Sacred Shrines

Brisbane Australia’s Psych/Garage cult Sacred Shrines played their first show in March 2014, launching their debut 7 inch at the same time. The group emerged from the remnants of internationally acclaimed power-pop/psych powerhouse Grand Atlantic after their final shows in 2013, following years of constant local and overseas touring and 3 LP releases. Sacred Shrines provided songwriter Phil Usher with a new vehicle to showcase his fresh body of work and to start over with a refocused musical direction and a raw canvas to play with. During their brief tenure, Sacred Shrines have shared stages with The Dandy Warhols, Flyying Colours, Tumbleweed, The Murlocs, ORB, Stonefield and many more. If their first album was a sort of statement of arriving, like an alien spacecraft crash-landing on an undiscovered planet - Enter The Woods is a tale of losing your way and the time spent in the wilderness without a map to guide you. The album was recorded at various studios around Brisbane and was mixed by a carefully curated list of engineers from across the globe, chosen specifically with particular tracks in mind. The album’s themes cover a gamut of human emotion - mental illness, loss, betrayal, isolation, failure and self-belief to name a few and is another heady collection of cosmic sounds and diverse songwriting that further propels the band towards the far-out reaches of their own musical landscape.