Our weekly fix of the best new music as Julia Mason (aka The Decibel Decoder) brings us her new music review with singles from bdrmm Infinity Peaking and Young Knives Cause & Effect
Artist: bdrmm
Track: Infinity Peaking
The Hull band bdrmm admit that being asked to support Daniel Avery, along with a trip to Field Day for a group rave, were both instrumental moments in the band deciding to incorporate more dance music elements into their sound.
Latest single Infinity Peaking is taken from their new album Microtonic set for release on 28 February via Mogwai's Rock Action label. The synth-driven shoe gazey atmosphere of Infinity Peaking is hypnotic, the repetition drawing in the listener. The soft vocals add to the ethereal soundscape while the consistent percussion beat weaves its magic. The synths gently bob in and out, almost imperceptibly at times.
Guitarist and vocalist Ryan Smith had the following to say about their latest release: "Infinity Peaking perfectly encapsulates the band we were and the band we are now, that careful balance of shoegaze and electronica. It was written when I was in Malaga, and is the first track I wrote that wasn't in some dingy bedroom. I feel like it captures the location that is reminiscent on The Durutti Column's Hotel of the Lake, 1990.
It's a track that is full of true joy (despite the lyrics) and it was a pleasure to work on in the studio. It's one that we felt we could really get into the experimentation on, especially in the long spanning mid-section. We're always happiest when we're sat on the floor of the studio surrounding the latest pedal we bought, each dying to have a pass on it."
bdrmm Tour Dates
March
6 Wylam Brewery, Newcastle UK
7 The Welly, Hull UK
8 Project House, Leeds UK
9 Queen Margaret Union, Glasgow UK
11 Gorilla, Manchester UK
12 Rescue Rooms, Nottingham UK
13 The Castle & Falcon, Birmingham UK
15 Hove Old Market, Brighton UK
16 Papillon, Southampton UK
18 The Fleece, Bristol UK
19 Electric Ballroom, London UK
22 Club Volta, Cologne GE
23 Säälchen, Berlin GE
25 Bogen F, Zurich SWI
26 Santeria Toscana 31, Milan IT
27 TPO, Bologna IT
29 Trabeno, Paris FR
30 Botanique - Orangerie, Brussels BE
31 Melkweg OZ, Amsterdam NL
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Artist: Young Knives
Track: Cause & Effect
Young Knives have released their new single Cause & Effect, the latest to be taken from forthcoming album Landfill. Cause & Effect follows the album's lead single Dissolution and is characteristically quirky and off kilter, a myriad of bleeping and beating synths, layers of vocals both sung and spoken, and guitar parts which at times adds tension and at others, a twist of funkiness. The pace meanders in keeping with the mind-bending theme of the track.
Lead singer and guitarist Henry Dartnall shares the following: "The central idea behind the lyrics is a bit obscure: I became aware of a few problems with the concept of time that inspired the song. The main problem is that time seems to be kind of illusory. What I mean by that is that anything outside of the present moment is basically just a thought. And the present moment doesn’t seem to pass i.e. it is always the present moment. Cause & Effect is entirely a time-based concept: You do one thing and it makes another thing happen, in time. But if time is an illusion, then what is really happening? It also implies somehow that we can control the world, like we understand how our actions now effect our future.
Musically the track is basically middle-aged white men rapping. At no point in the process have we questioned whether it’s OK for us to rap, it’s just a thing we did: We are pretty much past caring at this point, you just have to launch into these things and see what happens. I am a huge Hip Hop fan like any self-respecting middle aged white man should be so it made sense to give it a whizz. I wrote the lyrics in about 3 hours and recorded them the same day."
Young Knives UK headline tour dates
January
28 - Joiners, Southampton, UK
29 - Strange Brew, Bristol, UK
30 - Underworld, London, UK
31 - The Bullingdon, Oxford, UK
February
1 - Komedia, Brighton, UK - SOLD OUT
4 - Hare & Hounds, Birmingham, UK
5 - Deaf Institute, Manchester, UK
6 - Future Yard, Birkenhead, UK
7 - Brudenell Social Club, Leeds, UK
8 - Hug & Pint, Glasgow, UK - SOLD OUT
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