Mellish’s music sounds unhurried, from the dreamy murmur of “January Sun” to the foggy folk drift of “Are You With Me” an impressive mood piece colored by drifting pedal steel guitar riffs that unfurl like a slow-motion iTunes visualizer. While the band have spent decades cultivating their sound, which marries icy atmospherics with a warmer, earthier slate of influences, including Neil Young and Floyd and Wilco. Slide guitar, pedal steel, and harmonica’s fill in the margins; one of the better tracks, the somber, dramatic “Valerie” boasts an overture ornamented with harmonies, lush instrumentation, and atmospheric riffs, reminiscent of a Bad Seeds.

The result is perhaps the weariest sounding, but more memorable bands you’ll hear this year. Occasionally the band shifts up a gear, resulting in overcast mid-tempo rockers like “Smile” or “New Arc,” – Mostly, though, Mellish is an intricately crafted pastoral travelogue, piecing together the sighing psychedelic twang of “Wake,” the acoustic jangle of “Here We Go Again,” the gorgeous campfire reverie of “Not This Time,” and the folktronica death rattle of “See The Light.” If there’s an inadvertent theme, it’s what Pipolo describes as “reflections on time, death and longing for happiness.” That’s apparent on one of the group’s best songs, “Wiser Eye,” with its velvety groove and cryptic references to an unnamed poison taking over one’s life.