Eris Drew and Maya Bouldry-Morrison (aka Octo Octa ) live in a log cabin in rural New Hampshire, which seems a little strange at first—so far removed from the dance music touring circuit—but it also makes a lot of sense. Radical, queer, and believers in a psychedelics-fueled liberation theology based around the Motherbeat , the long-term couple are actually so New Hampshire. The cabin, where they’ve lived since the pandemic, is the focal point of their artistic lives, where they keep a gigantic sound system they’ve used to throw their own festival in Vermont, and the hallowed turntables that they lug around to gigs across North America.

To make Alchemical Sisters , their first collaborative full-length, Drew and Bouldry-Morrison transformed the bedroom of their cabin into a hermetically sealed studio.…