Some records arrive. Others unfurl. Sam Blasucci’s Physical Dream — out now — is firmly in the latter camp: a sprawling 28-track double LP from the Ojai, CA-based singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist and producer who has spent the better part of a decade quietly shaping the sound of Southern California roots music as one half of Mapache.

This is Blasucci’s fourth full-length and his first double album, and it sounds like an artist finally emptying out the drawer — in the best possible way. Physical Dream is stitched together with field recordings, jazz percussion, baroque flutes, acoustic guitars and classical piano, an unconventional orchestra summoned in service of songs about romance, mysticism, solidarity, and the kind of political resistance that feels less like a slogan and more like a lived posture. It’s a love letter to the communities who raised him and to the scenic landscapes of the American Southwest, with Blasucci himself describing it as “heavily revelatory of the shadow and more ‘below the horizon’ sides of myself.”

The centerpiece — and closing statement — is the title track, “PHYSICAL DREAM,” a shimmering, warm finale that pulls the album’s many threads into one glowing knot. According to Blasucci, the song is “the merging of life with the unseen hidden parts of the soul… It’s just me praying, which I don’t even really believe in anymore, but for some reason I feel compelled to ask of any god or any power in the universe to merge my physical world with my dream world.” Fittingly, the melody and chord progression have haunted him for nearly ten years, since he first started writing his own music. “Very much a dream turned physical after many years,” he says.

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Blasucci — born in Los Angeles, with stops in Coahuila, Mexico, Orem, Utah, and New Orleans along the way — has been praised by KCRW and JamBase for his sonic versatility, and Physical Dream feels like the record that finally gives all of those influences and addresses room to breathe on the same canvas. From the opening glow of “TENDER AURAS” through detours like “VOLCANIC,” “WHO LIVES ON THESE LANDS,” “Sí SE PUEDE,” and “COFFEE MARTINIS,” the tracklist reads like a hand-drawn map of an artist who refuses to sit still.

He won’t be sitting still in person, either. Blasucci kicks off a U.S. and Canada tour this month, starting with a hometown album release show at El Cid in Los Angeles on April 22, then rolling through Phoenix, Fort Collins, Denver, Salt Lake City, Boise, Vancouver, Seattle, Portland and Arcata before a May/June run that hits Santa Cruz, San Francisco (two nights at The Chapel), South Lake Tahoe, San Diego, Santa Ana, Pioneertown’s legendary Pappy & Harriet’s and Ventura — capped by Buellton’s Come What May Festival on June 13 and 14.

SAM BLASUCCI — U.S. & CANADA 2026
4/22 – Los Angeles, CA – El Cid (record release show)
4/28 – Phoenix, AZ – Linger Longer
4/30 – Fort Collins, CO – Magic Ray
5/1 – Denver, CO – Lost Lake
5/2 – Salt Lake City, UT – Urban Lounge
5/3 – Boise, ID – Neurolux
5/6 – Vancouver, BC – The Biltmore
5/7 – Seattle, WA – Sunset
5/8 – Portland, OR – Bunk
5/9 – Arcata, CA – Richard’s Goat
5/28 – Santa Cruz, CA – The Catalyst
5/29 – San Francisco, CA – The Chapel
5/30 – San Francisco, CA – The Chapel
5/31 – South Lake Tahoe, CA – The Hangar
6/3 – San Diego, CA – Observatory North Park
6/4 – Santa Ana, CA – The Observatory
6/5 – Pioneertown, CA – Pappy & Harriet’s
6/6 – Ventura, CA – Ventura Music Hall
6/13 + 14 – Buellton, CA – Come What May Festival

Physical Dream is out now. Press play, let it sprawl, and if Blasucci’s tour is rolling through your town this spring or summer, grab a ticket — this is a record that wants to be heard both in headphones at 2 a.m. and in a room full of people who believe in it.