Barn Owl drop by Levee Club to give us the latest demonstration of why all psych-rock bands from San Francisco are brilliant.
Thanks for this Thrill Jockey website:
Evan Caminiti (guitars, vocals) and Jon Porras (guitars, vocals, drums, harmonium) met in San Francisco in 2006 and immediately started playing music together. Over the next four years, the two gradually sculpted a vast collection of hazy desert sky meditations – ominous, barren expanses of music for desert walks at dusk, and dark, pastoral passages embellished with psychedelic and atmospheric wash. A mixture between devotional ragas and dusty stomp with atmosphere and production that references shoegaze and black metal influences.
Recent album Ancestral Star is particularly impressive. Sure, it’s doomy, atmospheric, slow stuff but for a psych-rock band that has received comparisons to psychedelic ber-Godband Sunn 0))) the record skips by quite nicely, never gets boring like some bands I could mention and leaves you wanting more…which is just what you want in a record.
They have a new EP Shadowland coming out soon which:
Shadowland was recorded by Phil Manley (Trans Am) in San Francisco. For the overall sound of the EP, the band focused on using monolithic stacks of tube amps and sent guitars and synthesizers alike through them and utilized intense amounts of stereo delay.
Their live shows are lovely affairs with visuals in the background to relax the eyes and massage the mind…delicious. Here they are, well, one of them you can see at least, live at the Supersonic Festival in Birmingham last autumn.
