Sunwatchers

World | Jazz | Punk


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This instrumental combo from Brooklyn/Queens bombards audiences with absorbing, oblique breaths. Their sparse and sophisticated riffs lie at the chaotic intersection of punk, jazz, and psych. Their kinetic, dreamlike pieces are in constant metamorphosis, opening the cosmic gates, both inward and outward. Their first album, Sunwatchers, was released on the formidable Castle Face label by John Dwyer of Thee Oh Sees, while their latest opus, “II” (Trouble In Mind Records), has critics raving.

CONTACT:
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PHIL@MOTHLAND.COM
CAN/US:
JULIANA@MOTHLAND.COM

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These songs map out great pyramids and deep buried labyrinths. They are massive. They are leviathans
— John Dwyer, Thee Oh Sees/Castle Face Records
Sunwatchers’ rippling music works, then, much like American gospel or hardcore: It fights the power by flexing solidarity and responds loudly and triumphantly to existential terror. Oh Yeah? is vivid and boisterous.
— Pitchfork
Remember that “mindblowing psychedelia from Thailand” YouTube video from five years ago, with the pan-generational band (Khun Narin), a hodgepodge of percussion, and a dude wailing on an electric, double-necked stringed instrument called a phin? It’s still a trip to watch. Now imagine those droning Thai folk melodies getting blasted through a motorik rhythm section and blown out by a saxophone — that’s the cosmic modus operandi of Sunwatchers.
— NPR
The music the Brooklyn quartet offers on II, its second LP, finds common ground in the twin squalls of psychedelic rock and free jazz, divergent genres that share a propensity for cathartic noise. More importantly, both are attuned to music’s ceremonial power, unabashedly using sound to seek a higher state, whether you’re communing with God or the only wafer on your tongue is soaked in lysergic acid.
— SPIN

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OPENING ACTS:

MDOU MOCTAR, GUERILLA TOSS, MEGA BOG
THE MESSTHETICS (ex-Fugazi), EUGENE CHADBOURNE,