After releasing five albums of elegiac folk-rock incorporating punk and blues music alongside Adam Haworth Stevens as Two Gallants, Tyson Vogel quite literally regrouped post-pandemic to construct music with a fuller sound in order to harness the hardships that came with that era. The result is Leak in the Dream World, the debut album from his new quartet Thunder Boys. Lead single “Sorry Jars & Shooting Stars” presented the new project as being more akin to the Bay Area psych-rock scene than any of Vogel’s prior material, while the record’s title track and latest single sees the band experimenting with spacey prog structures, the whirring noise of band member Justin Flowers’ CCR Headcleaner project, and the type of plinking saloon piano that would feel at home in a Two Gallants murder ballad.
“‘Leak in the Dreamworld’ is a torch song, a passion song to the fissures in all of us that bleed magic, movement, unbridled spirit, visions, soul, and transfiguration to spill forward,” Vogel shares of the new single. “[It] was written for the broken-hearted, for the silenced and psychologically imprisoned; for the dreams that accompany every revolutionary beginning. Whether a mantra for the modest human in painful and silent alchemy towards their own freedom, wrestling with a labyrinth of liars and saints within and without, or a chant that attempts to reconcile pain towards a more worldly, and otherworldly, understanding and release of the bonds of society and skin.”
Check out the five minute cut below. Leak in the Dream World is out June 14 via Vogel’s Orphan Records imprint—pre-order it here.
