Drugdealer, formerly known as Salvia Plath and even more formerly known as Run DMT — you might be sensing a theme here — is the recording project of Los Angeles musician Michael Collins. Collins specializes in a sunny form of retro-minded psych-pop, and this spring, he’s following up 2016’s The End Of Comedy with a new album called Raw Honey, his first for Brooklyn indie label Mexican Summer. Although Drugdealer isn’t exactly a band, per se, Raw Honey features the talents of drummer Josh Da Costa, guitarists Jackson MacIntosh, Danny Garcia, and Michael Long, and multi-instrumentalist Benjamin Schwab. People like lo-fi synth-country singer Dougie Poole, Harley And The Hummingbirds’ Harley Hill-Richmond, and frequent Collins collaborator Natalie Mering, aka Weyes Blood, show up to lend guest vocals, while Mac DeMarco engineered the album.
