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Thus Owls and Coke Weed

Thus Owls are a Montreal-based band comprised of husband and wife duo Erika and Simon Angell. The band originated in Sweden as an outlet for Erika's songs, while she was making a name for herself as a prominent vocalist in the Gothenburg and Stockholm scenes. Simon and Erika enlisted local drummer Stef Schneider, and keyboard player Parker Shper, to round out the permanent lineup alongside Swedish bass player Martin Höper. Simon left Patrick Watson and Erika became a Canadian citizen. It was this core group that ultimately recorded Turning Rocks in Montreal in 2013, and who've begun to turn heads with their powerful live show.

The Mt. Desert Island recording sessions that form the core of Coke Weed's upcoming 3rd LP, 2013s Back To Soft, saw the psych rock quintet definitively moving past the vestiges of the folk rock sound that marked their earlier recordings, and toward a leaner electrified sound. It was a case of form following content as the band found their stride in the hypnotic grooves that would carry the lyrical themes of Back To Soft: rock music that holds a mirror to 2013 and refracts its moment through a stoned remembrance of American undergrounds past.