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We had the pleasure of interviewing Gus Englehorn over Zoom video!

Montreal singer-songwriter Gus Englehorn announces his sophomore album Dungeon Master, the cutest, heaviest, strangest rock\u2019n\u2019roll record you will hear this year. Set for release on April 29 via Secret City Records, the news is accompanied with a new single + video directed by Englehorn and Est\xe9e Preda; the stomping, paranoid \u201cTarantula.\u201d Englehorn says, \u201cThis song is about uninvited recurring irrational thoughts and fears. I decided to make a little fable where a tarantula is whispering bad things into your ear. Most of the time I have to use a lot of words to get my point across, so I was particularly pleased with this one because there\u2019s only 15 words in it.\u201d The release follows previous lead single \u201cThe Gate,\u201d a delirious, headbanging allegory about facing your own mortality. In March, Englehorn will also feature as an official artist at SXSW in Austin, Texas.

Dungeon Master, Englehorn\u2019s Secret City Records debut, is an outsider opus that sparkles with Dada spirit \u2014 a playful juxtaposition of isolation, alienation and mildish OCD. Surprising, paranoid, and studded with synths and strings, Dungeon Master is deeper than a cellar and blunter than a club \u2014 a shivering introduction to an artist who\u2019s finally arrived. \u201cI let my subconscious do the driving,\u201d Gus admits, and as you listen to these 10 tunes, it\u2019s difficult not to do the same: to sit back like a dog with a two-legged daydream; like a fisherwoman with her net; like a snowboarder with a mouth full of powder.

Before he made the record in a cabin in the woods, he lived in Salt Lake City, Utah, where he fell in love at first sight with a woman from Qu\xe9bec, a girl named Est\xe9e Preda, who plays drums like Moe Tucker on salvia. In those days, Gus was a professional snowboarder \u2014 crisscrossing the world as a weird and world-class talent, kick-flipping through videos, shredding the gnar, posing in corporate-sponsored sunglasses. Before that he lived in Hawaii \u2014 on a lava field off-grid, with his folks. And before that in Alaska \u2014 in a hamlet called Ninilchik, where his parents fished for salmon and he and his brothers ate moose and pizza, played Nintendo, and also pretended to be wizards.

For almost all of Gus\u2019s life \u2014 from Big Island\u2019s sunsets to snowy Utah pistes \u2014 he dreamed of being a songwriter. If he couldn\u2019t be Dylan, maybe he\u2019d be Daniel Johnston, or Frank Black and The Pixies, or maybe Darby Crash and The Germs. And when he finally emerged \u2014 first on 2020\u2019s Death & Transfiguration and now here on the 34-year-old\u2019s label debut \u2014 he had found a sound that was dark and delightful, fun and demented, packed with dynamics and the chug of a hysterical guitar.

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