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pentasomnia

by iota

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    180 gram vinyl, Limited edition of 300 units. 100 Trans Clear, 100 Solid White, 100 Hand Poured Dark Ocean Floor Mix. This album is currently being pressed at Gold Rush Vinyl in Austin, TX and will be available March of 2024.


    Side A:
    1. The Intruder – 08:14
    2. The Witness – 05:22


    Side B:
    3. The Returner – 09:15
    4. The Timekeeper - 05:56
    5. The Great Dissolver – 03:26

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  • Record/Vinyl + Digital Album

    180 gram vinyl, Limited edition of 300 units. 100 Trans Clear, 100 Solid White, 100 Hand Poured Dark Ocean Floor Mix. This album is currently being pressed at Gold Rush Vinyl in Austin, TX and will be available March of 2024.


    Side A:
    1. The Intruder – 08:14
    2. The Witness – 05:22


    Side B:
    3. The Returner – 09:15
    4. The Timekeeper - 05:56
    5. The Great Dissolver – 03:26

    Includes unlimited streaming of pentasomnia via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
    ships out within 7 days
    edition of 100 
    Purchasable with gift card

      $26.99 USD or more 

     

  • Record/Vinyl + Digital Album

    180 gram vinyl, Limited edition of 300 units. 100 Trans Clear, 100 Solid White, 100 Hand Poured Dark Ocean Floor Mix. This album is currently being pressed at Gold Rush Vinyl in Austin, TX and will be available March of 2024.


    Side A:
    1. The Intruder – 08:14
    2. The Witness – 05:22


    Side B:
    3. The Returner – 09:15
    4. The Timekeeper - 05:56
    5. The Great Dissolver – 03:26

    Includes unlimited streaming of pentasomnia via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
    ships out within 7 days
    edition of 100 
    Purchasable with gift card

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The Intruder 08:14
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The Witness 05:21
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The Returner 09:14
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about

It's been nearly 16 years since Salt Lake City's Iota carved a place for themselves in the heavy underground with their debut album, Tales. Released by Small Stone Records, recorded by drummer Andy Patterson (The Otolith, ex-SubRosa, etc.), with founding guitarist/vocalist Joey Toscano (who'd form Dwellers after) and bassist Oz Inglorious (ex-Bird Eater, Suffocater) drawing heavy rock impulses across space in a way that was innovative and engrossing. Marked by the 20-minute "Dimensional Orbiter" that was the first song the band ever wrote, it showed huge potential for Iota, who moved onto other outfits while the cult of those in the know steadily grew.

Pentasomnia, an album of five dreams, marks a return for a project begun by Toscano circa 2001, a band that has been intermittently lived with, shelved, pushed, pulled, stretched and twisted, but whose sound shimmers with atmosphere and the resonant, bluesy emotionalism of Toscano's vocals. Rather than some slapdash decade-and-a-half-later follow-up to a record on its way to being a niche-classic, Pentasomnia is cohesive, and as much an unexpected step forward as an unexpected return. Iota -- Toscano, Inglorious, Patterson -- revel in the groove and sway of these five songs, from the boozy head-hang of opener "The Intruder" into the ambient push of "The Returner," which feels like a manifestation of the meld between cosmic and desert rocks that was so much the heart of the band during their first run; the very essence of what they do, given new life and perspective.

"Pentasomnia is an amalgamation," says Toscano, "roughly translating to 'five dreams'. Each song is told from the perspective of a different mental state. Challenging the ideas of traditional norms about identity and our place within the world; questioning the very idea of a self. A cathartic acknowledgement of our infinitesimally small place in a vast musical landscape. Live shows will unveil the album's essence, offering glimpses into our musical journey's dark comedy and complexity. Enjoy these songs as snapshots of a fever dream.”

Iota's awaited sophomore full-length was written and recorded live over a series of sessions between 2018 and 2019 and completed in the tumultuous years after, family health emergencies, other projects and recordings, the odd pandemic, work, all the stuff of life happening all at once as ever. And somehow, in and perhaps from all of that, the three-piece have managed to come back together, find each other and renew their sound, and to let the intervening time underscore how crucial their collaboration genuinely is. There are going to be a lot of heavy rock records released in 2024. You sleep on Iota at your own risk.

- JJ Koczan

credits

released March 22, 2024

iota is:
Joey Toscano: guitars, synths, vocals
Oz: bass
Andy Patterson: drums

Artwork by Dani Joy.
Layout by Alexander von Wieding.
Photography by Rachel W. Rawle.
Recorded by Andy Patterson at Boar’s Nest, Salt Lake City, UT.
Mixed by Eric Hoegemeyer at Tree Laboratory, Brooklyn, NY.
Mastered by Chris Goosman at Baseline Audio Labs, Ann Arbor, MI.
Thank you to everybody and everything.

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