Kevin Martin’s King Midas Sound project recently announced that they’ve signed to Ninja Tune, the home of Martin’s long-running doom-dancehall project The Bug, for the upcoming release of their second album. In advance of the album, whose details are still to be announced, Ninja are set to release a 12" containing two new tracks on Record Store Day, 20th April. The lead track is titled ‘Aroo’, and it’s the most direct and pop-friendly track we’ve heard from the group to date, putting their tectonic dynamics to the service of a structured song. We’re pleased to be able to offer you the first view of the video for ‘Aroo’ – watch it via the embed above. The track is paired with a rather more downbeat B-side, entitled ‘Funny Love’.
This 12" will contain the group’s first new material since 2009’s Waiting For You, a generally introspective affair that found vocalists Kiki Hitomi and Roger Robinson trading lines amid pulsing sub-bass and frosty washes of synthetic fog. In the time since, they’ve established themselves as one of the Quietus’ favourite live bands – of last year’s show at Tilburg’s Incubate Festival, we wrote "in the years since [the release of their debut], their live incarnation has undergone a Hulk-style bodyshock, blasted with radiation until its muscles swell to near-bursting point and the sonic overspill from the stage hits the audience as wave upon wave of toxic particulate matter. Tonight, they absolutely shred."
