LA bassist Pino Palladino and California guitarist-engineer Blake Mills reunite for their second joint album, That Wasn't A Dream, building on the loose yet precise interplay of their 2021 LP Notes With Attachments, but pushing out farther into open-ended composition, stripping arrangements back to let silence do as much work as the notes. Recorded at Sound City's Studio A with drummer Chris Dave and saxophonist Sam Gendel, the sessions also road-tested Mills' prototype fretless baritone sustainer guitar, lending reed-like swells to the mix. Lead single 'Taka' brims with rhythmic sleight-of-hand and layered melodic turns, its warmly-graded music video directed by none other than director Justin Daashuur Hopkins.