TOMORROWD - Streaming NOW
Hey there, friends.
It's us again, your favourite obscure instrumental band, coming to you live from the slowly sinking, rainy climes of Northern England.
We're happy to announce that today sees the release-to-streaming of the second Wreckage Systems EP - Tomorrowd.
Tomorrowd, like all four of these EPs, is another construct from those bleak and hazy pandemic years. Originally released May 2021, these songs were written remotely and asynchronously. Lean, dry WAV files of drum recordings would flutter along giant, rusted copper wires that connect Sheffield to Berlin for processing, then be sent back the other way with a bit too much reverb added.
Trapped in our imaginations and determined not to look too closely at reality, these recordings were us making the soundtrack to a film that has not yet been made. Or perhaps the soundtrack to those moments in the mornings when the weight of existing in 2021 after having already existed through 2020 would hit us all over again.
Or perhaps it is not as bleak as all that. Perhaps Tomorrowd is a bundle of restless energy and kick drums. A coiled spring of radio interference and feedback. Perhaps it is the sound of a matte black rock the size of a city, its sides impossibly smooth, emerging from the ocean in the middle of the night.
Have a listen and decide for yourself, and then why not write to your MP and let them know what you think of it.
Here's the tracklist:
Tomorrowd - Severe arpeggio and kick drum comradery, a tale told through rhythms in 11/8. Synths side-chained to oblivion. Utilitarian bass distortion. We couldn't help but flood it with melody and melodrama by the end though.
Staticd Variant - A field recording of a dropped and lonely data packet. Somewhere along the wire it lost too much velocity, fell down into a cold storm of static. A halogen sky scrolls in purple far above. Discovered by a future salvage crew — inheritors of a collapsed world — this delicate piece of information is coaxed back to a kind of flickering life. It lives out its days on a pedestal in a museum of broken messages, communing with the draught in the pale half-light.
TENS - Christopher Nolan: call us! We're much cheaper than Hans Zimmer and at least twice as loud.
Noised Variant - The kind of sadness that isn't saddening. A rare, bittersweet, beauty. How far it reaches into your heart depends on how much you desire the sound of broken noise collapsing in on itself.
Hidden+Extra - Sawtooth semaphore. A tiger with synths for teeth, hungry, slinking through dusk-coated tundra. There's a neon light flickering over the horizon. Music undoubtedly intended to serve as a warning, but for what?
Tomorrowd [Ultra] - Outskirts of a city. The scrapes and heaves of an exhausted public transport infrastructure give way to the cold night time logistics of capital. A biker gang built from earthquakes and bad dreams howl through the cracked streets. If only plants could grow with the same velocity. All eyes on the wild.
OTHER BUSINESS
- You know how the name of our band came from an unreleased John Carpenter film from the 80s that we saw a bootleg betamax copy of? That film was called Stealth Bomber and it was set in the arctic after some kind of sixty-five-day-long civilisational collapse. The cut we saw was unfinished, with no music. We were like 'wow what would a score to this sound like? Let's start a band to find out!' Well anyway, it turns out that somebody finally asked John Carpenter about his long lost film and he REFUSED to acknowledge its existence. Which is exactly what somebody trying to hide the truth about their long-forgotten, unfinished film would say.
- The Wreckage Systems stream is still streaming. We won't go through the status of that project again — check last month's email for more info if you want — but the main thing is that there is a NEW CHEAPER TIER that gives you access to the entire Wreckage Systems archive, which is not inconsiderable.
- The Utopian Frequencies & Disquiet vinyl is just about still available, as well as the Utopian Frequencies t-shirt.
- Next month will be the third and penultimate Wreckage Systems EP and, indeed, the penultimate release in this series of old-things-new-to-streaming. It is called Available Data and it demands volume and dancing shoes. If you simply cannot wait until 2025 to leap around with free abandon to sublime 90s-tinged electronica, then you can skip ahead by finding it on our Bandcamp right now. Or you could sign up to the 65LABS patreon and find it there instead.
- A reminder that there is a 65daysofstatic Discord server should you want to chat about sawtooth waveforms, dialectical materialism, memes, video games, VSTs or really pretty much anything with other friendly people. You can find that here: https://discord.gg/FdfeZbY
Ok, that's it for now. Enjoy Tomorrowd.
Thanks again for all your support.
65.x
