Sky Country prepares for tour, new album at Cannery Row Brewing Company.

Nico Georis, singer/songwriter/guitarist/keyboardist ofalternative country-psychedelic surf rock band Sky Country, brims with so much prolificness it starts to stack up around him.

“I’m sitting on 30 or 40 pretty much finished songs,” he says. “It’s like being a photographer and shooting more rolls of film than needed.”

Now he has reinforcements to help develop them. Sky Country is now a four-member band. Georis was joined by Mikey Selbicky (lyrics/vocals/guitar) in 2013 and, soon after, Adam Zerbe (vocals/bass) and Will Condon (percussion).

Selbicky describes the band’s sound as “when the desert meets the sea – western frontier meets desert vibes meets ocean.”

The twangy guitar-driven first track on their 2014 album Pacific Garage, “Hamburger Stand,” tastes like a guilty pleasure, echoed in lyrics about a mysterious girl who “bought a dream at Foster’s Freeze.” But, as is typical with Sky Country, supernatural elements lurk – trains are coming and going to and from who knows where. The song’s subject gets “a dream from a world of phantoms” and falls in love “under spooky skies.”

Another track, “Lazy Girl,” is a hazy, deconstructed surf melody. Guitar frays and decays into creepy, cooing harmonies, laying the listener back in bed on a hot afternoon.

“Save Some Whales” confronts the hypocrisy of people who call themselves progressive, but don’t act. “Why do you talk so much/ I don’t really see you doing that stuff… I don’t care about any weird kind of status you think you’ve gained.”

In addition to a California tour beginning next month, the group is recording their upcoming album, The Ghost of Jim, inspired by musician and band influence Jim Sullivan disappearing on his way to Nashville in 1975. His car and guitar were discovered in New Mexico.

They are working in a shack outside of the 100-year-old barn in Carmel Valley where Georis lives, using refurbished organs, pedals and microphones he inherited from his father, Gaston Georis of the ’60s surf rock band The Sandals.

Georis says the band decided to record in the shack for a “cool, more intimate sound.” Some parts are being recorded in an underground room for a “spooky, natural sound.” “We’re sun-shiny dudes,” Georis says, “but the world is a dark and mysterious place.”

SKY COUNTRY 9pm Saturday, Aug. 15. Cannery Row Brewing Company, 95 Prescott Ave., Monterey. No cover. 643-2722.