This record was recorded in one take at Parr St. “These songs, these arrangements, became our way of getting back to our audience and once again revelling in the communion that we feel when we play on stage. The whole thing became a project of ours, and we gradually began increasing the depth of the pieces by bringing in keys and other various parts. Musically, it’s the most enjoyment I’ve ever gotten out of playing a collection of songs. “We played a few shows at a local hotspot for the modern beatniks of Manchester called the Rose & Monkey Hotel. “When everything went to shit with the Covid pandemic, we realised that if we wanted to continue playing live shows we’d have to drastically change the sound and really roll down the amps,” lead singer Thomas Haywood explains.
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The project evolved from a series of stripped-back shows, the band falling in love with their new-found approach and finding themselves wanting to dive into their music and explore its sonic depth via additional instrumentation and experimentation.
The Lounge Lizard Sessions is a collection of rearranged compositions more suited to socially distanced and intimate performances. Pre-orders of the album via the band’s official website will gain exclusive access to The Lounge Lizard live-stream taking place on July 24 th. Limited to just 500 copies on CD and 500 on vinyl, it will arrive a little over a year since the release of their critically acclaimed album Fantasies Of A Stay At Home Psychopath and features reimagined songs from the record alongside other favourites from their catalogue. The Blinders have announced a brand new live album – The Lounge Lizard Sessions – out July 23 rd via Modern Sky. “‘Fantasies Of A Stay At Home Psychopath’ is an essential document and soundtrack for these quite frankly dystopian times. “drowsy post-punk, marrying the grimmest of Joy Division with Bad Seeds”
“one of this country’s greatest rising bands… the sound of our times” “brooding post-punk… a fusion of IDLES and Nick Cave”
The four onboard arpeggiators can interact with Wave Sequences for even more possibilities.“The band incorporate influences from the likes of IDLES and solo-era John Lennon… a particularly penetrating, bruising listen” The result is organic, ever-changing sounds that respond to your control. Finally, individual steps can be randomly skipped, with a modulatable probability from 0 to 100%. Lanes can also randomize the step order every time they play, with realtime control over the range of included steps. Each note in a chord can be playing something different!
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You can modulate each Lane’s start, end, and loop points separately for every note, using velocity, LFOs, envelopes, Mod Knobs, or other controllers.
For instance, a sample may be matched with a different duration, pitch, shape, gate length, and step sequence value every time that it plays. Each of these is a “Lane,” and each Lane can have a different number of steps and its own start, end, and loop points.Įvery time the sequence moves forward, the individual Lanes are combined to create the output. Also added are new characteristics including shapes, gate times, and step sequencer values. Wave Sequencing 2.0 splits apart the timing, the sequence of samples, and the melody, so that each can be manipulated independently. What if they could evolve in organic, unexpected ways, instead of just repeating? This created ear-catching patterns–but the patterns repeated the same way, over and over. With the Wavestation, each step of a Wave Sequence had a duration, a sample, and a pitch.