I’ve never had a music experience like I did when I played the EP of Everybody loves Raymond by BRAAINZZ. I was in my room with my friend Ethan when I started playing $iren of Titan. I was working on my resume when I felt my sense of multitasking slowly dissipate until my mind just opened up into a psychedelic trip all on its own. So after hearing the slide guitars, tape loops and some auto-tuning, the next song started playing, NewRita (feat. Slide Show), who is featured in 3 of the 7 songs of the EP. This contagiously experimental group does whatever they want, whenever they want too. A hypothesis in the making, BRAAINZZ’s spacey folk music is mixed with a fusion of country, rap, pitch bending and a new pretentious style called shroom folk; or how he likes to call it – trippy shit. Dick Flair, BRAAINZZ’s resident animator who created the tripped out, airy, kaleidoscopic feel to StoneColdSteveBoston, gave ILLieNel$oN’s a Willie Nelson, auto-tuned, rich sounding voice. Road trips are one thing I suggest while listening to this conscious-expanding album; endless roads and clear skies pave the way for this Highland Park band. – Kayla Hay