Following their debut album Faithless Rituals in 2000, Sky Valley Mistress has finally returned with new single ‘Too Many Ghosts’.
The track is the first taster of their upcoming second album, that sees the band now performing as a duo, and will be released later this year, again on cult indie label New Heavy Sounds.
While Faithless Rituals was recorded at Rancho De La Luna in Joshua Tree, California this time they chose The Nave Studios, Leeds with engineer Danny Blackburn (Adult DVD). The sound of the desert apparently still fuels the band, and their latest cut has been described as “cactus needle sharp”, you can check out the lyric video here at RAMzine.
“This song is meant for the open highway. Somewhere you have the freedom to put your foot down and still feel like you’re cruising,” said the band.
Now streamlined and stripped back to the two original members, refusing to conform to conventions, on the record Sky Valley Mistress has doubled down their studio sound and present themselves as a four-piece band. How the “hearse rollin’, flare strollin’, speaker ‘splodin’ outfit” recreate this in the flesh as a duel-drumming duo however, needs to be seen to be believed. Lead vocalist Kayley ‘Hell Kitten’ Davies picks up the sticks and play one half of a drum kit, with former drummer Maxwell Harvey William Newsome III taking on the electric guitar and keeping one foot on the kick drum. No samples. No backing tracks. No click tracks. No one is playing rock and roll the way that these two do.
