White Fence is one of several active projects by Tim Presley, a California-based musician who played previously in the hardcore punk band The Nerve Agents and the psychedelic-leaning Darker My Love. He also joined The Fall for a spell, playing on the band's 2007 LP Reformation Post TLC and guesting on some of the band's later albums. Working as White Fence, Presley has been incredibly prolific, releasing six studio albums by the time of this writing (seven if you include his collaboration with Ty Segall, Hair).

The White Fence sound might be typecast as lo-fi, psychedelic, folk-rock, and/or garage-rock. A roll call of its influences might include, but certainly not be limited to: Syd Barrett's solo work, The Monkees, The Byrds, Count Five, The Electric Prunes, and Gram Parsons. I hear reminders, too, of many not-so-distant acts, such as Gogogo Airheart. Though White Fence might recall these and similar acts, the project's expansive output to date is anything but derivative. Presley takes his myriad influences and fuses them with his own incredible songwriting ability and distinct sense of melody to create something unique and unharnessed to any one sound or genre. White Fence is undeniably his.

For The Recently Found Innocent seems to build off the momentum of the wonderfully raucous full-band sound caught on White Fence Live in San Francisco (2013), and that was hinted at with Hair and last year's Cyclops Reap. Segall mixed For The Recently Found Innocent, and his exterior input complements these songs nicely and gives them added presence. It still sounds like music made by a man alone in a room, but the room feels larger and it's filled with new things to play with. The result is perhaps the most complete rendering of Tim Presley's wonderfully kaleidoscopic psych-pop sensibilities, and it's probably his most fully-dressed album to date. In 2014, there was nothing like it.