Kevin Bronson on April 1st, 2013

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The legacy of Medicine has been referenced increasingly in recent years – main man Brad Laner’s continued explorations is experimental psychedelia is one reason, but another is the current wave of nu-gazers who have made the one-forgotten Los Angeles band influential. Probably best known outside cult circles for crashing the Cure/STP/Rage/NIN party on the soundtrack for the 1990s film “The Crow,”  Medicine were the rare U.S. band on Creation Records and one of Rick Rubin’s noblest experiments on his American Records. (Any purported fan of shoegaze music who does not own a copy of 1992’s “Shot Forth Self Living” is, well, just purporting.) Medicine recently found another champion in the Captured Tracks label, which in addition to re-issuing the band’s catalog announced today that it would released Medicine’s first album in 18 years, “To the Happy Few” on Aug. 6. The first single “Long As the Sun” (“not an April Fool’s joke,” Laner says on his website) shows both sides of Medicine; they could be pretty-as-a-popgazer one moment, and dissonant, raging and noisy the next. Nice to have you back.

||| Download: “Long As the Sun”