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Sun Blood Stories Post “The Great Destroyer” Video; Reveal It Runs Around the Room with Us Cover Art

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Boise, Idaho, psychedelic experimentalists Sun Blood Stories recently succeeded crowdfunding a vinyl release for their upcoming album, It Runs Around the Room with Us, raising over $1,300 in about eight hours. In the interest of full disclosure, I also contributed to it. Having previously heard the track “The Great Destroyer,” for which you can see their brand new video below, I knew it was a cause worth supporting, never mind the ongoing thrills their 2015 outing, Twilight Midnight Morning (review here), has on offer. Like I said, they met their goal handily, and decided to donate the overflow to the Sacred Stone Legal Defense Fund. Causes worth supporting all around, then.

To my chagrin, I haven’t heard the entirety of It Runs Around the Room with Us as yet, but as a first public taste, the band offered up the visceral “Burn,” expressing in suitably caustic measure a political disaffection and feelings of rage, helplessness and despair that, to say the least, arrived suited to the season. “The Great Destroyer” follows the rolling psych-rock pattern of some of the more hook-based material from Twilight Midnight Morning but still boasts an open feel marked out by spacious tones, a patient-but-forward rhythm from the now-trio, and the dual vocals of Ben Kirby and Amber Pollard, joined in the three-piece this time around by Jon Fust on drums and keys.

Might be needless to say, but I’ve become a genuine fan of this band, so as I hear more about a solid release date for It Runs Around the Room with Us, I’ll do my best to keep you posted. In the interim, you can check out the construction-paper animation for “The Great Destroyer” by Jason Sievers below and get a feel for why I’m so much looking forward to the record’s arrival in 2017.

Some comment from Kirby on the song and their update re: crowdfunding follow the clip below, along with copious linkage.

Enjoy:

Sun Blood Stories, “The Great Destroyer” official video

Ben Kirby on “The Great Destroyer”:

“The great destroyer is time. And no matter how fast you run or how high you jump, no one escapes it. A lot has changed since the election except for this: death is inevitable either way. You know, ‘time is a prison that holds us all,’ and all that bullshit.”

We want to keep this short and to the point. We’ve got a new album coming out in Spring 2017, It Runs Around the Room with Us, and we want to release it on vinyl. The bare minimum cost for that format is around $1600. We’re not into exploiting our friends and family so we’re asking y’all to donate as much as you’d like to help us a reach a portion of the funds we need. If we can raise $1,000 to $1,200 for wax, we’ll cover the rest.

UPDATE: Going forward, backers will be gratuitously gifted the merchandise that correlates with their contribution amount but we will be re-routing contributed money to the Sacred Stone Legal Defense Fund. We get vinyl, you get vinyl, and we all get to support the water protectors. This what we call a classic win-win-win scenario. THANK YOU!

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