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Orchards is one of the latest Cincinnati bands to join the roster of Old Flame Records, the established indie label founded in Brooklyn in 2008 and brought to Cincinnati after founder Rob Mason moved to town. The label has embraced Greater Cincinnati’s rich music scene, releasing material by local acts like Automagik, Harbour and Frontier Folk Nebraska and helping the artists garner wider attention in the process. (The 2016 “New Artist of the Year” Cincinnati Entertainment Awards winning Dawg Yawp is also working with the label; the duo’s Old Flame single “Can’t Think” premiered on the Consequence of Sound music site in late April and built up such a buzz it hit the Top 40 on Billboard’s Spotify Viral chart.)

Orchards’ Old Flame full-length is due this fall. Below is album track “Summer in Bloom,” which thrills like something Queens of the Stone Age and Tame Impala would come up with in a jam session. A dynamic, pulsating slab of fuzzy, buzzy Rock & Roll laced with ebullient melodies that closes in a shimmery cloud of psychedelia, “Summer in Bloom” is a perfect driving song, particularly in the summertime with the windows down and the volume up.

Here is what Orchards has to say about the track:

“ ‘Summer in Bloom’ is a song about just that, summer. It describes what could be considered the perfect summer. Although not much is said, the lyrics allude to everything happening without a hitch. The style of the song was inspired both by Tame Impala and Unknown Mortal Orchestra. We had spent months bouncing the idea around, at one point even recording it in an older incarnation, but it never felt entirely right. When reworking (it), we knew that we wanted it to be bouncy, yet retain its fuzzed-out qualities. When we play this song live, we typically extend it into a sort of atmospheric jam, but we didn't want to draw things out on record. In a sense we wanted to keep the recording short to reflect how quickly a summer can pass you by, especially if done right.”

Orchards play Saturday night on Fountain Square with labelmates Automagik, which recently released a new EP, The Road. The music video for the EP’s title track debuted earlier this week on the Pop Matters site; check it out here.

Saturday’s free show is a part of Fountain Square’s FSQ Live series. Orchards take the stage at 8 p.m., followed by Automagik at 9:35 p.m.