Gnoomes have unveiled the second single from their forthcoming album. The title track, 'Losey', finds the band filtering industrial-tinged electronic body music through their immersive, star-gazing sonic prism – resulting in a hypnotic blend of cosmic textures and immersive psychedelia.
Watch the video made by Gnoome's Masha Piankova above.
This is what she says about the video:
“I wanted the visuals to become an extension of the song’s emotional movement. It’s that strange threshold before sleep, when your brain is completely overloaded and reality begins to slip. The subconscious doesn’t discriminate: hallucinations, memories, nightmares, impossible landscapes, euphoric dance scenes, and dreams that blur the line between fear and desire all end up in the same room, dancing together until morning.
That’s how the video was born. It’s basically a glimpse inside my sleepless brain.”
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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.
See Gnoomes live:
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
11 Nov / UK / Bristol / The Lanes
12 Nov / UK / Northampton / The Black Prince
13 Nov / UK / London / Strongroom Bar
20 Nov / DE / Berlin / Arkaoda
With more shows to be announced.
