Moon Duo: Circles (2012)

West Coast guitarist Ripley Johnson is one of those "hardest working guys in showbiz" types. He's got his main gig with Wooden Shjips, producing droning, psychedelic guitar freak-outs; and, more recently, a couple albums of diametrically opposed yet equally stoner-friendly pastoral, jangly psychedelia as the Rose City Band (whose Summerlong is one of my favorite albums of the year). 

And then there's Moon Duo, featuring Johnson paired up with vocalist/keyboardist Sanae Yamada (which, having relea...