Bard’s Flying Vessel
Formed by Joey Dussault, Matt Dwyer, and Aaron Swartz, Brooklyn band Bard’s Flying Vessel owes as much of their influence to the garage rock basements of Boston as they do to John Carpenter films. Having become friends in college in Boston, over the years the three moved to Brooklyn and began jamming together, pulling ideas from each of their own interests. Through a collaborative process of distilling group jams and some solo songwriting by each member, the band wrote their debut album, all while pushing each other to experiment further with each new recording.
Their resulting debut LP I is a psychedelic journey recorded through 2019-2020 in bedrooms across Brooklyn and a cabin in the Catskill mountains of upstate New York. I finds Matt singing over wailing synths and frenetic drumming, all set to Aaron and Joey’s fuzzed out riffs. Combining the styles of heavy psych, acid folk, garage rock, and surf, the band layers together sounds that build new worlds.
Along the way the band linked up with some collaborators who added their own twists to the heady stew that is I. David Glasebrook (Sugar Candy Mountain, Oliver Ray & Patti Smith) mixed the album and New Zealand based graphic artist Callum Rooney created the trippy original artwork for the album cover.
Royal Oakie Records is excited to release the album on October 29th 2021, just in time for Halloween. Tune in, drop out, and float away to the far out sounds of Bard’s Flying Vessel.
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