Florida-based Psych-Space rockers, Sons Of Hippies,
take flight on the backs of mythical, winged beasts to bring you
Griffons At The Gates Of Heaven, the band’s newest and most
ambitious recording to date, available July 16 on Cleopatra Records.
Mixed by legendary Seattle producer Jack Endino (Nirvana, L7) and
mastered at Abbey Road Studios, the album fearlessly synthesizes four
decades of rock with heavily echoed, neo-Surf guitar, sinister
mellotron and crunching power chords. “Rose,” the album’s
second single, has achieved extensive support at radio, debuting on
KROQ’s “Rodney On The ROQ” program earlier this month as well
as landing on CMJ’s Top 200 chart. Simultaneously, the band has
been touring across the eastern states, including several special
engagements with UK prog legends Nektar.
Conceived
by
the spiritual union of guitarist/vocalist Katherine Kelly and
drummer Jonas Canales amidst the good vibes of the Bonnaroo Music
Festival, Sons Of Hippies began their journey in 2008, adding bassist
David Daly to the fold in 2011. Together the trio conquered the
Florida music scene, earning accolades from audiences and critics alike
including honors from their local alternative weekly Creative
Loafing. True to their name, the band struggles to maintain the
hopeful humanism of their ‘60s forebears while living in today’s
alienating post-modern society. “I have always been drawn to ideas
of perception versus reality,” says Katherine, “Humans live to tell
stories to each other. But what happens in translation is often such
a mutation of the truth that we become ideas of ourselves instead of
just ourselves. I want our music to remind people to come back to
themselves.”
But
the band isn’t all ponderous philosophy - the first official video
promoting Griffons, “Spaceship Ride,” is a musical peyote
trip back to child-like innocence, while the video for “Rose”
cheekily sends-up ‘70s exploitation flicks with the band themselves
cast as the surprised victims of 3 blood-lusty females. As UK
magazine Vive Le Rock enthused in their review of Griffons
“Psychedelia just got sexy.”
Griffons
At The Gates Of Heaven is available on CD, vinyl and cassette!
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