Arts and Crafts is a new Oakland/SF-based trio, and their debut album Petrolia is a sweet wiggly piece suspended somewhere between the coolness of Khruangbin and the zany desert wanderings of King Gizzard. Across six morphing jams, the guitarist rocks, the bassist stays funky as heaven, and the drummer crashes and rides our consciousness into bits and pieces. The EP takes its name from the unincorporated community in Humboldt County where it was recorded (in “an old haunted house,” according to the band), and the town got its name from being the site of the first oil well drilled in California. Spooky.
