Synchromysticism (Original Release)

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Chant This too is Yowie Favorite track: Ineffable Dolphin Communion.

abbi this album quells my anxiety! Favorite track: Absurdly Ineffective Barricade.

horriblehodag How to simulate the feeling of eating insects when you're out of insects to eat. A delight. Favorite track: The Fourth Wall Will Not Protect You.

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	1.	Ineffable Dolphin Communion 06:23
	2.	Mysterium Tremendum 05:58
	3.	Absurdly Ineffective Barricade 05:39
	4.	The Fourth Wall Will Not Protect You 07:00
	5.	The Reason Your House Is Haunted Can Be Found On This Microfiche 08:12

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Since 2000, St. Louis’ YOWIE has been perfecting a unique form of progressive rock that incorporates complex polyrhythms and guitar dissonance.

Operating within its own unique idiom, YOWIE rejects rock music’s typical foundation of common time signature and standard melodic structures. For their 3rd album, “Synchromysticism,” the band has used these tools, as well as the drummer’s (a clinical psychologist) understanding of signal detection theory and delusional mood to convey complex phenomenological concepts in a highly visceral form. This album, the first with guitarist Christopher Trull (formerly of Grand Ulena) marks a new level of ambition in terms of conceptual complexity, synthesizing opposing compositional approaches into a distinctive style that simultaneously elicits feelings of euphoria, perplexity, dread... and an inexorable urge to dance.

This is post-apocalyptic dance music for the coming age.

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released April 21, 2017

Christopher Trull : guitar
Jeremiah Wonsewitz : guitar
Defenestrator : drums

Recorded by Jason McEntire at Sawhorse Studios

Post-Production Work by Tazu Marshall
Mixed by Scott Evans at Antisleep Audio
Mastered by Carl Saff

Cover art by Arnulf Rödler.

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Yowie plays a dense foreign language through two guitars which communicate in an angry six string banter over strictly scattered drums. This power trio speaks in alien code that's never fully deciphered. Daniel Kennedy (Cleric) and Jack Tickner (Basil's Kite) now join founding member Defenestrator on the band's 4th album, which is currently mixing. ... more

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