Octo Octa and Eris Drew announce their debut LP as Alchemical Sisters, out October 18 on Interdimensional Transmissions
For nearly a decade, Maya Bouldry-Morrison and Eris Drew have been synonymous with a particular kind of dancefloor communion, the all-vinyl back-to-back sets, the trans-ecstatic gospel of house, the log cabin in New Hampshire that doubles as label headquarters. What they have never done, oddly, is release a full-length album together. That changes on October 18, when the couple issue their self-titled debut LP as Alchemical Sisters via the Detroit psychedelic institution Interdimensional Transmissions.
The pair describe the record in press materials as “psychedelic chaos, acid rollers, and big beat, channeled through hardware instruments and animated by love, touch, rhythm, and spiritual fire.” It is a mission statement dressed as a genre tag, and for once the woo-woo language earns its keep.
A Band Born From a Four-Day Trip
The Alchemical Sisters name is not new. It first surfaced in 2021, attached to a remix the two produced for New Orleans punk band Special Interest. According to Interdimensional Transmissions, that track emerged from a four-day mushroom journey completed under an impossibly tight deadline, the first time Bouldry-Morrison and Drew had ever written music as a single unit rather than two soloists sharing a booth. The experiment stuck. They went on to rework Paramida for Love On The Rocks and contributed the original “Yellow Acid” to Dekmantel’s anniversary box set before committing to a full record.
To make the album, the duo emptied the master bedroom of their cabin and rebuilt it as what they call a hermetic recording vessel, cramming every instrument they owned into one room. The result was tracked entirely on hardware and mixed in Logic, a meaningful shift for Bouldry-Morrison, who told Clash earlier this year that she had spent more than two decades in Ableton Live and had fallen into a creative rut with it. “Over the past few years my partner Eris Drew has been learning and also teaching me a lot about mixing down music,” she said, adding that this was the first project where she felt she had finally landed somewhere she was happy with sonically.
That process matters because the Alchemical Sisters project has always been framed as more than a side hustle. In a 2024 interview with Metal, Drew called it plainly: “Maya and I have a project coming up called Alchemical Sisters. It’s like our band.” The distinction is real. This is not two DJs favor-trading edits. It is a group with a discography, a lineage, and a stated intent.
Why This Matters Now
The announcement lands during a fertile stretch for both artists. Bouldry-Morrison released her own solo LP, Sigils for Survival, earlier this year, and the two recently delivered one of their vaunted B2B sets at Amsterdam’s Dekmantel festival. They are scheduled to play Making Time ∞ in Philadelphia next month.
Across a career defined by community fundraising, from House of Tulip to the Sylvia Rivera Law Project, the duo have insisted that the rave is a site of transformation rather than escape. Alchemical Sisters, self-titled and self-contained, reads like the natural endpoint of that argument: two people who found each other on the dancefloor, now bottling the lightning in a single room.
The self-titled LP arrives October 18 on Interdimensional Transmissions.
Alchemical Sisters tracklist:
01 This Is How It Should Be Done
02 We’ve Seen Great Power
03 Double Acid
04 Anytime Sisters Slide
05 One 2 One 2 Three Four
06 Did You Know
07 Song for New Hampshire
08 Why Not Dream
