Samoa Highway

VINYL FORMAT. Limited to 500 copies; comes with a digital download! Second full length of heavy-lidded psychedelia, following releases on Root Strata and Blackest Rainbow. A swarm of drone guitars announces the opening of the record on "Millions," with a shoegaze wash collapsing into rarified tone purity and bulging through a metallic buzz. Field recordings of airplane take-off and firework explosions punctuate the undulating bleary smear of the Pyle brothers' guitars. The result is one of levitation, even as they seem to be plugging their guitars and electronics directly into the moss, soil, amd mycelia of the Humboldt forest. Echo-soaked flutes, maudlin strings, scabrous noises unearthed from the bottom of the Pacific, and cinematic arcs of guitar shimmer complete the beautiful and haunted miasma of Samoa Highway that falls somewhere between Taj Mahal Travellers, Organum, and The Caretaker. Brian Pyle is founder of Starving Weirdos and records as Ensemble Economique.