The Minders

Beginning as a branch of the psychedelic pop collective Elephant 6, the Minders grew from a recording project to a high-energy live act. Their sound expanded from one album to the next, detouring into garage, Baroque pop, and paisley psych territory over the course of a decades-long discography. The band's recorded output slowed in the mid-2000s, but they returned after a decade-long hiatus with 2006's Into the River. The album updated the band's usual lo-fi take on jaunty pop, but lost none of its experimental tendencies. The Minders were formed in 1995 by British expatriate...