Sunglaciers Sharpen Their Psychedelic Edge with "Regular Nature" (Mothland)
Sunglaciers by Em Medland-Marchen
Two years after the release of the explosive Subterranea, Calgary post-punk quartet Sunglaciers have resurfaced with Regular Nature, out now via Mothland.
Spanning 15 tracks, this latest endeavour pulls from familiar motives to paint a truly vibrant picture. Sunglaciers have always stood on the edge of experimentation, anchored firmly in rock n’ roll while nodding to new wave, garage, and whatever else they please. But Regular Nature comes imbued with the conscious resolution to find something new between the folds.
Said the group of this dexterous new record:
“We want to make you dance. We want to make you think. We want to make you think while you’re dancing and dance while you’re busy thinking. This is an album for the body, brain and heart. It’s compassionate, frustrated, communal and dreadful. In a world of information overload, where everything comes at you at once, Regular Nature is trying to normalize the phenomenon. This is chaotic music for a chaotic world, a three-way conversation between outer self, the subconscious and the mad world.”
Regular Nature begins with “Fakes,” a compellingly frenzied track that reads like a hi-fi, edgier Devo. “All style, not a lot of substance / Shut out, shut out the noise” chants multi-instrumentalist Evan Resnik as he scorches through a doom spiral. “Right Time” puts a surfy foot forward, propelled by winding guitars and striking snares. But while the band is not afraid to reach an electric climax, best portrayed with the psychic anguish of “Kafka,” it is the wistful freefall of slow-burner “Rotten Teeth” that delivers true refreshment: “I still have dreams of love with no beginning and no end / How can that be if I am walking out the door again?”
Regular Nature is a psych-rock saga, supercharged with exhilarating instrumentation while boasting meditative subtleties. Fortified by its stylistic depth, the album tells an engrossing story of the turmoil that awaits us all.
Regular Nature
out March 29, 2024 via Mothland
1. Fakes
2. Right Time
3. Undermine
4. Cursed
5. Kafka
6. I Remember the Days
7. Interlude
8. Frog Mask
9. A.I.
10. Reef
11. Not Ready
12. Rotten Teeth
13. Gov Shut
14. One Time or Another
15. Waiting for Nothing
Written & performed by Sunglaciers (Evan Resnik, Mathieu Blanchard, Kyle Crough, and Nyssa Brown)
Select instrumentation by Chad VanGaalen, Daniel Monkman, Chris Dadge, Nate Waters, and Cassia Hardy
Recorded by Mathieu Blanchard & Evan Resnik
Additional recording by Chad VanGaalen
Produced by Sunglaciers
Mixing, additional production & digital mastering by Mark Lawson
Mastered for vinyl by Richard White
Artwork by Nyssa Brown & Evan Resnik
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Rebecca Judd is the features editor of Also Cool Mag.