Colin M.
This rules! A heady brew of psychedelia, folk, and rock with a standout vocal performance. Sisteria don't like quite like anyone else and are so much better for it. Dig it!
Favorite track: Winter Crow.
Bucky
Wow! Dark Matter is a mystic brew of enchanting psychedelia with enough rock n roll groove to unite hippies and the metal heads alike. This is fresh and exciting new tunage, straight outa Norman, OK.
Sisteria is a thunderous new psychedelic band from Norman, OK, spearheaded by folk-singer-turned-rock-goddess Katie Williams. With an alliance of accomplished players at her side, she spelunks into deep, primal consciousness to reclaim buried treasures of the self. From the outset, the band unchains itself from streaming algorithms and expectations, choosing instead to feed the desires of the art itself. Naturally, this fits the nature of psychedelic rock to a tee, but it also captures the album's themes of embodied spirituality.
Recommended if you like: Black Mountain, All Them Witches, Black Sabbath, Jefferson Airplane
"The songs on “Dark Matter” aren’t just collections of psychedelia or magical buzzwords to evoke some grand, drug-fueled vision. Williams is spinning time-honored fantasy folk tales of cosmic defiance in the western wastelands, but recasting the archetypical calm, sneering, and enduringly male main character with an Earth-mother protagonist, confidently emotional and encouraging, but with the power and resolve of an encroaching thunderstorm." - Brett Fieldcamp, OKC Free Press
"With an invigorating take on psychedelic rock, Sisteria is aimed at being the next thing we all think of when Oklahoma is mentioned in casual conversations" - Kendra Beltran, ZO Magazine
"Katie Williams of the Norman, Oklahoma band steals the show with haunting vocals while the rest of the band churns out stoner metal riffs, creating a dark Black Sabbath stew of psych, doom and hard rock" - Glide Magazine
"It doesn’t conform to psychedelia, stadium rock, or the hippie era. Sisteria is its own blend of enchantment." - Simon Smith, Higher Plain Music
"Com uma vibe extremamente forte, o rock apresentado em Wade My Way traz guitarras perfeitas, bateria sólida, baixo espalhando seus graves para todos os lados, uma intro de teclado fabulosa, além das linhas vocais mágicas, envolventes e poderosas da magnífica Katie Williams que dão uma cor todo especial a uma composição que já nasceu grande." - Roadie Music
credits
released August 19, 2022
Katie Williams - bocals
Steve Boaz - drums, bass, guitar, keys
Nathan Lofties -vocals, guitars, banjo
Daniel Walker - keys (tracks 1, 2, 5, 6, 8)
Richie Tarver - guitar (tracks 3, 8)
Matthew Jewell - bass (tracks 3, 8)
Lori Ann Wilde- flute (track 4)
David Bruster- guitar (track 2)
Chris (Paco) Johnson - bass (track 2)
Kevin Webb - guitar (tracks 6, 7)
Michael Rose - bass (tracks 6, 7)
Mike Hosty - guitar, sitar (track 8)
All songs / lyrics by Sisteria / Katie Williams Music / BMI
Produced, engineered and mixed by Steve Boaz at Breathing Room Studio in Norman, OK
Mastered by Adam Matza at Magic Ears Mastering in Asheville, NC
Photography by Brittany Phillips
Album art by Sterling Williams
Album layout and font design by Hershel Self
Dedicated to those who remind us there is just as much beauty in the dark as there is in the light
Sisteria is a thunderous new psychedelic band from Norman, OK, spearheaded by folk-singer-turned-rock-goddess Katie
Williams. With an alliance of accomplished players at her side, she spelunks into deep, primal consciousness to reclaim buried treasures of the
self. If it is taboo to fraternize with raw mineral deposits
of untempered life force, Sisteria wears its adultery with
the purest scarlet....more
A neat conceptual album; as a hardcore roleplayer, I appreciate the module and can't really separate module from album; definitely one of the albums that you want to listen to in its entirety, not just dip into. endzeitgeist
The flac version of this sounds great in my truck... not a crunch, clip or boom to be heard. That, in itself, gets this major points.
This is a lovely combination of early Floyd, U2 and a few San Francisco bands from the '60s with a heavy dose of Helmet tossed in. It's definitely best of breed when it comes to modern psych stuff. Even without a Hammond B3, it gets an easy A+... rick-taylor
For some reason, what I previewed and the real songs was somewhat different - maybe because of the cover art?
But I definitely don't regret something more spacial than expected. The recent Ocean drifting in space. frankwurst
Fantastic album from front to back! Incredibly catchy, fuzzy riffs, great songwriting and powerful lyricism.
A classic of modern heavy psych / stoner music! Brett