Pre-order of Fractal - EP. You get 1 track now (streaming via the free Bandcamp app and also available as a high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more), plus the complete album the moment it’s released.
2021 – the Axis tilts again. Feedback loops, patterns begetting patterns... fracturing, splintering, diverging, convalescing….these are fractals on which we build. The lead track is also the molten core of the EP, a phase repeat/radical evolution of prior Axis: Sova mischiefs: “Fractal Ancestry” washed ashore on Early Surf five years ago, and has since been subjected to relentless live outings in the hands of Axii Kaiser, Freeze, and Sova. In naturally mutated form, it has become “Fractal USA”.
This sister sits with other misters recorded at various moments before/during/after the recent time blip - “Fractal USA” following the Shampoo You tour year; “Caramel” and “(Don’t Wanna Have That) Dream” secreted secretly, under masked-and-distanced lock-down; and “Dying To Meet You,” a long-form full band jam from the vault edited, spliced, and dubbed to meet this EP’s needs. The through-line of the batch is hypnosis: dialed-in, zoned-outery, from altered beast to blasted jam via dub-fried space lullabying in Denudes puree. With Sova smelting trademark molten guitar licks and fusing several of his most irresistibly delicate vocals to date to the finely-rendered compounds, the Fractal EP makes gains from losses, from the repetition, the patterns, the fractals. Evolution is inevitable, reinvention the key – unlock it in you with Axis: Sova’s "Fractal".
credits
releases May 7, 2021
Brett Sova: gtr, vox, organ, drums
Jeremy Freeze: bass, gtr, organ, drums, vox
Tim Kaiser: gtr, vox
Recorded and Mixed in Chicago by Brett Sova
Mastered by Cooper Crain
Cover art by Eric Vivian
Guitar tapestry woven together by analog drum machine synthesis. Well baked with all audio dietary needs in mind, explicitly made for recreational use.
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