{"id":32469,"date":"2019-10-19T12:15:56","date_gmt":"2019-10-19T16:15:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cultureaddicts.com\/?p=32469"},"modified":"2019-10-12T08:01:50","modified_gmt":"2019-10-12T12:01:50","slug":"sondra-sun-odeon-announces-new-album-desyre-shares-track-roses-in-the-snow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cultureaddicts.com\/?p=32469","title":{"rendered":"Sondra Sun-Odeon announces new album \u2018Desyre\u2019 + shares track \u2018Roses In The Snow\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Los Angeles\/Brooklyn based vocalist, composer, and recording artist\u00a0Sondra Sun-Odeon has announced that her sophomore album, \u2018Desyre,\u2019 will be released on November 22 via\u00a0Graveface Records (<a href=\"https:\/\/t.e2ma.net\/click\/329ivc\/3m9fkn\/zz41qh\">pre-order<\/a>)<strong>.<\/strong>\u00a0Sun-Odeon is known for her songs of ethereal melancholia and otherworldliness.\u00a0\u2018Desyre\u2019 picks up the doomy vibe her debut \u2018\u00c6etherea\u2018 left us with, weaving it into a heavy, transcendent soundtrack of personal devastation and insight.  Along with the announcement of the forthcoming LP, Sun-Odeon has also shared the album&#8217;s first single <em>Roses In The Snow<\/em>. Listen to the track via Soundcloud below. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/685846240&amp;color=%23ff5500&amp;auto_play=false&amp;hide_related=false&amp;show_comments=true&amp;show_user=true&amp;show_reposts=false&amp;show_teaser=true\"><\/iframe><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The sound is heavier with\u00a0Thor Harris of SWANS\u00a0providing drums and percussion, and the band bigger; instead of her usual &#8212; playing layers upon layers of guitar herself &#8212; Sun-Odeon this time invited J.R. Bohannon (Ancient Ocean) to contribute everything from electric riffs to sublime fingerstyle acoustic, to spectral pedal steel playing; Anthony Piromalli brought additional doom metal and ambient soundscapes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>With this core band, Sun-Odeon recruited\u00a0Alex DeGroot (Zola Jesus)\u00a0as engineer and co-producer, and began recording the album winter of 2018 at Seahorse Sound studios in downtown Los Angeles. Highlights of the sessions included\u00a0Mary Lattimore\u00a0contributing harp on several tracks and recording the epic, almost nine-minute long <em>Drowning Man: An Invocation for the Demise of Patriarchy<\/em>. The track showcases Cordey Lopez\u00a0and\u00a0Matthew Clough-Hunter\u00a0on gamelan,\u00a0Lia Simone Braswell (A Place to Bury Strangers)\u00a0reciting Sun-Odeon\u2019s reimagined 70\u2019s feminist manifesto, Bohannon\u2019s throat singing, a women\u2019s chorus, and excerpts from an improvised half hour-long wall of noise guitar drone that Sun-Odeon, DeGroot, Piromalli, and Bohannon unleashed in studio.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sun-Odeon had begun recording many of the songs on\u00a0\u2018<em>Desyre<\/em>\u2019 in Brooklyn in 2013 but abandoned the effort after the session faltered along with her mental health, during a time she describes as \u201c<em>the absolute lowest point in my life.\u201d<\/em> Shortly after, she left for California to focus on healing from the traumatic whiplash of a poisoned relationship and depression. Many of the songs on Desyre were written during the turmoil of that relationship; it would take a few years of safe distance from its trauma for her to revisit the songs. When Sun-Odeon finally did revisit them, she found them calling out, wanting to be heard. She found the process of completing the recordings, therapeutic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The resulting album springs forth from a place of defiant persistence. There is the outrage and vision of <em>Drowning Man: An Invocation for the Demise of Patriarchy<\/em>, written during the Kavanaugh hearings in reflection of the #MeToo movement\u00a0 &#8212; it imagines a world where a collective female rage decimates the remnants of patriarchy allowing the emergence of a new utopia. \u2018Desyre\u2019 exalts sexual pleasure as a pathway to enlightenment and God-dess.\u00a0 <em>Roses in the Snow<\/em> and <em>Moved by Joy<\/em> reflect on the heartache and drama of difficult choices. <em>Oaks<\/em> is a song originally written with Silver Summit (Sun-Odeon\u2019s dark psych-folk band of the freak folk era) concerning death and transfiguration. <em>Hit<\/em> is a cathartic and defiant \u201c<em>I\u2019m still here and I give no fucks<\/em>\u201d statement in song of surviving romantic delusions and devastation.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>All of Sun-Odeon\u2019s songs grow from a place of continued appreciation for open-tunings, vintage tape echoes, experimentation and exploration of real instrument sounds for the sake of themselves. Her hard-to-categorize sound continues to mix elements of post rock, experimental noise, etheric shoegaze, and Sabbath-y moments alongside a voice that holds more conviction and strength&#8211;there is outrage, there is grace and defiance; there is broken vulnerability, resilience, and a knowing wisdom from years spent climbing out of the nadir from which these songs germinated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"560\" height=\"560\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/cultureaddicts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/8168D6F3-72CB-4104-A3B8-AE922DFB805A.jpeg?resize=560%2C560\" alt=\"Desyre album cover artwork\" class=\"wp-image-32471\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/cultureaddicts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/8168D6F3-72CB-4104-A3B8-AE922DFB805A.jpeg?w=560&amp;ssl=1 560w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/cultureaddicts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/8168D6F3-72CB-4104-A3B8-AE922DFB805A.jpeg?resize=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/cultureaddicts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/8168D6F3-72CB-4104-A3B8-AE922DFB805A.jpeg?resize=300%2C300&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/cultureaddicts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/8168D6F3-72CB-4104-A3B8-AE922DFB805A.jpeg?resize=144%2C144&amp;ssl=1 144w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 560px) 100vw, 560px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>\u2018Desyre\u2019 tracklist<\/strong> <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>1. Vision <br>2. Desyre <br>3. Roses In The Snow <br>4. Oaks <br>5. Drowning Man: An Invocation for the Demise of Patriarchy <br>6. Hit <br>7. 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