As we’re away for a few days we have scheduled a few posts to highlight some excellent stuff that has come our way, but which we haven’t had the time to do justice too in words!

Thus Owls are a transatlantic band comprised of husband and wife duo Erika and Simon Angell. Their new record is both a scrapbook of memories and oral transmissions from an island in Sweden, and a sonic experiment in tone and colour recorded in Montreal.

Out on 7th April, Turning Rocks is lyrically inspired by Erika’s childhood home: a small house in her family for generations, in a tiny village on Orust—an island in Sweden just north of Gothenburg. The process began with true stories that Erika’s grandmother told her about people and events from her own youth with each song on the record drawing inspiration from a different human life somehow connected to the place.

As Long As We Try A Little is the first track unveiled from the record – a sparse, otherwordly piano-led affair pitched somewhere between Lana Del Rey and Bat For Lashes, which gradually spools out into a cymbal-crashing climax.

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