In early 2020, we were in the process of mixing a follow-up album to our 2019 release Mercury. The bulk of this new album was recorded over two WOW! Recording Studio pop-up sessions at the Oddfellows Temple in St. Catharines during the summer of 2019. The first session was aimed at capturing songs from our previous live set, and the second session saw us take an improvised approach. We were in the process of working through the live bed tracks from those sessions and layering in additional sounds from various artists in our musical community when COVID-19 hit. As was the case for most artists, across many disciplines, our project ground to a halt.
About five months later, after a lot of idle time and a few outdoor jams in a good friend’s backyard outside the city, WOW! Recording Studio was again set up at The Oddfellows Temple. With no new material prepared but an intractable desire to create again, we kept the lineup pared down, for obvious reasons, to just five of us (3 guitars, bass and drums) and decided to take a purely improvisational approach to the session. After sifting through those recordings, we eventually chiselled out 9 tracks that would become Slant of Light and The Destroyer. We will be releasing these songs digitally on our Bandcamp page, with the hopes of releasing them as a double album in the future.
These two parts comprise some of our favourite work to date. We hope it finds its way to you.
Stay tuned...