Gnoomes have just dropped an impressive third single from their forthcoming album, 'Losey'.
'Shakshuka and Pie' perfectly marries fuzzed-out guitars, tribal rhythms, acid-house repetition and shoegaze-pop, creating a unique sound that only Gnoomes could conjure up.
Watch the video made by Gnoomes's Masha Piankova via this link above.
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'Losey' is released on 4 September, but you can preorder the album now on 'Green Grass' vinyl via the link below, or on 'Slate Grey' vinyl from all good record shops:
https://rocketrecordings.com/products/losey
'Losey' – a kaleidoscopic collision of styles which sends the ‘skygazing’ realm of their previous work spinning into electronic orbit. Here wildly disparate influences coalesce with the duo’s quest for new frontiers, thus whilst the opener ‘Foreign Agent’ explicitly tackles the pressures of the Russian state, it also throws a Stereolab-style motorik meditation through an in-the-red psychedelic prism, Elsewhere we can behold Bulgakov and Joy Division as bedfellows amidst the mesmeric, 303-fried EBM of ‘Satan’s Ball’.
Meanwhile, heavy and perhaps unlikely influence came from Paul McCartney (whose melodic nous influenced the ‘dada pop daydream’ of ‘Shakshuka And Pie’ just as his post-Beatles farm-based solitude helped inspire the band’s process) not to mention Chris & Cosey, whose music informed the crepuscular acid stomp of the title track, not to mention the album title itself..
“Rave as therapy. Pop as resistance. Love as endurance. ADHD as a production technique.”
These are the primary ingredients of 'Losey', by the reckoning of the band themselves. This is an album that exists purely on its own distinct frequency, driven by defiance and positivity.
Gnoomes have added a Todmorden show to their tour – with more dates still to be added:
10 Sep / SI / Ljubljana / Channel Zero
16 Oct / HU / Budapest / Niche
23 Oct / IT / Padova / Nadir
24 Oct / IT / Bologna / Bauhaus
30 Oct / UK / Norwich / The Holloway
03 Nov / UK / Sheffield / Delicious Clam
05 Nov / UK / Newcastle / Lubber Fiend
09 Nov / UK / Todmorden / Golden Lion
11 Nov / UK / Bristol / The Lanes
12 Nov / UK / Northampton / The Black Prince
13 Nov / UK / London / Strongroom Bar
20 Nov / DE / Berlin / Arkaoda