Power prog rock trio Marsupious launches Stone Baby and tour

Albuquerque-based rock group Marsupious is hitting the road, and winning fans, following the release of their debut CD Stone Baby. The bass-driven power trio has recorded thirteen tracks of pulsing, grinding, prog rock capturing the spontaneous combustion of live performances. From their New Mexican epicenter, singer and lyricist Jeff Holland, drummer Dave Barela, and creative source, bassist Joseph Michel, are taking Marsupious to new physical, and imaginative, destinations.

Marsupious’s emergence on the rock scene is a mixture of ideal timing, top musicianship and the artistic courage it takes to drop the guitar and put the bass up front. Now, to the delight of listeners, Holland’s searching, almost tearing voice rides Michel and Barela’s hard grooves on Stone Baby.

The rumbling, cascading drums and bass intro of opening track “FNG” (for “fucking no good”) sounds the album’s call and soon you know Marsupious is all about exploration, inward and outward. Twelve tracks of equal fervor follow and, now and again, Marsupious’s rocklike its collective mindbleeds into psychedelia. Throughout Stone Baby’s thirteen compositions Holland’s wide-roaming mindwith rants about everything from bad politics to drug addictiontakes listeners through a universe of concerns.

This ambitious scope of thinking is matched, track after track, by Barela’s barrier stomping percussive onslaught. As for Michel, listen to his bass licks dancing in the vacuum of a vamp and you’ll know the band’s personal, deeply intimate inner journey is being reflected in the music Marsupious is making.