New Bodies

by Tangents

Following a year of touring plus the release of their teaser EP Stents + Arteries, Tangents bring you New Bodies. The Sydney-based band, know for “post everything” experimentations, continue to deliver their self proclaimed aesthetic of countless varieties of electronics, rock, dub, noise, and free improv jazz.

In the year between their first LP Stateless, Tangents’ debut for the revered US label Temporary Residence and the recording session that laid the foundation for what would become the new album, the band - longtime friends and fans of each other’s work - performed together intensively, becoming an intuitive unit of musical creativity.

New Bodies sees Tangents marrying their cut-up electronic tendencies comprehensively with the organic-electric, freeform improvisatory space-rock of their live performances. Where Stateless was born from a series of individual recording sessions and an intensive post-production process, most of New Bodies was sourced from a single day recording at Sydney’s Free Energy Device Studios with engineer Richard Belkner, with all four instrumentalists in separate spaces playing live together - spontaneously composing. From there, likely passages were chosen through group and individual listening, and various members began the work of shaping these recordings.

New Bodies is Tangents’ statement of intent: to explore the cosmos of musical possibility.

FEATURED TRACKS

Emily Wurramara - 'Lady Blue'

Loose Tooth - 'Keep On'

Leon Vynehall - 'English Oak (Chapter VII)'

Dylan Carlson - 'Scorpions in their Mouths'

Suzanne Ciani - 'LIVE Quadraphonic'

Monkey Marc - 'Yaad and Abraad'

Deaf Wish - 'FFS'

Shepparton Airplane - 'No Prize'

Benjamin Damage - 'Malfunction'

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