EXPERIMENTAL JOURNEY

Lords Of Apricity Release Debut Ep

SOME OF THE BEST THINGS ARE BORN OUT OF HAPPY ACCIDENTS – just ask Lords of Apricity songwriter and musician David Koenig, who was behind the band and its debut EP.

What began as weekly studio sessions turned into a much more expansive project when Koenig, formerly of the Eau Claire band Green Mountain Rebels, realized that there was something bigger behind the songs he was making. As a classic ’70s-style rock ’n’ roll musician, Koenig wanted to create some of the music he felt was missing from current tracks. He reached out to old bandmates, friends, and even some new creatives he had never met before to help him with this project – and they all agreed.

The EP was engineered/co-produced by Brian Joseph, a notable Eau Claire producer (Bon Iver, Phil Cook Sufjan Stevens, and many more), and two tracks were co-written by Jered Shaw, an old bandmate of Koenig. The EP was recorded at The Hive in Eau Claire in late January 2022. Eau Claire’s influences are all over this EP with lead vocals by Susan Renee Thiede, percussion by Joe Gunderson, co-production by Matt Tiller, saxophone by Sue Orfield, and lead guitar by Lucas Fischer.

“I shared the material with everyone ahead of time and everybody worked on it in their own time,” Koenig said. “We all met in Eau Claire to record it and that was the same day we all met each other. None of us had played together before. It was a total experiment.”

There are three songs on the EP – “Victory Song,” “What It Takes,” and “Planet Planet” – each with its own unique journey to production.

The EP was released July 22 and is available to stream everywhere. Koenig said that the experience was so enriching that everyone is itching to do it again.

While the Lords of Apricity isn’t a band in the traditional sense, their work together felt like apricity, which is the warmth of the sun in winter.

Learn more about the band at lordsofapricity.com. Read the full article at VolumeOne.org.