Smote's latest album 'Songs From The Free House' is released on 17 October – it is their deepest, most fully realised album to date, and we are now pleased to share with you 'Snodgerss', the second track to be revealed from the album.
Watch the visualiser made by Smote's Daniel Foggin above.
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'Songs From The Free House' can be preordered now on 'Black vinyl + A3 poster' from the Rocket shop via the link below. You can also pick-up a ltd edition 'Orange vinyl' from all good record stores.
Continuing Smote's exploratory mission into heaviness in all its forms. 'Songs From The Free House' sees Smote probing a variety of new avenues. Therefore, whilst listeners might align the pantheistic forays into drone-based abandon with previous travellers like Earth and Om, the influence of folk songs and legends, as well as electronic music make their presence felt.
Elsewhere a more melodic vocal based structure is writ large amidst these rites and revelations, particularly on the first track to be revealed 'The Linton Wyrm', which proceeds from devotional chant to a potent conclusion, also inspired by Foggin's everyday surroundings.
Once again Daniel played and sang almost everything on this record (bar guest appearances from Sally Mason of the Smote live band on vocals and Ian Lynch from Lankum on Uillean pipes). But this time 'Songs From The Free House' was recorded at Blank Studios with Sam Grant (Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs) at the controls. This marks a journey from the DIY minimal approach of yore into more widescreen visions without compromising the singular intent within.
'Songs From The Free House' is a transcendental journey where Smote render ancient and modern indivisible. Just as traditional music is passed down through generations, 'Songs from the Free House' is where the primal collides with the eternal.
See Smote live:
17 Oct / Falmouth / KCM Church
18 Oct / Bristol / Down Stokes Festival
19 Oct / Preston / The Ferret
20 Oct / Glasgow / Hug and Pint
23 Oct / London / The Lexington *SOLD OUT*
24 Oct / Derby / Dubrek Studios
26 Oct / Newcastle / The Lubber Fiend
13 Dec / Todmorden / The Golden Lion
13 May / London / The 100 Club