Candy Claws has the uncanny ability to create folds in their music, little crevices in which you can effortlessly fall. Down the rabbit hole, you can seep into the primordial soup and explore the world that the music creates. The band’s aim with the new release is to outline three geologic periods of time: Triassic, Jurassic and Cretaceous. As the record explores the three portions of the Mesozoic Era, the listener journeys along with it.

“Transitional Bird (Clever Girl)” falls in the middle of the record, during the Jurassic Period. You feel the earth shaking under your feet with the epic percussion and blossoming vocal crescendos. The magical part about writing about this period of Earth’s history, and perhaps why it is so fitting for the effervescing musical style of Candy Claws, is the mystery behind it. While you can reconstruct the skeletons of mammoth beasts that once roamed the planet, you can’t feel the heavy atmosphere of the forests in which they roamed or glimpse over the edge of the cliff that would send you off into flight. The music creates an experience in which you can close your eyes and let your imagination build these sensations for you.

The band’s fourth album, Ceres & Calypso In The Deep Time, will be released June 25th via twosyllable.

Layers of green above
Layers of green
Where is the beginning
Sun rising tries to catch
A glimpse of forest floor

Perched on Branch-tip
Ready to jump
Falling through air
Black feathered wings
On sudden sound of wind begin to soar

Transitional bird,
When we hear;
We make a listening sound

Moon rising exchanges
Secrets with the leaves
Sitting with you in a tree
In soft rain feeling there’s
Time here for everything