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King Howl - Homecoming

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Sean Malkasian This is a great example of how to do Blues rock with soul and sincerity. A new take on a classic genre. Oozes idiosyncrasy! Its as though you are hearing the genre for the first time! Favorite track: The Rooster.

Charlie Hodgson There's some pretty good tracks on this album but when I hear Gimmie Shelter it's always gonna be my favourite. From the Cradle and Motorsound were my other favourite tracks. An awesome stoner blues record. Favorite track: Gimme Shelter.

dcdirkzwager What an awesome record. pretty diverse songwriting with a focus on bluesy stoner. Tempted reminds me of Five Horse Johnson on speed, which is so much cooler than I thought it would be Favorite track: Tempted.

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1.	The Rooster 02:48	buy track
2.	From The Cradle 02:28	buy track
3.	The Train 02:51	buy track
4.	John Henry Days 04:25	buy track
5.	Motorsound 03:11	buy track
6.	Slowly Coming Down 04:16	buy track
7.	Tempted 02:49	buy track
8.	Jupiter 03:34	buy track
9.	The Great Blue Heron 04:03	buy track
10.	Gimme Shelter 04:38	buy track
11.	Home 05:42	buy track

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King Howl's new album, titled "Homecoming" will be released by Electric Valley Records on June 9, 2023. The work represents a new chapter in the band's stylistic universe, spurring King Howl's trademark sound while mixing it with new compositional and sound influences. A mix of blues, stoner, psychedelia, and classic rock that paints the soundscape of an on-the-road story set in 1960s America, a narrative plot that permeates the entire work, accompanied by a constant sonic evolution, always on the road. Thus, King Howl returns to the theme of travel, the band's favorite concept from the beginning. In this story, a young protagonist escapes from a rural setting witnessed by the blues sounds of opener "The Rooster" and rock'n'roll anthem "From the Cradle," followed by the beginning of the journey on the Kyussian railroad of "The Train." This leads to the nineties echoed Spoken-word of "John Henry Days" to the classic rock sounds of "Motorsound," a true ode to the big truck engine's vibrations. Consequently, the sonic journey flows into the oblivion of "Slowly Coming Down." Here, doom and psychedelia carry a dark foreboding. "Tempted," on the other hand, is a successful mix of country blues and stoner rock, an influence more and more present in the desertic "Jupiter," a track inspired by one of the characters in writer James Anderson's novel "The Never-Open Desert Diner." At the album's heart, the theme of travel and change symbolizes the animal world with the powerful "The Great Blue Heron." This song is marked by the sound of the Hammond organ, which makes the piece even more granitic.
"Homecoming" then pays homage to the great Rolling Stones with the sixties classic "Gimme Shelter." Then it concludes this incredible journey with "Home," an angry but hopeful homecoming. An epic in music, a round trip of growth and change, of damnation, redemption, and rebirth. The album was recorded in Sardinia by Roberto Macis and Willy Cuccu and mixed by Nene Baratto and Richard Behrens at Big Snuff Studio in Berlin, a key production hub for international heavy Psych (Kadavar, Samsara Blues Experiment, Elder, Wucan). A sound production focused on an "organic" analog sound, thanks to the use of vintage gear and a reel-to-reel master made by Nene Baratto at the Berlin-based Morphine Raum Studio.

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released June 9, 2023

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