Yorkshire feral garage-punk band Avalanche Party release new single ‘Shake The Slack’, a commanding, psychedelic-dance track and call to arms. The track features on their forthcoming album Der Traum Uber Alles set for release on 7th February via AMK, Kartel Music Group’s alternative music imprint.
Vocalist Jordan Bell speaks on the track:
“This is about the noble process of taking the slack and shaking it. Whipping that angel delight into shape. The great reckoning cometh. We took a lot of takes in the studio to get it as crisp as possible, lots of slave-driving going on”.
Guitarist Jared Thorpe adds:
“From the birth of the initial idea, this song went around the world four times before it learnt how to speak. It was like a painting that was painted over a hundred times, ripped apart daily for months. It kind of got to the point where it finished itself”.
Avalanche Party have presented morsels from their upcoming album Der Traum Uber Alles in recent months in the form of ‘John Coltrane’s Moscow Skyscraper’, ‘Nureyev Said It Best’ and ‘Collateral Damage’. Recorded at the hallowed Rancho De La Luna Studio in California’s Joshua Tree with Dave Catching, the LP promises a wild and animalistic essence. If you were to sit it down on the psychoanalyst’s couch, its themes of bloodlust, subversion and incineration might suggest a heavy payload of pent-up aggression being detonated. 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’.
To celebrate the album, the band will embark on a string of shows for Independent Music Week in January, alongside a UK headline run in March. In the nearer future, Avalanche Party will headline the Adelphi in Hull in December.
Avalanche Party Live Dates
Headline
December
28 – Adelphi, Hull
Independent Venue Week
January
29 – Forum, Tunbridge Wells
30 – Boiler Room, Guildford
31 – The Black Prince, Northampton
February
1 – Heartbreakers, Southampton
2 – Voodoo Daddys, Norwich
Headline
March
6 – McChuills, Glasgow
7 – Zerox, Newcastle
8 – The Hare & Hounds 2, Birmingham
9 – Polar Bear Music Club, Hull
10 – The Castle Hotel, Manchester
11 – The Social, London
12 – The Edge of The Wedge, Porstmouth
13 – The Horn, St Albans
14 – Sidney & Matilda, Sheffield
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