Low Flying Owls

When Low Flying Owls first hit the scene in mid-2000, local inner voyagers were caught off guard by this young, garage-y quintet playing unabashedly psychedelic rock ’n’ roll in an early Pink Floyd mold—kind of like a harder-edged version of Flaming Lips or Mercury Rev. On the heels of a couple of EPs, the Owls now grace us with a fine full-length CD. While there are only five proper songs on this 35-minute-long disc—“Captain’s Sun,” “High Noon,” “The Snow Song,” “A Song for You” and “Sparkling Jets (No Turbulence)”—the overall flow from start to finish is unrelentingly trippy, from the softer moments that center around singer Jared Southard’s delicately glam-ish vocals (e.g., “Sparkling Jets,” which opens thus: “God is cruel and I am a lemon / Pucker up Sally and live forever”) to such droning guitar instrumentals as “Bees Bleed Honey” and wah-wah’d laughers as “Sounds Like New Year’s.” A swell outing.