Holy Ship Released Sun Macabre EP Via Declared Goods

Stockholm’s “shoegaze master” Holy Ship’s release new EP Sun Macabre! With praise from from tastemakers internationally on singles ‘‘Hail Haze’ and ‘Beyond Frames’, previous EPs Event Horizon (2019), and Les Deux Regards (2021), including US support at KEXP Seattle, and German radio legend Klaus Fiehe at 1Live, Holy Ship is capturing a growing fanbase globally. Sun Macabre EP showcases Holy Ship’smastery ofblending shoegaze, dreamy synths and fuzzy psych rock riffs, for a now signature sound that is Holy Ship.

Jonatan Westh launched Holy Ship in 2018, after his shoegaze band Blackstrap (V2, Tee Pee Records) had disintegrated after a decade. Building his own studio, ‘The Mothership’ in Stockholm, Westh mixed various recordings for Stockholm bands,Runtom Knuten , and danmarck which then sparked the recordings to what would be his new music as HOLY SHIP. Westh plays all instruments on the recordings except for drums by longtime collaborator David Götestam. Since Holy Ship’s 2019 debut EP Event Horizon and Les Deux Regards (2021) – the blend of psychedelic grooves, shoegaze and dark synth anthems- has found supporters such as US’s KEXP, Breakthru Radio, BrooklynVegan, IndieShuffle, and Swedish blogs Hymn, Savant Musik Magasin. Holy Ship has since expanded its existence outside the studio as a powerful live band with a handful of shows in Sweden in 2019/20 –and Summer Festivals in 2022

Sun Macabre EP – the 3^rd EP from Holy Ship exemplifies the dreamy psychedelic rock that has been gaining praise from press and radio such as “an absolute psych-gaze vortex, like The Jesus & Mary Chain are jamming in the same studio with A Place To Bury Strangers, My Bloody Valentine and Spacemen 3.” exclaimed blog  LastDayDeaf. Holy Ship’s Sun Macabre EPis a welcomed new psych rock energy on the scene. Sun Macabre EP is out 21 Oct on US label Declared Goods.