UK garage psych noise rock duo POHL stream their debut album »Mysteries«; out now through Wrong Speed Records!

Sheffield, UK based garage psych noise rock duo POHL stream their debut album, entitled »Mysteries«, which was just released on July 26th, 2024 through Wrong Speed Records. Featuring former members of Hey Colossus and Old Hope.

Listen to »Mysteries« on all major streaming services!

Tracklist:
01. Narrator
02. God
03. The Whale
04. Untitled 2
05. Revelation
06. Cellar Head
07. The Door
08. Pergamon
09. End

Courtesy of Sheltered Life PR:

Since the release of their debut EP »Pohlsmoker« in 2012, POHL has shifted inelegantly through various iterations, line-up changes and self-imposed intermissions. But one constant that has forever remained scorched onto the temporal lobes of those in-the-know is the glorious sound they leave in their wake.

Based in Sheffield, POHL is and always has been a stunning and brutal noise rock duo, currently featuring former Hey Colossus axeman Will Pearce on guitar/vocals, and drummer, Dr Linda Westman of the late Toronto-based death metal two-piece, Old Hope.

This July the band releases their debut album »Mysteries«; a sonic tome which draws as much from MF Doom as it does doom metal. It’s a swirling, cosmic onslaught of heavy motorik riffs and offhand musings about everything and nothing in equal measure.

In intermittent beats, new single »The Whale« summons the glorious thunder pop of Torche, the pithy lyricism of K.A.R.P. and the DIY derring-do ethos of Guided by Voices. As guitarist/vocalist Will Pearce explains:

“I suppose you could say that »Mysteries« is an album about grief. How we live with grief, and how we overcome it. When you’re trapped in the belly of the beast, and all seems lost – how do you come back from that? All I can say is that sometimes you eat the whale, and sometimes the whale eats you.”

Pearce, who had previously played with Hey Colossus on their 2019 album »Four Bibles« and 2020’s »Dances/Curses« is thrilled to be teaming up once more with former bandmate Joe Thompson and his Wrong Speed Records imprint. Recorded at the band’s own Cool World studio and mixed by serial collaborator and producer Wayne Adams, »Mysteries« is many things, often all at the same time. Packing astute biblical allusions to random Burroughsian cut ups, it is mystical, profane, sacred, and scatological. Profoundly stupid, perhaps? Or just stupidly profound… either way, it demands your attention.

»Mysteries« by POHL was officially released on 26th July 2024 on Wrong Speed Records.

Get »Mysteries« on vinyl here:
pohl.bandcamp.com/album/mysteries

Credits:

Vocals, Guitars and Synths by Will Pearce
Drums by Dr Linda Westman

Additional synths by Wayne Adams
Spoken word on »Untitled II« and »The Door« by Gabrielle Astin

Recorded by Will Pearce at Cool World, Sheffield
Mixed and mastered by Wayne Adams at Bear Bites Horse, London
Art and Layout by Chemical Messiah
Photo by Lindsay Melbourne

Bojan Bidovc // music enthusiast, promoter, misanthrop and sometimes a journalist as well