Cryogeyser have announced the release of their forthcoming self-titled record on Feb 14. The Los Angeles trio have spent quite some time on previous albums exploring the sensation of longing and a person’s resistance to pain, but on their new one, they offer insight into how you can process and move past that ache, how you can alter your emotional perceptions and acknowledge the value of embracing vulnerability while still holding fast to some deep well of internal fire.
“This album is about heat,” guitarist-singer Shawn Marom says. “Capturing ice and holding it forever—even as it melts—knowing you’re burning but staying in orbit.”
On their latest single, “Stargirl”, the band seek to define and transmute grief in all its forms. Aided by cascading waves of grungy distortion and Marom’s battle cry of a voice, the track careens from its opening ramble to the dizzying rock mutations at its close. Guitars wander and lacerate before imploding under the band’s watchful gaze. It all builds into an exhilarating catharsis, a release of energy and frustration and fear, a cacophony of emotional disentanglement fueled by a habit of fixating on what could have been.
“I wrote this song 3 weeks after the release of the last Cryogeyser record,” Marom explains. “It’s my most cherished song, everyone I’ve ever loved has had their hands on it; whether it was jamming in the room, writing the bass parts, recording it, tracking it, inspiring it, changing it, expanding it, or remembering it at shows. For me, ‘Stargirl’ is like time traveling–it has meant so many things to me, and I wonder what it will mean to all of you. At the foot of our next record, of songs from near and far that time traveled to get here, we’re (finally) releasing ‘Stargirl.’”
Watch the Lance Bangs-directed video for “Stargirl” below.
Cryogeyser’s upcoming self-titled album is out Feb 14. You can pre-order it here. You can follow the band on Facebook and Instagram.
