Family Worship Center

Psych-soul collective Family Worship Center return with their second LP, Only Visiting. After several years of touring, recording, and eventually backing legendary songwriter Donnie Emerson, the band leans into sun-soaked 70s rock. Moving beyond the rootsier, Leon Russell–meets–The Band sound of their earlier work, they draw from The Mac, The Dan, Laurel Canyon, and AM Gold. Only Visiting is built on warm electric piano, rich vocal harmonies, and laid-back grooves, nostalgic, but not stuck in the past. The album’s liner notes claim these songs were originally unearthed from a lost-tape recorded between 1974 and 1975, a detail that feels oddly plausible.