– Share first new music in 8 years
If you want something a bit more challenging than ‘verse chorus verse chorus chorus fade’ then give this a listen. Starting off with what sounds like a viking horn of arrival, not that I’ve actually heard a viking horn, it melds into a gorgeous listen. In fact, you might find you have to play 3 or 4 times straight off. It’s cool, let’s hope there is an album on the way. Too greedy? Naaa.
Credit Tash Cutts & Samuel Travis
Today, Leeds-based experimental four-piece Adult Jazz announce “Dusk Song”, their first new music in eight years, an ululation of grief that settles somewhere in the thicket between their debut album Gist Is and follow up EP Earrings Off. The band have also announced they will play a London show at ICA on 24th October.
Singer Harry Burgess’s Meredith Monk-like vocalisations seed and spiral around Tim Slater’s brass drones. “It’s loosely about slowness and panic coexisting,” explains Burgess, “and not really being able to comprehend those paces alongside each other when it comes to how to respond to the climate crisis.” As an image evoked, it’s bare hands frantically shovelling dirt, searching uselessly for questions/answers, a headtorch, the overgrowth. It’s a song that bears a cloying, sickening melancholy. The band, a creature caught in the searchlight, startled and comprehending.
On the visuals, Burgess added “I shot the video with my cousin in a river on boxing day 2022, after a day of festive comfort. It was freezing. We were both in the river and there had been a lot of rain. We had the alarm/flash setting on a camping light and we filmed in slow mo in one take. He is wearing these lorry inner tubes across him like a tunic – something Tim came up with on a stag do no less, and has stuck visually – and a cowl I got from Etsy.”
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