Mojave 3 : Puzzles Like You (2026 Remaster)

Mojave 3’s debut, ‘Ask Me Tomorrow’, was a refreshingly stripped down collection that changed little from the original demos. Halstead’s melodic, folk- and country-tinged songs drew favourable (if lazy) comparisons to Nick Drake, Cowboy Junkies and Bob Dylan. Three years later, ‘Out of Tune’ continued where the first album left off and showed a group that had grown in both confidence and cohesiveness. Third album ‘Excuses for Travellers’ contained some of the most ambitious Halstead compositions yet. ‘Spoon and Rafter’ followed three years later marking another shift for the band. While still containing echoes of singer-songwriters and alt-country, the record represents a technicolor expansion of their palette that utilizes electronics, glockenspiels, melodica, and Beatlesque production. Their final album, 2006’s ‘Puzzles Like You’ is a positively bright and fun record that feels right at home next to indie rock contemporaries like The Shins and Band