For Los Angeles rock band the Allah-Las, working on their first new album since 2019’s “LAHS” didn’t mean just cramming into a studio with a mission to produce, but instead allowing their creativity to flow in a more relaxed environment.

“I think this record is the most off-the-cuff because we didn’t have too many fully written songs before we went into the studio, so it was a lot of loose ideas that we finished while recording,” said guitar, synth, and vocalist of the band, Pedrum Siadatian in a recent video conferencing call. “It came together really quickly, and I think it led to not overthinking decisions. We experimented more, and I think we were more comfortable doing that.”

The quartet comprising of Pendrum, Matthew Correia (drums/vocals), Spencer Dunham (bass, guitar, vocals) and Miles Michaud (guitar, organ, vocals) will be performing songs from their new album “Zuma 85,” which dropped on Oct. 13, during a pair of back-to-back shows in their hometown at the Lodge Room on Wednesday, Nov. 15 and Thursday, Nov. 16.

The band’s latest album is a departure from the group’s early years, when the music oozed psychedelic, garage and surf rock melded with folk and jangle. The surf rock genre, in particular, had seen a revival in the late ’00s and into the new decade, with music festivals such as Desert Daze and Beach Goth spotlighting similar artists on their lineups. It’s been more than a decade since band released their self-titled album, and with “Zuma 85,” they were ready to turn the page.

“I don’t see the purpose of revisiting something that became so ubiquitous throughout Southern California,” Michaud said. “By 2015-2016, that sound was anywhere you went in L.A., and I think as artists, when something is saturated like that, it kind of turns you off from it because you’re always in pursuit of something new and different. I think that’s kind of our driving force.”

The album was recorded at the Panoramic House in Stinson Beach with co-producer Jeremy Harris, who worked with artists such as White Fence, Devendra Banhart and Sam Gendel. With three sessions in the books, the band tapped frequent collaborator Jarvis Taveniere, who mixed the album in Los Angeles and has done work for other acts such as Woods, The Avalanches and Purple Mountains.

The result became “Zuma 85,” which is undoubtedly a contrast to the beachy and sometimes rugged tunes found throughout the band’s discography. It opens with “The Stuff,” a track that’s vocoder gives it a retro boogie sound that the band had yet to experiment with. There are familiar elements of the Allah-Las also sprinkled through with progressive rock tracks like “GB BB” and “Smog Cutter.” Despite the familiarity, “Zuma 85” incorporates late-era Lou Reed and John Cale and mixes them with bits of Japanese pop and loner-folk sounds.

The Allah-Las had prided themselves in releasing one album a year and then touring the next for most of their career, but with the coronavirus pandemic, that level of production and touring would cause the band to pause just like the rest of the world. The disruption and the time apart from each other ended up doing the band’s creativity some good.

“What really had an effect on this record is that we’d been spending such a large amount of time together over the past eight years that all of our ideas started to meld together,” Michaud said. “We were forced to separate for a couple of years (and during that time), you kind of dive deeper into what personally turns you on and what you’re interested in. When we got back together in the studio, we were more individual again than we had been. I think that is really what made the whole process refreshing and exciting again. Everybody just kind of got to express themselves a little more individually, and as a collective, that just makes it more interesting.”

Correia said that the band went into the studio more focused on having fun creating together than anticipating what listeners would think, but the band is hoping to catch the audience off guard in a good way at the hometown shows.

“We’ll be playing two shows at the Lodge Room, which is a fun place, and we’ll be playing a lot of neat stuff for the first time in L.A. that’ll be fun to share with people, Correia said. “It should be a good show.”

Allah-Las

When: 8:30 p.m. on Nov. 15-16

Where: Lodge Room, 104 North Ave. 56, 2nd floor, Los Angeles.

Tickets: $35 at lodgeroomhlp.com.