[Exclusive] Spirit Award frontman Daniel Lyon details upcoming album 'Muted Crowd' and the band's recent fascination with cults
After dropping their impressive debut studio album 'Neverending' last year, Seattle-based trio Spirit Award continues their psychedelic-rock exploration on their sophomore record 'Muted Crowd,' due out on Friday, October 19 via Union Zero records.
Produced by Trevor Spencer (Father John Misty, Fleet Foxes), 'Muted Crowd' highlights the band’s signature style of expansive and enveloping soundscapes, offering an almost therapeutic quality, while touching upon some dark themes such as hopelessness, the ever-expanding sprawl of cities like Seattle and curiously enough, the lure of cults. The latter is exemplified by Spirit Award's lead single from the new album 'Supreme Truth' which is inspired by the Japanese death cult Aum Shinrikyo lead by Shoko Asahara, who recruited the Japanese elite to join his cult and carry out Tokyo subway sarin attack in 1995.
