 In the 2000s, West returned to his rock roots and began a steady release of albums in collaboration with Aguafantastica, Sidewalk Society.and LoveyDove.Sidewalk Society, a band from Long Beach, California, who are described as "obvious anglophiles", "the USA's best interpreters of 60s UK sounds", and "plenty of contemporary punch", was credited for "writing in the musical languages of their influences without sounding like mere copyists" on their album Venus, Saturn and the Crescent Moon.