Once again, Brian Glaze leads us through a lounge club whilst you are off your face on psilocybins. Brain Glaze & The Night Shift release another tasty contribution to American psychedelia with "Green Living". At times friendly, other times verging on the morose- this is an album of rock, drama, and soul.

Starting off the album, "Leader of the Band" has a synth-pop, nu-wave feel reminiscent of the Cocteau Twins or the kind of song you would hope to have playing as you snorted coke off the hood of a Delorian. Seriously, with it's falsetto vocals, reggae guitar riffs, and synthesizer waves, it got me right to that 1983 edge and with no care at all "Green Living" pushed me over.

The staccato sharpness of the guitars on "Highway Ribbon" forms a malicious backdrop, which is a nice contrast to the pleasant jangle of "Me No Sell" or self-titled track "Green Living". It kind of had that shitgaze thing going on with "Green Living" a little. With a big treble wash running throughout, like it was pushing red hard. It was either intentional or recorded in a basement.

Did you ever see that closing scene in The Breakfast Club? With that Simple Minds song running over the narration of the letter. Ya know, "...We're all a brain, a jock, etc"? When the last track off "Green Living", "Shake Shiloh", is rolling, that's where I am transported to in my imagination. "Green Living" is the bitter-sweet nostalgia of a John Hughes soundtrack.

Not bad. Not bad at all.