Circles Around The Sun have an upcoming double album, Let It Wander, due out this Friday, August 17th via Rhino. The new music marks the first release since the band’s acclaimed 2015 debut record, Interludes For The Dead, which was composed especially for the set break music at the Grateful Dead’s “Fare Thee Well” concerts in 2015. Following “Immovable Object“, today, the band released the album’s second single, accompanied by a new music video, “One For Chuck”, featuring a cameo by hip-hop legend Chuck D, via Ultimate Classic Rock.

The charismatic leader of legendary hip-hop pioneers Public Enemy happened to stop by the studio while the band was listening to a song they’d just recorded. He raved to the band how much he loved the music, so they asked him to record an intro. He obliged, and they dedicated “One For Chuck”, the resulting track, to him. Check out the new music video for “One For Chuck” below:

Circles Around The Sun – “One For Chuck” [Official Video]

[Video: RHINO]

Circles Around the Sun is comprised of guitarist Neal Casal and keyboardist Adam MacDougall (bandmates in the Chris Robinson Brotherhood), as well as bassist Dan Horne and drummer Mark Levy. The band recorded the new set of instrumentals at Castaway 7 Studios in California. Stepping away from the Interludes For The Dead character, Circles Around The Sun’s new album embraces their own personality as a band while maintaining the distinct, groovy sound of their inspired debut album. “More than anything, what you hear on this album is a band growing into its own sound,” Casal said in a press release.

The songs on Let It Wander are focused and filled with imaginative musical turns. Horne and Levy form a veritable groove machine that knows intuitively when to tighten up and when to stretch out. They expand and collapse the rhythmic pocket around Casal and MacDougall, who pass melodies back and forth in an elaborate game of musical tag as they take turns adding color and shade from a seemingly endless kaleidoscope of cosmic sounds.

You can view the track listing for Let It Wander below. For more information, head to Circles Around the Sun’s website.

LET IT WANDER // Track Listing

1. “On My Mind”
2. “One For Chuck”
3. “Immovable Object”
4. “Halicarnassus”
5. “Tacoma Narrows”
6. “Electric Chair (Don’t Sit There)”
7. “Ticket To Helix NGC 7293”