Eris Drew and Octo Octa Have Always Played as Two. Their First Album Makes Them One.

Eris Drew and Octo Octa have built their whole reputation on being two distinct voices sharing one booth: an all-vinyl b2b partnership sharp enough to headline Dekmantel and Dimensions, and personal enough that they run their T4T LUV NRG label and party series together from that same New Hampshire cabin. What they hadn't done, until now, was make a record where you can't tell whose track it is anymore.

Where did the Alchemical Sisters name come from?

It wasn't invented for this album. The alias first appeared on a remix Eris Drew and Octo Octa made together for the punk band Special Interest, a one-off studio collaboration that stuck. Interdimensional Transmissions, the Detroit label putting out the new record, has now made it permanent: a joint identity for the music the two of them make when neither is working solo.

What does the album actually sound like?

Eight tracks, four sides of vinyl, self-titled, out October 18. The label's own description is blunt about the intent: "psychedelic chaos, acid rollers and big beat channeled through hardware instruments." That's a rougher, more rave-damaged palette than either artist's most recent solo work, Eris Drew's DJ-Kicks mix or Octo Octa's Sigils for Survival, both of which leaned into a more melodic, songwriterly house sound. Track titles like "Double Acid," "One 2 One 2 Three Four" and "Song For New Hampshire" point at something built for a specific room and a specific state of mind rather than a playlist.

Preview clips are up now.

"Psychedelic chaos, acid rollers and big beat channeled through hardware instruments."

Why record it in a cabin in the woods?

Because that cabin is already the operation's real headquarters, not a retreat from it. Eris Drew and Octo Octa have run T4T LUV NRG out of New Hampshire since 2019, and the album was tracked there in an improvised studio before the mixes went to BMG in Detroit, the same city as the label putting the record out. The geography matters for the sound: a duo known for a rave-history-obsessed, all-hardware live approach making an album in the place where they actually live and work, rather than in a studio built for someone else's session.