Since 2000, St. Louis' YOWIE has been perfecting a unique form of progressive rock that incorporates complex polyrhythms and guitar dissonance. Operating within its own unique idiom, YOWIE rejects rock music's typical foundation of common time signature and standard melodic structures.
For their 3rd album, 'Synchromysticism,' the band has used these tools, as well as the drummer's (a clinical psychologist) understanding of signal detection theory and delusional mood to convey complex phenomenological concepts in a highly visceral form. This album, the first with guitarist Christopher Trull (formerly of Grand Ulena) marks a new level of ambition in terms of conceptual complexity, synthesizing opposing compositional approaches into a distinctive style that simultaneously elicits feelings of euphoria, perplexity, dread... and an inexorable urge to dance.
Titles :
01. Ineffable Dolphin Communion 02. Mysterium Tremendum 03. Absurdly Ineffective Barricade 04. The Fourth Wall Will Not Protect You 05. The Reason Your House Is Haunted Can Be Found On This Microfiche