Holy Wave - Freaks of Nurture - Blue - VINYL LP

Suicide Squeeze is thrilled to deliver a reissue of Interloper, the 2020 albumfrom Holy Wave. Interloper sees Holy Wave adding new layers to their rich andmesmerizing songwriting style. Written about the duality between life at homeand life on the road, it sees the band expanding on it's most esoteric andthought-provoking themes. InchI'm Not Living in the Past AnymoreInch is a mantraabout breaking the cycle of the mundane, and InchEscapismInch is a dream-likemeditation. InchInterloperInch serves as the centerpiece for this self-expanding record,asking, what happens when the world beneath your feet changes so much thatyou feel like a stranger in your own shoes? The band turns inward to blissed-outmoments on album opener InchSchmetterling,Inch the saccharine haze of InchR&B,Inch andthe freak-out catharsis of live favorite InchBuddhist Pete.Inch With Interloper HolyWave weaves together a contemplative tapestry that can serve as a road mapfor the diffident, a soundtrack to self-realization, or simply an invitation toescape. Album Tracks 1. Schmetterling 2. R&B 3. Interloper 4. Maybe Then I Can Cry 5. Escapism 6. I'm Not Living in the Past Anymore 7. No Love 8. Hell Bastards 9. Buddhist Pete 10. Redhead

Working alongside experimental duo Lorelle Meets the Obsolete at their studio El Derrumbe inEnsenada, Mexico, the sessions folded community into the album, though it's emotional core hadalready formed over months of pre-production. Joo Joo Ashworth, mixing engineer and longtimefriend, also provided a pivotal presence helping crystallize the album's rhythmic language andsubtly expanding the band's sound. The songs began reflecting conversations about fatherhood andpartnership, breakups and estrangement, the queasy acceleration of AI, and what it means toremain present and principled while the world lurches unpredictably forward. This tension is not announced but absorbed into the music. Holy Wave stretches their familiar senseof woozy atmosphere into something leaner and more direct. There are more loops and sampleswoven throughout than before, grooves that feel constructed, cyclical, hypnotic. Some tracks drifttoward dub's elastic spaciousness; others pulse with cinematic downtempo gravity. There is a freshsense of momentum throughout the record, rhythms that pull forward, dream-saturated textures,sheets of fuzz, and softly suspended vocals. Inchdewey's dirgeInch unfolds patiently hazy guitars bloom, a softened motorik pulse moving steadilybeneath. The vocals remain submerged, widening rather than exploding. It feels expansive andreflective, a comedown hymn that trades drama for immersion. Inchi'm DADA,Inch by contrast, locks into alean, circular groove. A tight drum figure, rubbery bassline, and clipped guitar phrase repeat untilthey begin to feel animate. Lyrically, the song circles the complicated devotion of fatherhood, writtenin a brief pocket of rare solitude for a parent Always loving (Try to do what's right) / Alwayslearning (There's never enough time). Inchs33. u. in/HALInch plays like a transmission caught midair, faintlymechanical, immersive without ever

Five of Cups opens with the title track, establishing the album's auditory and thematic modus operandi from the get-go. Holy Wave's lysergic textural palette is immediately apparent in the song's woozy synth lead and anti-gravity guitar jangle, but the atypical chord progressions and vocal melody steers the music away from anodyne escapism into a pensive grappling between self-determination and defeatism. Holy Wave continue to ride the wistful and phantasmic train on InchBog Song,Inch where the members vacillate between swells of austere minor chords and layered electric orchestration. From there, the previously released digital single InchChaparralInch plays with the band's own sense of nostalgia, weaving references of their El Paso past into a tapestry of transcendental triumph. Like so much classic album-oriented rock music, the real magic begins to unfold in the latter half of Five of Cups. On InchThe Darkest Timeline,Inch Holy Wave recruits their friends Lorena Quintanilla and Alberto Gonzalez from the Baja California, Mexico psych duo Lorelle Meets the Obsolete to add additional ethereal layers to their intoxicating after-midnight grooves. InchNothing in the DarkInch functions on a similar principle, using a steady propulsive drum pattern as the bedrock to tape-warbled synths, arpeggiated guitar chords, jet streams of fuzz, and serene vocals. Five of Cups' ruminations on combating defeat and disappointment are directly confronted on album closer InchHappier.Inch Once again straddling the melodic line between melancholy and breezy sophistication, Holy Wave examines the synthetic construct of happiness in our modern age and how so often the attainment of comfort lacks any true sense of joy. Yet this isn't some nihilistic dirge. Rather, it translates as a buoyant reminder that the bandwidth of human experience inherently requires peaks and valleys, and that euphor