Weird Owl to Release Healing on Oct. 15
After two impressive and increasingly exploratory full-lengths on NYC’s Tee Pee Records, Brooklyn-based psychotomimeticists Weird Owl have announced they’ll unfurl a new 10″ on A Recordings, Ltd., the label owned by Anton Newcombe of The Brian Jonestown Massacre. The new release — kind of an album, kind of an EP, from what I can gather; “why you gotta put everything in a box, man?” — will be out Oct. 15 and Weird Owl will herald its arrival with a weekender Oct. 3-5 in the Northeast.
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WEIRD OWL RELEASE NEW ALBUM OCT 15, 2013
East Coast Tour Confirmed
Weird Owl will release Healing on October 15, 2013 through A Recordings, Ltd (Redeye Distribution).
Weird Owl formed in Brooklyn, NY in 2004 and has released two full-length LPs as well as several EPs. Their presence and longevity in the New York psych scene has garnered international attention and they have shared stages with bands such as White Hills, NAAM, La Otracina, Hopewell, Earthless, Sleepy Sun, Assemble Head in Sunburst Sound, Quest for Fire, Spindrift and The Black Angels, including at the 2011 Austin Psych Fest.
Healing proves that Weird Owl to be a constantly evolving musical entity, striving to present itself in a continually fresh light. The fuzzed-out guitar tones that were once synonymous with the band have fallen into the background, and a more ambient, textured sound found its place in the forefront. This alchemical marriage of elements new and old resulted in a novel iteration of the Weird Owl identity, bringing the band even closer to the interstellar flight that has always been its objective. Recorded and mixed by Jeffrey Berner (NAAM, Heliotropes, La Otracina) at Galuminum Foil Studio in Brooklyn in April and May of 2013, Weird Owl’s new musical direction revealed itself as an exciting and unique mind blast.
Singer, Trevor Tyrrell posted rough mixes online which caught the ear of legendary Brian Jonestown Massacre founder Anton Newcombe, who offered to release Healing on his personal label, A Recordings, Ltd.
Anton Newcombe states (via email):
THE MESSAGE IS ONE OF COSMIC HARMONY AND SIMPLICITY.
THE PERFECTION OF GEOMETRY AND ABOVE ALL, BEAUTY.
SOMETIMES THE MESSENGER IS A MAN AND SOMETIMES THE MESSENGER IS AN OWL.
Weird Owl is currently John Cassidy (organ, synth, bass guitar), J. David Nugent (synth, vocals), Sean Reynolds (drums) and Trevor Tyrrell (vocals, guitar, synth).
WEIRD OWL TOUR
THU OCT 3 Cambridge, MA @ Middle East Upstairs
FRI OCT 4 Brooklyn, NY @ Death By Audio
SAT OCT 5 Philadelphia, PA @ Kung Fu Necktie (Upstairs Gallery)
Healing Tracklisting (available digitally, CD and Double 10” day-glo pink and yellow color vinyl)
1. Change Your Mind
2. Stars on a Coffin Lid
3. Seventh of Seven Sundays (777)
4. Master of the Mysteries
5. Healing
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