Stim Junkeez and Sebastianhead guide you to new sonic heights on their monumental and multi-dimensional sophomore album Pyramids Of Perception — showcasing today on Tinnitist.
The long-overdue followup to 2020’s Time Over Time LP finds the Toronto chillout collaborators expanding their hybrid EDM sound, adding more pop, deep house, synthwave, and psychedelic elements to their guitar-driven electronic beats.
Spearheaded by the visionary funk and pumping house of lead single See The Matrix — featuring the intimately soulful vocals of singer-songwriter Sappho — the LP features remixes from Canadian DJ Marchisio, as well as Italian producers Aniello Guerra, Bob Rage & Peanuke, Erik Strauss and more.
The SJSH collaboration began in the mid 2010s, focusing on a shared interest in ambient, new age and downtempo music. With electronic beats built around the David Gilmour-esque guitar playing of Sebastianhead, they released the singles Meis Disciples, Binary Sun and Inception Point. That culminated in their first compilation LP Time Over Time, which featured a selection of their favorite remixes from DJs and producers from around the world.
As work began on their followup, bandmember Dave Habza brought in sci-pop artist Sappho Hansen Smythe to handle lyrics and vocals for their lead single, resulting in the pop-driven See The Matrix. The album also includes the synthwave-inspired Neon Strip, before the familiar psychedelic downtempo of the title track builds into an intense neo-classical guitar solo.
Listen to (and buy) Pyramids Of Perception below, watch the video for See The Matrix above, find Sappho on her website, Facebook and Instagram, and get down with Stim Junkeez & Sebastianhead on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter.
