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STRAY OWLS

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The owls are not what they seem.
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Like any fringe act worth following, Stray Owls shouldn't work. Matthew French and Scott Griffiths plug their acoustic/electrics into the type of pedalboards that usually fuel post-rock or doom-worthy riffs but instead create agitated, perpetually damaged fuzz-folk. Drummer and engineer Jerry Kee, who joined as a full member after 2017's A Series of Circles, knows which spaces to fill and which to leave. Indeed, Stray Owls strikes an almost paradoxical balance: warmth in the organic chop of acoustic guitars and consoling drive of Kee's drumming; anxiety in the gulf where a bass instrument would go, indicating the hollow heart each of us feels as we contemplate the cold truths of life — and the terror of its impermanence.

Appropriate to its title, second LP Stray Owls vs. Time and Space finds this Mebane trio with its toes in the North Carolina Piedmont clay, but its head way, way above the clouds. Intro "Miles" is as patient, immersive, and spacious as Spiritualized, but is immediately followed by the unassuming pop-craft of "Words." Griffiths' digitally mangled voice reads the Latin names of trees on half-delirious instrumental "Lower Case of the Mondays," while Cory Griffiths (she and Scott are married) plays clarinet on "Cory's Interlude" and sings harmony on "Dislocation." Kee is on the mic for the unassuming slacker shuffle of "Something Like Hope," while the unapologetically crunchy "Bipolaroid" finds Stray Owls kneeling at the crossroads/altar of math rock and Sabbath with French on vocal duties. The album sounds and feels like three people thriving in the same head space and is a natural progression and solid evolutionary leap for the band. Indeed, having fully welcomed and incorporated Kee as a full-time member for the past few years — Stray Owls takes an active role in its own evolution on Stray Owls vs. Time and Space.                                                                                                             
Again — the owls are not what they seem.                                               

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STRAY OWLS VS TIME AND SPACE
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  • PTLK FAMILY
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    • BOXING
    • CAMERON STENGER
    • COREY PALLON
    • CURTAINS
    • D-Town Brass
    • DE FONTAINE
    • ERIE CHOIR
    • ESTON & THE OUTS
    • THE EVIL TENORS
    • FELIX OBELIX
    • THE FLUTE FLIES
    • HARRISON FORD MUSTANG
    • HORIZONTAL HOLD
    • HUNDRED AIR
    • JOSHUA CARPENTER
    • JPHONO1
    • KIM WARE & THE GOOD GRACES
    • THE KNEADS
    • KNURR AND SPELL
    • LACY JAGS
    • LAND IS
    • LAKES&WOODS
    • LE WEEKEND
    • THE LIBRARY
    • MAGNOLIA COLLECTIVE
    • MATT SOUTHERN
    • THE MONOLOGUE BOMBS
    • NATHAN OLIVER
    • NOBODY'S ROBOT
    • NORTH ELEMENTARY
    • ORGANOS
    • PALING LIGHT
    • ROBES
    • ROGUE BAND OF YOUTH
    • SCHOONER
    • SCIVIC RIVERS
    • THE SECOND WIFE
    • SEE GULLS
    • SHELLES
    • SOME ARMY
    • STRAY OWLS
    • TACOMA PARK
    • TEARDROP CANYON
    • WICHITA FALLS
    • THE WIGG REPORT
    • WILD FUR
    • THE WYRMS
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