Photograph courtesy of Paul Heartfield
Danish neo-psychedelic crew Pinkunoizu have announced that they’ll be releasing their new album, The Drop, on August 5 via Full Time Hobby. It follows last month’s Second Amendment EP and we’ve got a first play of album track ‘Great Pacific Garbage Patch’:
The track’s title refers to an oceanic wasteland of debris floating in the north Pacific. It is, in their own words: "a suiting picture for a world doing wrong and – a suiting picture for the sound of this record, which is made up from a rubble of ideas that were mashed together during a very short period of one week of recording and three weeks of dubbing and mixing."
The song, a lush space rock cut, looks likely to be the opening track of the album, with the band describing it as: "taking flight with a tone generator dropping in pitch until it splashes down into the wide blue open. ‘The Great Pacific Garbage Patch’ is meant to function as a descent; a drop that continues all along the record in various ways. Lyrically and sonically we have somehow been drawn towards working with a bending and falling feeling on this album."
The band are setting out on an extensive European tour, kicking off with a set at Glastonbury later this month:
JUNE
Fri 28th – Glastonbury Festival (Williams Green Stage, 2pm)
SEPTEMBER
Fri 27 – Loppen, Copenhagen
Mon 30 – Festaal, Berlin
OCTOBER
Tue 1 – Zoom, Frankfurt
Wed 2 – Ampere, Munich
Thu 3 – Bogen F, Viadukt, Zurich
Sun 6 – Rotonde, Botanique, Brussels
Mon 7 – La Maroquinerie, Paris
Tue 8 – Heaven, London
Fri 11 – Colston Hall, Bristol
Sat 12 – Brewery, Kendal
Sun 13 – Broadcast, Glasgow
Tue 15 – Band On The Wall, Manchester
Wed 16 – South Street Arts, Reading
Thu 17 – The Apex, Bury St Edmunds
Sat 19 – Trades Club, Hebden Bridge
Sun 20 – East Village Arts Club, Liverpool
Mon 21 – The Old Market, Brighton
