Photo: credit Bowen Stead
Austin TX via Montreal psychedelic supergroup MIEN have shared a third look at their forthcoming album ‘MIIEN’, out April 18th via Fuzz Club. The album release comes just ahead of UK and mainland European live dates this Spring – dates below.
Born of a desire to collaborate between some of the finest minds in psychedelic music, MIEN’s current line-up is Alex Maas (The Black Angels), Rishi Dhir (Elephant Stone), John-Mark Lapham (The Earlies) and Robb Kidd (Golden Dawn Arkestra). However, this latest track found its roots with previous band member Tom Furse (The Horrors) and was finished by Thor Harris (Swans).
“Silent Golden is a song that was birthed by our former bandmate, Tom Furse” the band comment. “It had been knocking around as an instrumental demo for quite some time prior to our album 2 sessions. We all could hear great potential in it as a MIEN track, but weren’t sure where it was going to go or how we’d get it there. As is often the case, we wanted to get it to a place where it sparked something for Alex to dream up a vocal for it. To add to Tom’s demo, we recorded some thunderous drums and a bassline that gave it a new groove. Alex recorded some surprisingly sweet vocals and a gentle acoustic guitar part that brought it home. The last piece to fall in place was bringing in Thor Harris to record some of his signature clarinet and percussion.
MIEN live dates:
28.04 Kola – Portsmouth, UK
29.04 The Attic – Leeds, UK
30.04 YES Basement – Manchester, UK
02.05 Where Else? – Margate, UK
03.05 Hope & Ruin – Brighton, UK
04.05 Moth Club – London, UK
07.05 Supersonic – Paris, FR
10.05 Fuzz Club Festival – Eindhoven, NL
11.05 Import Export – Munich, DE
13.05 Kantine am Berghain – Berlin, DE
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