sure, please., the newly introduced album from Los Angeles duo, Sextile can be out Might 2nd on Sacred Bones. Pre-order HERE.
At present on a mammoth US tour with label-mates Molchat Doma, Sextile announce their new album with the only Freak Eyes, which pushes their darkish, pulsing signature sound to new heights. Celebrated for an unflinching, digital punk sound, it opens with a nasty bass growl, abruptly giving approach to a techno beat peppered with clanging cowbell and sharp hi-hat. ”I really feel the stress / Man the stress I really feel once we’re collectively,” vocalist Brady Keehn cooly, albeit firmly yell-sings within the opening strains. Impressed by how stress can provoke challenges and enchancment alike, Freak Eyes conjures electrifying photographs of seedy Sundown Strip backrooms and leather-clad warehouse dance flooring.
”Freak Eyes is in regards to the pressures of creating artwork, residing, and aspiring. The sound was impressed by home events we went to in NY the place sure tracks we felt had that conversation- stopping energy. If you happen to had been in the course of a convo with a buddy and heard sure songs, it didn’t matter what you had been speaking about, you stopped and joined the celebration within the collective launch of emotion, singing, dancing, and drinks flying all over the place,” Brady Keehn explains. ”It was like in that second, nothing else mattered however that power that all of us collectively felt. And I felt like I hadn’t seen that at a celebration, or wherever shortly, and wished to attempt to convey that feeling again into the world once more.”
”A number of months in the past I heard an early model of the album at Brady’s place, I used to be floored. We talked about perhaps collaborating on one thing again then and that’s how the idea started. Quick ahead to December and our schedules virtually didn’t align to make the video for Freak Eyes, we fast-tracked manufacturing and shot the video a day earlier than I flew to Paris, shortly after that the band was heading on tour till March,” director Alfredo Lopez shares on the accompanying video. “The whole lot fortunately got here collectively and we determined to shoot this video with classic lenses, subconsciously I used to be pulling from Darius Khondji’s late 90s to early 2000s capturing type when narrowing down the look. A lot of the post-production for the music video was performed in Paris and by the point I got here again to LA we virtually had image lock. Through the enhancing course of, I used to be repeatedly listening to the brand new album whereas strolling the Paris streets and taking the Metro, I actually linked to it on these prolonged walks and I genuinely really feel it’s their greatest work.”
”A number of months in the past I heard an early model of the album at Brady’s place, I used to be floored. We talked about perhaps collaborating on one thing again then and that’s how the idea started. Quick ahead to December and our schedules virtually didn’t align to make the video for Freak Eyes, we fast-tracked manufacturing and shot the video a day earlier than I flew to Paris, shortly after that the band was heading on tour till March,” director Alfredo Lopez shares on the accompanying video. ”The whole lot fortunately got here collectively and we determined to shoot this video with classic lenses, subconsciously I used to be pulling from Darius Khondji’s late 90s-early 2000s capturing type when narrowing down the look. A lot of the post-production for the music video was performed in Paris and by the point I got here again to LA we virtually had image lock. Through the enhancing course of, I used to be repeatedly listening to the brand new album whereas strolling the Paris streets and taking the Metro, I actually linked to it on these prolonged walks and I genuinely really feel it’s their greatest
work.”
Some bands discover their groove and keep on with it whereas others select to reinvent themselves and carry on transferring. Sextile can attest to the fun of an ever-changing highway map. The LA duo comprising Melissa Scaduto and Brady Keehn ply their commerce with a lust for all times and a love of the whole lot from no wave to hardstyle, having merged a few of these influences on their hanging 2023 debut for Sacred Bones, Push.
The group’s new LP, sure, please., fuses anarchic electro hearth with uncooked private recollections —and sufficient beefed-up bass to bust a speaker or two. sure, please. is an album of contrasts: a weak file that bares its soul as a lot because it revels in extra, exhibiting simply how far you’ll be able to push your sound while you shake off your inhibitions. Collectively, the pair betray a confidence that by no means wavers, making a daring splash on the speedy intro with a rave siren minimize from a ‘00s New York home celebration. sure, please. is an action-packed dance file filled with wild, heady roof-raisers however is in the identical breath a testomony to residing, and by no means trying again.
Try the video to steer single, Freak Eyes under –
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UK Tour Dates –
Might 23 – Large Awake Competition, London, UK
Might 24 – Dot to Dot Competition, Bristol, UK
Might 25 – Dot to Dot Competition, Nottingham, UK
Might 27 – Stereo, Glasgow, UK
Might 28 – White Resort, Manchester, UK
Might 29 – Tough Commerce East Instore, London, UK
Might 30 – Mud, Brighton, UK
Might 31 – Hare & Hounds, Birmingham, UK
Jun 01 – The place Else?, Margate, UK
sure, please. tracklist –
1. Intro
2. Girls Reply to Bass
3. Freak Eyes – video
4. Penny Rose
5. Push Ups
6. Children
7. 99 Bongos
8. S is For
9. Rearrange
10. Resist
11. Kiss
12. Hospital
13. Soggy Newports
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