THE BATTLES OF WINTER
New Single and Video Release
"Love's White Thread"
With a successful debut album 'Standing At The Floodgates' - various live shows, and a growing fan base - the band heard the calling for a new album.
Love's White Thread is the first release from the forthcoming album 'At Once With Tattered Sails' and finds the band reflecting on voices and faces long since passed, fragments of memory and "feelings thought lost". A military drumbeat sits atop an almost Stereolab-like repetitive bass line before both are usurped by lead singer Alistair Gale's deadpan vocal. The real show stopping moment however comes in the form of Lucas Manley's howling guitar as the song's third act erupts and then collapses in a heap of noise.
At Once With Tattered Sails is the follow up to Standing At The Floodgates, the debut album released to critical acclaim in 2014. Where Standing At The Floodgates beat down your door to show off it's muscles, At Once With Tattered Sails by contrast is a more menacing, covert and underhand affair. From the harmonising feedback and resilient drums of the opening track, through to the epic album closer there is a dark underbelly where voices quiver and guitars squall.
At Once With Tattered Sails was recorded through 2015 at Hackney Road Studios with Steve Honest and will be released in August 2016.
GENRE: Post-punk/Alternative/Indie/Rock
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