Lee Fields & Monophonics

The Bay Area's Monophonics contemporize the heavier and more psychedelic sounds of late-'60s and early-'70s soul while also drawing from other facets of that era's R&B and jazz. Active since the mid-2000s, they've issued albums ranging from Playin & Simple (2007) to It's Only Us (2020) and have supplemented those recordings with a larger crop of singles.