These are Magical and Poisonous times, so the songs feel a little warped in that sense.
The Brooklyn-based psychedelic rock band Weird Owl is working on a new album
(with a very cool guest musician).
happiness = I got to talk to Trevor about it!
Read the full interview below and learn more about the album and the band.
The traversal of cosmic realms, and the band's role as guide/shaman, is a hallmark of psychedelic music. Weird Owl has brought us on many such journeys through opulently beautiful worlds. The "mysterious darkness and quasi-sinister force" flowing within and among the realms is implicit, of course, but Weird Owl is a soothing, trustworthy, and ultimately liberating shaman.
Weird Owl's albums are vortices to be experienced in their entirety. I play them while shooting or making other art and am transported right into my creative world.
My very favorite track of all is this: Seventh of Seven Sundays from their Healing album.
Their new album is coming soon. This is excellent news.
The Band
- Trevor Tyrrell (guitar, vocals)
- John Cassidy (bass)
- Sean Reynolds (drums)
- J. David Nugent (synthesizers)
I received this very enticing message from Trevor this morning:
We're finishing the mixing of the record now. No release date or title yet, but still a lot of great psych gems. There's a special guest appearance by Genesis Breyer P'Orridge as well, but that's all I will say about that! Top Secret!
Together with producer Jeff Berner, Weird Owl has recorded nine tracks and are in the final stages of mixdown. Will they release it on their own? Will they sign with a label? Stay tuned!
Talking with Trevor
Miri Boheme:
will the album continue the trajectory of former albums, or will it be a departure of any kind?
Trevor Tyrrell
It's always a departure from the last record for us, because we don't really repeat ourselves 100% musically or lyrically or thematically. Still guitars and synths out the wazoo, but this record seems heavier and poppier at the same time than our last.
MB:
it seems to me that your albums acquired a "softer" feel as the years went on. like, a rounder, more subtle feel. "heavier" and "poppier" make me think this one will be taking a different turn. would you agree with this assessment?
TT:
Yeah, with "Healing" we got a bit softer and warmer, and then with the last record we pushed that as far as it would go in one record & put it into space.
MB:
so that sound was an exploration rather than a settling in. and the exploration continues.
TT:
I'd say so, but we retain elements of it for sure.
Part of the trouble for me with even naming the record is that I cannot place it yet in a psychic space, and that is where I normally am able to name things--what environment they inhabit naturally. So this means, we're definitely somewhere different, maybe even some place I don't know so much about yet myself.
These are Magical and Poisonous times, so the songs feel a little warped in that sense.
*I was lucky enough to hear a rough mix of three of the new tracks. The sweeping, lush, serious loveliness of past work is all there, but there is a relaxed, innocent earthy-ness to these tracks that feels a little different. More physicality with the cerebral. They are all gorgeous.*
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| hug them. |
Keep up with Weird Owl:
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This description of Weird Owl's Build Your Beast a Fire, released on TeePee Records in 2011 might be the greatest description of an album I've ever seen.
...it remains clear that Weird Owl moves through its environment with one eye on the decay of the undergrowth and one eye on the starry heavens above, for as much as BYBAF seems at home in the seeds, roots and canopy of the forest, it also appears to be just as comfortable far beyond in the infinite swaths of interstellar space. While this might sound as if the band has found safety in the innocuous niche of nature-doting hippiedom, the likes of which will crank out driftwood sculpture and macramé owls unto the end of time, Weird Owl’s implicit acknowledgement that the forest in which it dwells is also inhabited by The Beast invokes a mysterious darkness and quasi-sinister force into the proceedings.
they're great live:
Trevor designs and creates these awesome gig flyers and posters:
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| i like this one bc archaeology. |
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