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Sun Voyager Premiere “Caves of Steel” Video; Debut LP Seismic Vibes Available to Preorder

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I don’t even want to talk about how long I’ve been waiting for the debut album from Sun Voyager, but suffice it to say, it’s been a while. The New York-based heavy psych trio’s early EPs, 2015’s Lazy Daze tape (review here) and 2013’s Mecca (review here), brought immersive thrills delivered with the inimitable energy of youth, and splits with Greasy Hearts (discussed here) in 2014 and The Mad Doctors (discussed here) last year only furthered anticipation. Though it’s taken them a fair minute to get there, the band will issue their first long-player in the form of Seismic Vibes via King Pizza Records on April 20, 2018. The album actually exists. You can preorder it now direct from the label.

And I suggest you do. Not just because the numbers are limited, but because Seismic Vibes — about which I’m of course hoping sun voyager seismic vibesto have much more coverage over the course of the next several months — indeed follows through on the potential Sun Voyager has continued to show over the last several years, drawing from grunge, psych, shoegaze, post-rock, heavy riffing, garage stylization and beyond and mashing it all together into songs that are neither pretentious nor overly wrought. A cut like “Hair Brained” howls  and shuffles with should-get-TeePeeRecords‘-attention abandon, while “Open Road” sets a foundational hook early and the later “Psychic Lords” drifts languidly into a vision of heavy indie/neopsych to lead into charged finale “God is Dead.”

That song, or rather a shorter, four-piece version of it, opened Lazy Daze, and opener “Trip” was unveiled earlier this year with a prior album update, so not all of Seismic Vibes will be unfamiliar to those who’ve been keeping up, but the 34-minute run Sun Voyager bring to bear feels in its initial impressions like it’s been worth the wait, and I couldn’t be more thrilled to host the preorder and tour-date announcement below, as well as the video for the uptempo “Caves of Steel,” which boasts one of the record’s catchiest choruses. You’re going to want to watch it more than once, so be ready to commit more than the actual three and a half minutes of the song itself. That’s really just the beginning of it.

All info follows the clip on the player below, courtesy of the PR wire.

Please enjoy:

Sun Voyager, “Caves of Steel” official video premiere

Sun Voyager Premiere “Caves of Steel”; Seismic Vibes Available to Preorder

Hudson Valley natives Sun Voyager are thrilled to premiere the video for their new single, “Caves of Steel,” off the debut album Seismic Vibes coming out April 20th on King Pizza Records.

This eight-song journey is Sun Voyager’s first true long player and it’s a planet-shattering thunder mountain possibly too nasty for your turntable. It was recorded by Paul Ritchie in Neptune, NJ, produced by Sun Voyager, Paul Ritchie, and keyboardist Evan Heinze, mastered by Alan Douches at West West Side Music in New Windsor, NY, and album art was designed by Boston’s TJ Freda.

Seismic Vibes is available for preorder today on vinyl with exclusive options limited to 100 White, 100 Gold, as well as Interstellar Black.

Tracklist:
1. Trip
2. Open Road
3. Caves of Steel
4. Stellar Winds
5. Hair Brained
6. Too Much
7. Psychic Lords
8. God is Dead

The name “Caves of Steel” is taken from an Isaac Asimov novel about robots living among us in society and the music video was directed by Danghul Bangyana filmed mostly at Tweed Mountain in Nyack, NY.

Catch Sun Voyager on tour this month:
12/7 – Knoxville, TN – The Pilot Light
12/8 – Boone, NC – Black Cat Burrito
12/9 – Richmond, VA – Lucy Lane
12/10 – Montclair, NJ – The Meatlocker
12/11 – Saratoga Springs, NY – One Caroline
12/12 – Allston, MA – Great Scott
12/13 – Brooklyn, NY – Zone One at Elsewhere*
* – w/ Elephant Stone

Sun Voyager is:
Carlos Francisco
Stefan Mersch
Kyle Beach

Preorder link: http://kingpizzarecords.storenvy.com/products/22483149-sun-voyager-seismic-vibes-lp

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