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Approved: Thus Owls

By | Published on Monday 26 October 2015

Thus Owls

Erika and Simon Angell originally met when touring with Loney Dear and Patrick Wolf respectively. Initially working Thus Owls around their touring schedules, they’ve released three albums since 2010. Over that time their sound has become ever more focussed, with last year’s ‘Turning Rocks’ the most consistent, as if each record had been leading you deeper into a world they were creating.

Their new EP, ‘Black Matter’, is due out through Secret City Records on 6 Nov, with a couple of tracks from it already eked out in recent weeks. The first track released, ‘Turn Up The Volumes’, is slow and sparse, its deliberate pace teasing you with what’s coming next.

The title track, meanwhile, was released last week and is a similarly self-contained mini-drama, though it ups the ante considerably, with ominous guitar lines and stabs of vintage synths providing twists and turns for Erika’s vocals to bounce off.

The duo will play three dates in the UK next month, Oxford’s Academy 2 on 10 Nov, the Islington Assembly Hall in London on 11 Nov, and finally Gorilla in Manchester on 12 Nov.

Listen to ‘Black Matter’ here:



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