Weird Owl is a band with its feet swamped in the days of yore. With an inspiration focused in revisiting the psychedelic trials of the past, they’ve now branched out to a heavy southern rock sound that weaves its way around 15 songs that lyrically work with anything and everything involving the outdoors, brotherhood and animals. Recorded upstate, the album reflects the environment surrounding it. Plodding, heavy guitars make their way into acoustic ballads, and together with stomping drums and pagan keyboards they get buried in a thick psychedelic fog that has the effect of eradicating the listener from their actual location. It’s a trip! See Weird Owl live at Union Pool on July 14. – Simon Heggie
