Five albums into their cosmic Americana, The Sadies keep treading down familiar trails. Their roundup of surf, bluegrass, and psychedelic country is still awash with waves of lingering reverb and a backbeat rhythm of upright bass and drums, grounding the sonic textures from complete lift-off. “What’s Left Behind” is a low-gauge nickel frenzy of guitar picking virtuoso, a lonesome barn-burner whose arsonists are “…still tripping on what we have left behind.” The slightly slower “The Trial” recalls 50’s era Slim Whitman (see “North Wind”) with its feeling of lost control galloping through a reverb vacuum. (Yep Roc) –Lance H. Smith