Los Angeles music collective Sumeau invites fans to participate in their structured whimsicality—blurring the line between performer and audience. Just strap on a fanny pack and sing along in their secular psychedelic temple. Kat Primeau, the band's lyricist and lead singer, co-founded the band with multi-instrumentalist, producer, and songwriter Christopher Sousa while working on staff at Hollywood's renovated EastWest Studios, the famed former recording base for legends like Frank Sinatra, Elvis Presley, and The Beach Boys. During slow studio days, they'd tinker with sounds, recruiting musician friends to drop by after work. They eventually compiled enough songs for their self-titled 2014 debut, Sumeau (His "Su"+ her "Meau"="Sumeau," like the wrestler). Sumeau remained a duo for their first cross country tour with the aid of a loop pedal. But they realized their sound was too expansive for that scaled-back format, and accepted their friend's offers to come and play until reaching their current core group of guitarist George Chammas, keyboardist Dan Macken, drummer Robin Harris, Harrison Lee on cello and Moog synth, vocalists Julia Chalker and Molly Dworsky, and aux percussionist Ian McAllister. Their 2020 LP, This is Not a Dream, was tracked at EastWest Studios with versatile engineer Tyler Shields (The War on Drugs, Kamasi Washington, Mac Miller).