Very interested to hear what Orange County, NY, heavy psych rockers Sun Voyager come up with for their debut long-player. Their 2013 demo, Mecca (review here), had a loose, laid back groove that neither came at the expense of songwriting nor felt like a put-on, so I’m eager to see where they take their sound with more room to flesh out ideas and maybe mix in some variety of atmosphere, effects experimentation, etc. The album, as yet untitled, was originally slated for a summer release on King Pizza Records vinyl, but that’s been pushed back to the fall.

In other news from the upstarts, they’ve parted ways with one of their guitarists and will proceed into the recording process as a full-length. They also sent word of upcoming shows around the New York area and more along via the PR wire.

Check it out:

Sun Voyager Summer Update

We hope your summer has been grooving smooth. Thanks for all the support over the last year and a half! It’s been a lot of fun and we’ve got some exciting things on the way that we wanted to share with you.

First a list of upcoming shows:

July 24 w/ Greasy Hearts, Big Huge & Jacques le Coque – Brooklyn – Silent Barn
July 25 w/ Ma, Oneironaught, & Sex Dream – Brooklyn, NY – Big Irv’s Gallery
August 1 w/ It’s Not Night: It’s Space – New Paltz, NY – Snug Harbor
August 9 w/ Julian Fulton, Francie Moon, & more – Rahway, NJ – The Rail House
August 15 w/ SULTAN BATHERY – Brooklyn, NY – Don Pedro’s
September 11 w/ The End Men – Albany, NY – The Low Beat

Next (we’ll give you the bad news first), we’re not sure if all of you know this but Steve is no longer with the band. We wish him all the best but will be continuing as a three-piece. Don’t worry though. We’ve been rocking just as hard without him.

NOW THE GOOD/GREAT NEWS…. We’re wrapping up in the studio this weekend and are almost ready to give you some new music!!! King Pizza Records will be putting out our first full-length on 12″ VINYL and we’re super excited to part of such an awesome label that wants to do this for us. It will be 8 songs in length and should be out this fall. We put a rough version of one of the songs up on bandcamp and might have something else for you very soon…

Merch (we have new t-shirts): http://sunvoyager.bigcartel.com
Updates via social here: http://www.facebook.com/sunvoyagerband
http://sun-voyager.bandcamp.com/

Sun Voyager, “Gypsy Hill (Demo)”

Four-piece groove rollers Sun Voyager have a new track called “Gypsy Hill” available now as a pay-what-you-will download. The Orange County, NY, psych-gazers who released their Mecca demo last fall (review here) will issue their first LP this summer on Brooklyn’s King Pizza Records, and the Dead Meadow-style dreamer-fuzz of “Gypsy Hill” follows suit stylistically from where Mecca left off, a subtle penchant for melody showing up in the chorus as in “Space Queen” their last time out.

The space-garage rock of Sun Voyager‘s “Oh, Sally” from their early-2013 demo, Cosmic Tides, is also included on a new King Pizza compilation called Music to Make Barbecues By, and the band features alongside a punkish host of bands from The Fucktons to The Measurements.

Sun Voyager shipped this down the PR wire:

New Song Premiere + T-Shirt Preorder!

First things first, we were featured on the most badass compilation. It was put together by King Pizza Records, features 16 songs by 16 awesome bands, it’s totally free, and it can be heard HERE. Trust us… You need to hear it.

Now some real exciting stuff coming at you from OUR WORLD.

We have a NEW SONG streaming on Bandcamp! It’s called Gypsy Hill and will be on our full length coming summer 2014 on King Pizza. Right now it’s a rough mix but we thought it was good enough to give you early.

ALSO… NEW SHIRTS available for PRE-ORDER.

THESE are on the way! LIMITED EDITION MECCA T-SHIRTS. They’ll be super comfortable and we’re only getting 100… so get them while they’re hot because they’ll be gone in no time.

More big things will be happening real soon. As always, we’ll let you know when they do. If you haven’t found us on the internet already… we’re on Spotify (follow us for first dibs on the full length), Facebook, and Twitter.

http://open.spotify.com/artist/2fttdCcRYj8Wrlg4pucIh9
http://kingpizzarecords.bandcamp.com/
http://sun-voyager.bandcamp.com
http://www.facebook.com/sunvoyagerband
http://www.twitter.com/sunvoyager_rock
http://sunvoyagerband.tumblr.com

Sun Voyager, “Gypsy Hill”