Canadian instrumental trio En route, boys released their self-titled debut album today via Groupe Fovéa.

Taking their moniker from a line in Hunter S. Thompson’s Hell’s Angels, the group channels mid-century North American counterculture into a distinct Quebecois strain of Cosmic Americana. Alexandre Gariépy, Marc-Antoine McMullen, and Clément Desjardins abandon standard song structures. This record sounds like a hallucinated road trip.

Modular synthesizers warp beneath delay-soaked electric guitars. A breathy saxophone cuts through the haze to anchor the weirder ambient jazz tangents. The trio balances soundscape experimentation with a very deep cinematic atmosphere. You can hear the miles passing. Detours and desolate open landscapes dictate the slow unfolding of each track. The whole project feels like staring into a rearview mirror at midnight.