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TK: What did the writing process look like for this one? Sonically and thematically there seems to be some overlap to your older work, but describe how you put this LP together compared to previous releases? Jon Pritchard: Having two producers in the studio - they kind of played off each other and got excited about different things. And he’s mastered a lot of our favorite albums. TK: Who did you work with when you recorded and produced Cabin Fever Dreams?ĬM: We went to Drowning Fish Studio and worked with Davis Shubs and David Skovron, they’re a great two-man team for mixing, engineering, and producing. If we came out with a kind of poppy garage rock song and then if we came out with a heavy stoner song, I don’t think it would seem out of place for us. But I think we leave ourselves with a lot of room to explore genres too. And it seems like that’s where I’d say the general ethos of the band is - exploring themes of kind of going crazy. I don’t think that was intentional, but even in our first EP, Hot Milk, and the songs “Toes” and “Floater,” it’s there. Now I’d say we’re like an anxious surf rock sound, you can hear that in the songs.Ĭeallaigh Manaaki: A lot of the themes in our songs are kind of about being unhinged or becoming unhinged. Greg Geiger: We used to go with “sludge pop” as a genre, we kind of made that up. The Key: Give me the elevator pitch of who Slomo Sapiens is. Is this going to be the soundtrack to our isolation and further pull us into a state of unknown, or will it serve as a beacon of hope and remind us that an escape from seemingly unshakeable cabin fever is still possible? Below, read our conversation about the record, which took place last month at Kurant Brewery. Playing on themes of becoming “unhinged” are now directly paralleled to the state of our own unique panics. As we face a shut-in and deal with our own individual senses of cabin fever in light of the COVID-19 crisis, this album seems to hit listeners with an even more specific sense of relevancy than Slomo Sapiens might have intended. They definitely didn’t realize it at the time they were writing, but this album comes to us during a moment of global uncertainty. Though the instrumentation and lyricism is based in this realm of “sludge and grunge” and psychedelia, the deeper themes of loneliness and mental illness are taken seriously, but presented in a disguised and digestible way. The concept story follows the process of what it means to become truly “unhinged,” and delves into the band members’ personal stories of isolation and self-discovery. Founding members Jon Pritchard, Ceallaigh Manaaki, and Greg Geiger spent the last year recording their latest LP, Cabin Fever Dreams.Ī psychedelic concept album that follows both a literal and figurative exploration of cabin fever and fever dreams, this release exists in a space somewhere between fantasy and reality. Slomo Sapiens is a psychedelic “sludge rock” project that emerged through collaboration between members of Manaaki, Dawn Drapes, and Lady HD.