After spending a summer in South America, deep in the rain forests of Peru and indulging in ayahuasca (a potent psychoactive elixir), former Anniversary member Justin Roelofs returned to his native indie rock hot spot of Lawrence, Kansas to create White Flight, and in turn has created a kaleidoscopic, genre-bending compendium of bubbly psychedelia, lilting keyboards and other audible elements that whiz around like an absinthe fairy. From the campfire space blues of ‘Solarsphere,’ the brittle funk grooves of ‘Oz Icaro,’ to the clanking tribal trip-hop of ‘Timeshaker,’ Roelofs’s elastic falsetto is at the helm of what is an everything-but-the-kitchen-sink approach. The term ‘freak folk’ may be the on the tip of some critical tongues when describing White Flight’s sound, but Roelofs’s approach is cut from a cloth all its own, riding on an ebb and flow of frolicking reverb that drizzles down like the narcotic ooze of an obscure cactus.

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