It's great to see Sunny War back with a new LP as she takes a philosophical look back at her rocky road via varied strains of Americana all united by her fine, self taught, guitar playing & distinctive soulful folk vocals.

For their third full-length album, Von Doodle Daddies blurs the line between what the subconscious mind weaves during dreams and what dreaming while awake leads to in reality. 

Jeff Burris and Bob Appel can't be nailed down to a pat style, but there is a thread running through all of it. From anthem to shuffle, Kaleidoscope Dream drives down a road on which the listener passes the scenery of urban challenges, thru the challenges of two people riding together, the state that lies right in between consciousness and slumber, and finally from despair to being proactive with one's contentment. 

Take the ride with us.

05 - Kaleidoscope Dream

04 - Hypnagagia

03 - Heart Shaped Soul

02 - Tell Me You Can Feel It

01 - Place Found

Released on the heels of her critically acclaimed 2018 album, With the Sun, Sunny War’s new album finds her a little bit older, a little bit more mature, but looking back on the rocky roads of her past with a surprising amount of nostalgia. Shell of a Girl, coming August, 23rd, 2019 on Hen House Studios with vinyl released by Org Music, was written in a burst of creativity in Los Angeles, and marks a new transition period, with Sunny moving from the Venice Beach boardwalk, where she first made her name, to the streets of downtown Los Angeles. Holed up in a studio apartment in an old halfway house that’s rumored to be haunted, Sunny muses “I think I’ve heard ghosts, but I’ve always heard ghosts everywhere.” These ghosts are reflected in the songs on the new album, either through the ghosts of friends who’ve passed away, from overdose or accident, or in the ghosts of who she used to be. “I feel like I’ve tricked myself into trying to be a part of the system that I swore I’d never participate in,” she says. “Now I’m worried about moving from a studio to a one-bedroom. It bums me out when the thing I’m happy about is paying the light bill. I’m never happy about something that’s real anymore.”

Shell Of A Girl

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Founded in 2001, Hen House Studios is an independent music label located in Venice, California

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