Hyloxolos - Hyloxolos

Hyloxolos is the expansive and surprising new psych-rock supergroup featuring Dave Harrington, (Darkside), Peter Matthew Bauer, (The Walkmen), the nearly mythical Dylan Carlson (Earth), avant-garde instrumentalist & drummer Dylan Fujioka (Meatbodies) and Otis Bauer (Trench) on bass.

This album, like the founding of the band itself, was birthed last year over an intense 48 hour period of writing and recording at 64sound in Los Angeles with engineer Tyler Karmen (Bat for Lashes, Devendra Banhart). The massive walls of sound, rolling swells and long, winding passages unfold deliberately, in heavy, kaleidoscopic waves. These six tracks are the sound of an inspired group of strangers cleaving something new out of the ether on arrival. The first notes of the record are the first notes played in the room, and the nearly 40 minutes that follow capture the adrenalized immediacy of those two days, which culminated in a packed and chaotic sold-out show at the East Hollywood nightclub, Gold Diggers, with some of the band having just met for the first time on entering the studio, days before,