Candy Claws have “Distortion Spear,” their first new music in a decade. The track appears on a bonus CD that lands with the 10th anniversary vinyl reissue of the, Ceres & Calypso In The Deep Time, out August 4th via Twosyllable Records. Featuring the original Ceres & Calypso lineup of Ryan Hover, K Hover, and Hank Bertholf, “Distortion Spear” crashes in with whirling synths before exploding into a reverb drenched euphoria: “Feel the rising mountain grow // Hear the minds of animals,” the band sings, “Follow streams deep in the vale // Leave the future far behind.”

Of “Distortion Spear,” Ryan explains: “After spending most of the decade on opposite coasts (K and I in New York and Hank in Washington) we reunited at our friend Riley’s wedding in Portland last summer of. It was great and surreal to hang out again, and we had the idea of making a new song for the 10th anniversary of Ceres & Calypso. Back home on our respective coasts, we collaborated long-distance during the following winter. Lyrically, it’s about how a decade can simultaneously feel like a lifetime and no time at all. Nature, memory, anticipation.”

When Candy Claws released their final album Ceres & Calypso In The Deep Time in June of 2013, they couldn’t have known the ripple effects that would ensue. The record sparked an immediate cult following, with huge, savage shoegaze guitars and the prettiest melodies this side of Paul McCartney’s daydreams. Returning to it once more, it’s a record of startling beauty and unfathomable strangeness.

Candy Claws are now split between the East and West coast, their mutual roots in Fort Collins now long since paved over. But Ceres & Calypso In The Deep Time remains — a kind of haunting, audio equivalent to a Studio Ghibli animation, akin to emerging from a dream and trying to piece together what your mind just glimpsed. Listening to the record once more, Ryan Hover is left with no regrets. “If it had all just gone into the ether, and been forgotten about, then we might have some regrets. But for some reason, there was just some spark on this one that people are still connecting with. It still feels like a really exciting thing to dive into.”

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