Sisters of Your Sunshine Vapor :: Spectra Spirit

If you need more than National Metal Day to feel thankful for this November, Sisters of Your Sunshine Vapor are the ticket with Spectra Spirit, dropping November 11. Packing the swagger and menace introduced on their debut s/t, Spectra Spirit ups the ante and delivers. SOYSV put down some serious foundation work on their first and Spectra Spirit not only picks up where that one left off, but builds on it, their sound pumped up tight like a balloon (with sunshine and vapor among other things). Admittedly shooting for a more continuous flow than individual songs with hard borders, Spectra Spirit wafts in and out of itself. That continuity is reflected in the sequencing, a spacious production that showcases their loose frayed playing, and of course the songwriting. Woven straight through the whole affair is their trademark slow boil uneasiness…like emotions running, and getting, high under the skin; it’s about desire, of many kinds, more than a knee-jerk cock-rock lust (here is where I suppose I should make a comment about the great use of their organ on Spirit). Twitching under the skin is a vibe that it all might just fall apart; a vibe that doesn’t come to fruition. SOYSV have a firm grip on where they are going and where they want to go. Where that is exactly is part of the appeal, part of what you can’t get your hands on. Like their namesake, and by default the title of the record, they exist between two states, the solid and the … not solid…It’s like trying to grab smoke, a primal exhaust from ’a hookah and bonfires.‘ Go ahead, inhale. Inhale deeply. And give thanks this November that the turkey is in the dining room, and not on your turntable.

Spectra Spirit is out on New Fortune Records.

Black Mind :: Sisters of Your Sunshine Vapor :: Spectra Spirit (2011, New Fortune Records)