“I first heard Sun Blood Stories while waiting in line for a street taco at Treefort 2013. A virile guttural howling was haunting the air from the Main Stage and it drew me front and center to catch the band's rendition of "Barfly Blues." I was smitten by their tribal affects: war paint streaked on their cheeks and foreheads, post-psychedelia hair-dos, and their feral, provocative, eroticism. Case in point, they billed their gig as a "ritual." Hypnotic, tribal, eerie, this wasn't music I necessarily wanted to dance to; but, I was transfixed, swaying in place like a hypnotized mongoose in a cobra grip, ready to leap for safety if (most likely) necessary. My transfixion has carried over these past two years watching the band morph away from vocals to sonic textures that they themselves have described as "desert ghost music", "glitter witch nightmares" and—most currently—as "slow motion, echo-nightmare sounds you'd hear on ancient alien radio, while you're stranded in the middle of a ghost desert on Mars, summoning the spirits of the Ancient Ones."
Okay (gulp)! I'm game?!!
As the band has morphed, so has its members, and with last Fall's reconfiguration with the addition of three new band members, I felt it was time to sit down and talk with the group shortly before leaving to San Francisco for the winter.“