Yorkshire feral garage-punk band Avalanche Party announce the release of their forthcoming album Der Traum Uber Alles on 7th February 2025 via AMK, Kartel Music Group’s alternative music imprint. Recorded at the hallowed Rancho De La Luna Studio in California’s Joshua Tree with Dave Catching, the LP promises to retain a wild and animalistic essence. The record’s first half in particular feels like a sonic exorcism: a 21st century occult primal scream that shifts from the frenzied New Wave of ‘Nureyev Said it Best’ and ‘Shake the Slack’ to the exhilarating war-drum deliverance of ‘Serious Dance Music’ and ‘Collateral Damage’. The band release new single ‘John Coltrane’s Moscow Skyscraper’. Vocalist Jordan Bell comments on the single:
“This is full of that caged spirit of wanting to be let off the leash. Take half the strings off your guitar, tune the ones remaining to the same note, play them one after the other, rhythmically. You have a song. There was an effort to make music that was more minimal, how simple can you make something that still works? Hold back the noise”.
Formed in 2016, Avalanche Party – Jordan Bell (vocals/guitar), Joe Bell (bass/vocals), Jared Thorpe (guitar/sax/vocals), Glen Adkins (keys) and Kane Waterfield (drums) – have stated “nobody comes from where we come from”. Hailing from different corners of North Yorkshire, the band was put together by the brothers Bell, who were brought up on a farm on the sprawling moors, home-schooled by their parents and initiated into the counterculture by their father Pete, who in the late 1960s was resident bassist at Beckenham Arts Lab, playing alongside Bowie among other South East London radicals. Blitzing together their distinctive styles (Waterfield’s hard-hitting, bouncing-bomb drumming; Thorpe’s expressive avant-rock pyrotechnics; Joe Bell’s athletic basslines; Adkins’ intoxicating synth), Avalanche Party create a noise that blends and twists their individual influences into shapes that defy any neat label.
Forthcoming album Der Traum Über Alles’, was conceived during and after the caged-animal isolation of the COVID-19 pandemic, on an industrial estate in Darlington and down in the basement studio they built in Middlesbrough once restrictions were eased. Decorated with Warholian tinfoil wallpaper, the studio served as a year-long nerve centre for the band while Thorpe and the brothers Bell pieced together their ideas, before a freak flood in September 2022 forced them to flee. For all its urgency, the making of the LP required near-superhuman patience from the band. Recorded in November 2022 with Dave Catching (Queens of the Stone Age, Eagles of Death Metal) at Rancho de la Luna – his beautifully eccentric home studio on the edge of Joshua Tree National Park, California – Avalanche Party were set to be there two years before, but had to wait for the US border to reopen after repeated lockdowns Stateside. Swapping subterranean Teesside for this magical, hazardous desert landscape populated with rattlesnakes, scorpions and cholla cacti, the band recorded ‘Der Traum Über Alles’ in just ten days with Catching as their generous free-spirited pilot, his intimate knowledge of his vintage gear and Thanksgiving cooking sustaining the rapid-fire sessions.
Avalanche Party Live Date
28 December – Adelphi, Hull
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