautifully ambient lands. “Sour Grapes” is a blissful treasure of the rarest form, as are some of the fuzzier and heavier tracks, like “Every Step” – amplifying the heat but keeping the air and pressure cool.

Now, in 2022, Haunted Summer returns with its triumphant third LP, Whole. Recorded with Grammy Award winning producer Be Hussey, and released via LaunchLeft, the new album discovered a chillness and a lightness that breaks into a new realm of palatability. It is as peaceful as the quaintest dwelling, yet harmonically challenging and interesting in the abstract elevated moods that can entrance and take you over.

The tones on Whole creates a sonic space that a folk orchestra would produce inside of a wooden dome. It resonates the sounds of Topanga acts like Spirit, Linda Perhacs, America, Simon & Garfunkel, and some Brian Wilson-esque percussion and arrangements. It’s a pantheon of pure aesthetic melancholy, meant to harmonize the chaos.

Whole was inspired by friends and fans the band had met while touring, and also by growth and loss. The title song “Whole (A Song for Taylor)” is about Moody’s formative friend and former bandmate who passed away in 2018. The album is a concept of reaching one's full capacity through pain, loss and love, something that became even more relevant in the current climate we find ourselves in.