DAUGHTER OF THE VINE – Holy is the Sun (2026, LP, Sol PWR Records) 

RELEASE INFO:

Label: Sol PWR Records

Format: LP, Album, Limited Edition, Red Marbled Vinyl

Release Date: 20 June 2026

Psychedelia has always had a way of turning the familiar into something strangely unfamiliar, and Daughter of the Vine seems to understand that language instinctively. Formed around the Boston-area musicians Margaret Garrett, Greggory Porter, Chris Lohring, and Kurt Davis, the band approaches psychedelic music not through excess or sheer volume, but through atmosphere, space and a quietly hypnotic sense of exploration. With Garrett’s ethereal vocals and guitar at the centre, “Holy is the Sun” unfolds through reverberating guitars, organ, bass, percussion, Mohan veena, sound bowls and analogue textures, creating a sound that is warm, organic and deeply immersive. Recorded to analogue tape during 2025–2026 and released on the Summer Solstice, the album feels like a carefully constructed meeting point between psychedelic folk, cosmic rock and dreamlike experimentation. Rather than simply looking backwards to the sounds of the past, Daughter of the Vine use those elements as raw material for something personal, spacious and distinctly contemporary.

“Holy is the Sun” contains 7 tracks. The album opens with “Space Behind The Sound”, beginning with a slow, slightly eerie and mystical atmosphere before gradually revealing its psychedelic intentions. Margaret’s dreamy female vocals float above a serene, melancholic soundscape, while the band patiently builds the mood, eventually allowing a subtle Space Rock influence to emerge towards the end. “Holy Is The Sun” continues the journey with Margaret once again at the microphone, surrounded by a hypnotically trippy and psychedelically ethereal arrangement where Folk, Psych and Dark Americana melt together beautifully. A fantastic tune in its own right, it also establishes a musical connection with the following “Hand/Prints”, which inhabits essentially the same sonic scenery but leans a little further towards ambient Folk. This mid-tempo instrumental gradually becomes more intense and increasingly psychedelic as it approaches its final moments, preparing the ground perfectly for “Holy Is The Sun (a slight return)”, a brief, dream-like trip built around effected sounds and a wonderfully hazy psychedelic atmosphere. On the flip side, “Skipping Stones” initially embraces an acoustic character, introducing a mellow, dreamy summer feeling before transforming into a mid-tempo ballad enriched by ethereal female vocals and an intense Folk-Psych flavour. The album’s undisputed highlight, the epic “Lament (Timeless Time)”, stretching out to 9:35 and taking the listener deep into a lysergic sea of tranquility. Here, time seems to lose all meaning as the music gradually descends into darker and increasingly psychedelic territory, with male vocals and a mind-melting, vibrated psychedelic guitar sound carrying the whole experience into another dimension. What a trip! Finally, “Space Behind The Sound (a slight return)” brings the journey full circle, revisiting the opening track in a more liberated, trippy and psychedelic form. Stripped of vocals, this voiceless version lets the instrumentation wander freely, turning the original atmosphere into something even more mind-bending and providing a fitting final drift into the unknown.

In conclusion, “Holy is the Sun” is the kind of album that rewards patience, inviting the listener to surrender to its slow-burning psychedelic spell. Daughter of the Vine blend Folk, Dark Americana, Psychedelia and Spacey atmospherics into a warm, deeply immersive experience that never feels forced. A beautifully crafted trip through light and darkness, with “Lament (Timeless Time)” standing as its ultimate mind-expanding destination. Dig! TimeLord Michalis 

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