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Sun Blood Stories Make Noisy New Offering with Static Sessions: Vol. 1

Earlier this month, Boise, Idaho’s Sun Blood Stories let out for the Pacific Coast to support the release of Haunt Yourself (review here), their fourth long-player. Interestingly, they characterize it as lacking a “noise aspect,” which I mean, I guess in comparison to some of what they did on 2015’s Twilight Midnight Morning (review here) or 2017’s It Runs Around the Room with Us (review here), one could argue it was less droned-out in some parts, but it didn’t strike me particularly as anything beyond a natural progression of where their sound was headed anyhow. But hey, you know, presumably when you’re in the band you feel differently about these processes. Fair enough.

Thus arrives Static Sessions: Vol. 1, a pure noise release that’s actually longer than the 45-minute album to which it’s intended to serve as companion. Comprised of just two tracks, it’s indeed more or less a wash of noise, and while I haven’t put it on at the same time as Haunt Yourself or anything like that (at least not yet) and I don’t think it was intended to be such a direct addenda to the album proper, there’s no doubting the fact that its echoing tones and experimentalist psychedelic vibe is Sun Blood Stories through and through. Maybe it’d work, I don’t know. The time doesn’t synch up, but whatever. It’d be fun to try.

Sun Blood Stories have a history of circa-Halloween outings — recall Samhain Variations (review here) from 2015 — but it’s been a minute, so even with the recent full-length out, I’ll take a little bit of noise happily.

I also like that the two tracks at “Chapter 7” and “Chapter 19.” I’m sure there’s a reason behind it, but the hint of a story in progress (the Vol. 1 also feeds this idea) adds another element of cool to the whole thing.

Streaming below, DL up on their Bandcamp:

sun blood stories static sessions

Sun Blood Stories – Static Sessions: Vol. 1

In September of 2019, Sun Blood Stories released Haunt Yourself and while Haunt Yourself may be the most comprehensive and beautiful album from the band yet, the band thought the album lacked a certain noise aspect that they love. So to scratch that itch, the band recorded this noise album that you’ll probably hate.

Tracklisting:
1. Chapter 7 33:12
2. Chapter 19 23:37

Sun Blood Stories is:
Amber Pollard – keys/noise/vocals
Ben Kirby – guitar/noise/vocals
Jon Fust – drums

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Sun Blood Stories, Static Sessions: Vol. 1 (2019)

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