Meet Motherfuckers JMB & Co! J is for Jim, M is for Marc, B is for Brian.

The trio’s first full-length album, Music Excitement Action Beauty, is a rocket of rhythm and atmosphere that fearlessly treks into vast sonic spaces. Drumbeats spread into constellations, bass pumps air into the sky, drones flare into clouds. Thick grooves drift in and out of focus, but a central force always guides the way as vapor trails shoot past.

Decades of musical archaeology lurk beneath this rainbow-hued swirl of psych, drone, improvisation, and ritual. Brian Weitz, on hurdy gurdy, brings 25 years of sonic experimentation as Geologist in Animal Collective. Jim Thomson, on drums, helped found Richmond art-metal legends GWAR, played in SST alums Alter-Natives, and currently fuels the rhythmic energy of Time Is Fire. Marc Minsker, handling bass, guitar, and harmonium, began his musical path in the early ’90s with Third Eye Lounge (who backed Eugene Chadbourne), and has since collaborated across the mid-Atlantic experimental scene.

JMB formed through old-fashioned community connections, rooted in the fertile DIY soil of the DC/Maryland/Virginia experimental underground. They recorded Music Excitement Action Beauty in a single afternoon at Tonal Park, with lights dimmed and incense and candles lit. Following a three-month break, Weitz returned to the sessions to trim and shape the improvisations into seamless transitions.

The album’s seven tracks cascade into one another, blending like melting scoops of ice cream. A communal energy flows through the music—not just from JMB’s bond, but from the broader circles they’ve been part of for years. There’s a reason there’s a “Co.” at the end of their name: this is music made by three, on behalf of many.

As Jim Thomson puts it: “Every group I’ve played with was usually organically formed and informed by the community and friendships in some ways. I was very attracted to playing with Marc and Brian because of the promise of repetition, drone, and psychedelia—and it delivered in spades.”