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Stuck in the '60s

The Lovetones flip the blacklight on for their throwback psychedelia.

Modern bent on '60s sounds

The gentle jangle and orchestral swoon on the Lovetones' third album, "Axiom,"
might
project the aura of the '60s, but the Australian quartet's songwriter, Matt Tow,
keeps his
psychedelia forward-looking.

"It's important not to forget the past, but what we're trying to do is take the
spirit of that
era and make it our own," Tow says. "The last album was more of a rock record;
now,
because of the instrumentation we used, the music is a lot more textured."

Less swaggering than 2005's "Meditations," the new album (out Tuesday on Tee Pee
Records, home to the Brian Jonestown Massacre) was recorded partly at the Sydney
Opera
House — where the band's engineer works as an assistant — and partly in the home
studio
of Rob Campanella of L.A. kindred spirits the Quarter After.

In fact, the bucolic single "Wintertime in Hollywood" was inspired by a trip to
the U.S. early
last year. "You're on the road and away from loved ones, and you find
inspiration in that,"
Tow says. The quartet plays Monday at Safari Sam's.

Streams: www.myspace.com/thelovetones