Holed up in a Sunnyvale tract home, The Orange Peels have written the next chapter in the California Sound. If the band's first two albums, Square (Minty Fresh) and So Far (SpinArt), were the groundwork for their newest effort, the foundations were well laid. Still, no one could have predicted the soaring heights and sweeping soundscapes of Circling the Sun. Taking cues from the terrestrial and the celestial, the band's third album at once more earthy and spacey than its past works. It's the sound of a band transformed. It shows in Allen Clapp's expansive song and vocal arrangements, which echo a lyrical preoccupation with the weather and the cosmos. It's evident in Jill Pries, whose grumpily melodic bass lines propel the Peels' songs in new directions. Perhaps it's the addition of Oed Ronne (the Ocean Blue), a multiinstrumentalist who joined the band in late 2002 on lead guitar and keyboards. Or the fact that the band broke free from its garage to work again with producer Bryan Hanna (who collaborated on the band's debut disc) in the new world-class acoustic spaces of the Terrarium in Minneapolis. Whatever the case, the Peels emerge reborn - tambourines shaking, guitars chiming, string arrangements fluttering --beckoning you to the golden shores of the West Coast. STANDARD JEWEL CASE