On August 8, lo-fi blues maverick Willis Earl Beal release his latest album, Experiments in Time. The follow-up to this year’s A Place that Doesn’t Exist EP is self-released by Beal, who recently parted ways with XL. Beal describes the album in a press release: “The whole record is like one dream. I always wanted to put something together that was meditative and that could never interrupt your life. You can play it while you’re having dinner, and you won’t be bothered.” Describing it as a “lo-fi symphony”, Beal said it “sounds a bit scratchy, and the way I decided to sing sounds old-fashioned. I used this Casio synthesizer that gives it this retro-futuristic minimalist feel.” He continued, “That’s why I decided to call it Experiments in Time, because it has this grey tint. I have synesthesia, so I see colors and shapes of sounds, and it felt very white, grey, and silver to me.”