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Garrett T. Capps is a San Antonio singer-songwriter and honky-tonk bar owner who turned Texas twang into something that hums like a circuit board. With NASA Country, his four-piece, he runs roots and country tradition through modular synth and the motorik pulse of Kraftwerk and Hawkwind, a self-styled "cowboy kraut" sound. Everyone Is Everyone is his sixth album and second with the band, a surprise prequel to the Shadows Trilogy that braids psychedelia, punk, and Krautrock into wide-open desert country.
We caught this one through the family: Capps and the band played our 2025 Austin Psych Fest, and the live set made the case for putting it on wax. Pressing it as a Levitation Edition felt like the obvious next move.
What grabs us is how naturally the two halves sit together. The synths never feel bolted onto the country; they ripple underneath it, so a steel-guitar lament can drift into a krautrock groove without losing the thread. It is the most dynamic, fully realized thing the band has done, looser and stranger than anything in the catalog, and it earns the "prequel" framing by feeling like a door opening rather than a victory lap.
If we are nitpicking, a couple of the longer drift sections test your patience on first listen, and the record asks you to meet it halfway before it pays off. Stick with it, though, and the back half lands hard.
That is exactly why it belongs on vinyl. The low-end pulse and the spread of the synth-and-steel mix want a turntable and a quiet room, and our "Sunday Blues" Galaxy pressing (limited to 100) gives this odd, gorgeous record the object it deserves.
Recommended if you like: Christian Bland & The Revelators, Joel Gion, Golden Animals.
