SPIRIT AWARD

Spirit Award is the moniker for Seattle-based singer/songwriter Daniel Lyon, along with bassist and collaborator Chris Jordan (Sunny Day Real Estate). The band's vision has always been to make something with intention, love, vulnerability, raw emotion, and authenticity that captures the human spirit. The sound has morphed into a feeling and sound that is motorik, psychedelic, fuzzy, ethereal, driving, and aggressive but still maintains pop sensibilities.

Their new album, The Fear is an exploration of the supernatural, love, dreaming/waking, and most of all facing the things that scare you or you think you can’t do, all encompassed in a warping and changing landscape. The Fear is intended as a meditation, a release of energy and putting positivity and motivation for creating love and joy, challenging what you were raised in or what society tells you to believe. Listen and find what rings true to you based on your experience, enjoy the journey with plenty of room to ask questions, and entertain the mystical. The Fear was co-produced and mixed by Trevor Spencer (Beach House, Father John Misty).

For this record, they have chosen to support MusiCares - an organization that “provides a safety net of critical health and welfare services to the music community.”