The members of Michigan’s The Outer Vibe would probably forgive you for thinking they’re from California. They get it all the time.

“It got to the point where it was funny, and I don’t think we have ever told anybody even as a joke that we’re from California,” trumpeter/keyboardist Lisa Kacos said during a phone conversation with all five members of the band from a tour stop in Spearfish, South Dakota. “But I guess we write music that’s wishful thinking — it sounds beach-y. And I guess we all sort of look like what one might think California looks like, whatever that may be — long hair.”

“I think we look like what people from the Midwest believe California (looked) like in the ’60s or something,” lead guitarist Nick Hosford added.

The band describes its most recent album, 2015’s “Full Circle,” as “cinematic surf disco” or “Clint Eastwood drinking a pina colada at a Dick Dale concert” in its online biography. These are neither the sounds or vibes (inner or outer) associated with Grand Rapids, where Hosford and lead vocalist Sean Zee began performing together in 2000. It truly is wishful thinking.

“Michigan has some brutal winters,” Kacos said. “And so the best way for us to overcome those winters is to lock ourselves in the studio and make sunny-sounding music. That’s pretty much where that came from. A lot of it’s the music that we like, too. We like to feel good, we like to write music that makes us feel good and we like to write music that makes other people feel good. Like Noah (Snyder, drummer) likes to say, ‘It sounds like a slice of paradise.’”

The quintet — also featuring bassist Andrew “Wonder” Dornoff — will deliver a slice of their paradise to Volcanic Theatre Pub on Wednesday. It’s only the second time the band has performed in Bend; in January the group made its Central Oregon debut at McMenamins Old St. Francis School.

While certainly a new face in this market, the band is really new everywhere, according to its members. While the group has a 16-year touring history and three previous studio albums, its members consider “Full Circle” and its sunny, surf-meets-spaghetti Western songs to be a rebirth.

To that end, the band plays only three songs total from its previous albums, including 2012’s more power-pop influenced “Hoka Hey.” In fact, good luck finding any of this material on streaming apps such as Spotify — though the video for the title track of “Hoka Hey” is still on YouTube, and the band’s early albums can be purchased at its website, theoutervibe.com, and shows.

“Honestly, it’s not that we’re trying to hide that. It’s more that we’re just going forward; we’re kind of moving in a forward direction with our sound,” Kacos said. “We’re constantly writing. We wrote 20 songs in one week in December before we hit the road. We write just about every day as individuals and as a group, so we’re more focused on just what the sound currently is and where it’s going.”

The band recorded those 20 songs as well, once again with “Full Circle” producer Brad Dollar. A handful of these new songs, in live form, appear on this year’s “Live at the Intersection.”

The shift in sound came three years ago when Snyder joined the band, solidifying what had been a revolving-door lineup.

“It definitely was a conscious decision,” Snyder said of the band’s stylistic reinvention. “I guess me joining the band was just a good excuse to do that, but I think these guys were probably itching to do that for a while. With me joining the band, all of a sudden a role was filled that I think wasn’t before.”

Snyder also plays guitar and writes songs, helping him slip into the band’s marathon writing sessions. The atmospheric, Ennio Morricone-inspired “Shining Like a Diamond” was the first song the band wrote for the 10-track “Full Circle” and set the template for the rest of the sessions.

“I think as far as ‘cinematic surf disco’ goes, I feel like … that’s a really good example, because you really get that disco kind of beat to it, and you have Lisa’s trumpet that gives it that cinema feel, almost like a movie score, along with the classical guitar at the beginning,” Zee said. “… That was actually like the first song of this new The Outer Vibe that you hear today, the ‘Full Circle’ of The Outer Vibe and beyond. That was kind of a turning point for us, so that song’s pretty cool for all of us.”