The Myrrors - Land Back (Sam Giles CDr Edition)

Sam Giles Vinyl Replica CDr Edition - 60

Some bands whisper from the cultural sidelines; others pound their chests in the coliseum of commerce. But The Myrrors, those sonic druids of the desert fringe—have long occupied a third path, sounding not so much like a band as a vibration unearthed from beneath the floorboards of consensus reality. Rooted in Tucson’s red dust and sunstroke hallucinations, this long-running psych/Kommune collective has traced the lineage of righteous drone and revolutionary spirit unfurling their woozy, modal monoliths for over a decade now—refracting the drone gospel through smoke, sand, and solidarity.

It’s been seven years since their last LP—seven years in which the walls have kept crumbling, the empires have kept bombing, the algorithm hungrier, and the signal-to-noise ratio in a state of full collapse. But The Myrrors haven’t flinched. So it’s a righteous relief to hear The Myrrors return with a new slab—this time heavier, perhaps, in both vibe and vision. Not "heavier" in the riff sense (though they can still throw down a crater-dusted groove when they want). They remain what they’ve always been: fiercely independent, deeply principled, and sonically committed to the long, slow work of dismantling illusions.

Their new album 'Land Back' arrives not as a comeback, but as a continuation—a further transmission from the free zone. It pulses with the same communal spirit and ceremonial gravity we’ve come to expect, but with an added urgency, as if the stakes have finally caught up to the sound.

Following a period of relative quiet, cult "Sonoran drone rock" ensemble The Myrrors returns with their latest aural broadside. Founding members N.R. Safi (Naujawanan Baidar) and Grant Beyschau (Tambourinen, Pirámides) reunited with viola player Miguel Urbina in their desert hometown in late 2021 for an intensive week of improvisation, conversation, and recording, yielding the material for what should have been the immediate follow-up to their panoramic 2018 album Borderlands. Four years of global tumult later, we can finally hear the results - and (tragically) the material seems even more relevant today.

Charging out of the gates with the aptly named "Breakthrough" and careening sharply into the anti-colonial cry of "Land Back," it is clear that The Myrrors have once again whittled new forms into the raw material of their now-recognizable sound. The uncontrollable sparks only hinted at occasionally on previous albums has now emerged like a roaring wildfire, further highlighting the revolutionary politics that have always undergirded the band's art. Similarly, the cassette saturated grit heard across Safi and Beyschau's most recent ventures has clearly had an influence here, as the spectrality of previous productions has been hardened into something much more grounded and immediate.

None of this is to say that the familiar influences of minimalism, spiritual jazz, and raga that underscored The Myrrors' previous work has been done away with. In fact, this new record sees the group honing even more deeply into these territories, especially through a renewed emphasis on Beyschau's saxophone kaleidoscopically transformed here through the manipulation of a vintage analogue tape delay. Using Terry Riley's famed "time lag accumulator" technique, the band constructs a whirling tapestry of unpredictable sonic colors in which his single instrument can often ring out like a full ensemble in itself. In "Bakú a Bandung" all these disparate elements come together in a powerful, trance-like homage to the undying spirit of anti-imperialist resistance in the global peripheries. The pulsating throb of the bass and the wild swirl of instruments perhaps call to mind lines from the Afghan poet Rumi when he wrote in the Masnavi,

Dance, when you're broken open
Dance, if you've torn the bandage off Dance in the middle of the fighting
Dance in your blood
Dance when you're perfectly free

But of course, as The Myrrors are quick to remind us in the title track,
No one is free until we're all free

Land Back arrives August 9th, 2025 for International Day of the World's Indigenous People

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