Austin heavy psychedelic and Americana purveyors LORD BUFFALO present an upbeat and compelling second track taken from their new album “Holus Bolus”, to be released on July 12th through Blues Funeral Recordings. Stream “I Wait On The Door Slab” on all digital services now.
Lord Buffalo is heavy in the way that ghosts are heavy… in the way that billowing dust is heavy. That is to say, the Austin, TX Psych-Americana band’s music impacts hard, though it seems impossible to touch. Their sound flows through us, it doesn’t invite the Pavlovian response of typical heavy rock music.
Perhaps it’s fitting that their new album “Holus Bolus” takes its name from an antiquated term meaning “all at once.” It materializes instantly from the first opening notes, a grey haze drawing listeners in with deft juxtapositions of droning violin, guitars, drums and vocals.
Stream Lord Buffalo’s new single “I Wait On The Door Slab”
+ watch their latest video for the title track “Holus Bolus“
While the quartet wades into the same murky waters as dark emotive brethren Wovenhand, All Them Witches, Chelsea Wolfe, Emma Ruth Rundle, Earth, Echo & The Bunnymen, Nick Cave, the creative interplay of Middle Eastern influences and Western folk Americana takes the record in its own enveloping, meditative direction. Embarking on a sleep-deprived road trance through High Plains iconography, “Holus Bolus” is bleak yet hopeful, a mix that is by now Lord Buffalo’s established custom blend.
Frontman Daniel Pruitt comments on how he connected to Walt Whitman’s poem “Song of Myself, 51” when writing “I Wait On The Door Slab”: “His vision of time, the overlapping folds of past, present, and future, is expansive; he sees through the cycle and demands the “listener up there” be honest with him. He’s fiercely in the present while simultaneously feeling the pull of the past and future. The song we wrote explores time in a similar vein, but it is further complicated by the electric gap between body and mind. There’s a sense of exhaustion, of feeling like you might not get another good piece out, but it’s mixed in with the other side of your mind that finds relief in the work. This is where the connection to “Song of Myself, 51” first occurred to me. Whitman’s verse begins, “The past and present wilt—I have fill’d them, emptied them. / And proceed to fill my next fold of the future.” The speaker seems spent by the pouring out and yet confident in the filling back up. I think there’s reassurance in his words for anyone who chooses to make a life in creative work.”
“Holus Bolus” was recorded by Danny Reisch and Max Lorenzen at Good Danny’s in Lockhart, TX, mixed by Danny Reisch and mastered by Max Lorenzen. It will be available in vinyl, CD and digital format on July 12th, with preorders available now through Blues Funeral Recordings.
LORD BUFFALO “Holus Bolus”
Out July 12th on Blues Funeral Recordings (LP/CD/digital)
Preorder on Bandcamp, Bluesfuneral.com and SPKR shop
