In a city with as many psych bands as there are microbreweries, you’d be hard-pressed to find a group with as extensive and consistent a discography as the Shivas. Behind five full-length albums and what’s quite possibly the single best garage-pop song to come out of the Northwest (“You Make Me Wanna Die” from 2014’s You Know What to Do), the Portland three-piece is a steady force in an ever-changing local music scene.
The Shivas’ latest EP, Turn Me On, is their third release through the seminal Los Angeles tape label Burger Records, with vinyl to be released on Annibale Records. While it doesn’t leave behind the group’s 1960s rock iconography—lo-fi, reverberated lead vocals, and bouncy guitar hooks woven together with ohhhing-and-ahhhing vocal harmonies (“I Hear You Screaming,”“Turn Me On”)—Turn focuses more attention on the sultry, down-tempo tracks.