2016 sees the return of Brighton’s Fear of Men with Fall Forever: the band’s second full length album, and the follow-up to their acclaimed 2014 debut, Loom. Fall Forever marks a bold departure for the three-piece – comprised of Jessica Weiss, Daniel Falvey and Michael Miles – an album that builds upon the melodicism and immediacy of Loom but takes it in a stark new direction, capturing the band pushing the limits of their instruments to adopt new and alien forms.
After extensively touring in support of Loom, the band decamped in the early months of 2015 to an outbuilding of a disused abattoir in rural Kent, England, to begin work on new material. A two-hour bus ride from their native Brighton – and a blackhole for cell signal – it served as a fitting environment for a band determined to strip their sound back to the bone and rebuild it to make an album that would, on their live return, “make the stage shake.”
The resultant record sees the trio twisting together sounds and influences from a variety of genres to create their own vision of what constitutes dark and modern pop. Working with producer Tom Morris to gain clarity and presence, they focused on core sounds instead of layers, while still incorporating textures and details that can be discovered upon repeat listens.
About Puro Instinct:
Hollywood is a devil of a town. To grow up there is another story altogether, the isolating echoes of hollow dreams howling down your own street—into your home. The avant-pop composers Piper and Skylar Kaplan a.k.a. Puro Instinct pay homage to that Hollywood on their sophomore LP Autodrama out June 24, 2016 on Manifesto Records. They will be touring with Fear of Men just after the album’s release.
Autodrama is defiant, bittersweet, strong, otherworldly, and perhaps the most surprising album of 2016. The sights and sounds are but a spec of time, yet the dream is forever. The quest is eternal.
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After extensively touring in support of Loom, the band decamped in the early months of 2015 to an outbuilding of a disused abattoir in rural Kent, England, to begin work on new material. A two-hour bus ride from their native Brighton – and a blackhole for cell signal – it served as a fitting environment for a band determined to strip their sound back to the bone and rebuild it to make an album that would, on their live return, “make the stage shake.”
The resultant record sees the trio twisting together sounds and influences from a variety of genres to create their own vision of what constitutes dark and modern pop. Working with producer Tom Morris to gain clarity and presence, they focused on core sounds instead of layers, while still incorporating textures and details that can be discovered upon repeat listens.
About Puro Instinct:
Hollywood is a devil of a town. To grow up there is another story altogether, the isolating echoes of hollow dreams howling down your own street—into your home. The avant-pop composers Piper and Skylar Kaplan a.k.a. Puro Instinct pay homage to that Hollywood on their sophomore LP Autodrama out June 24, 2016 on Manifesto Records. They will be touring with Fear of Men just after the album’s release.
Autodrama is defiant, bittersweet, strong, otherworldly, and perhaps the most surprising album of 2016. The sights and sounds are but a spec of time, yet the dream is forever. The quest is eternal.
2016 sees the return of Brighton’s Fear of Men with Fall Forever: the band’s second full length album, and the follow-up to their acclaimed 2014 debut, Loom. Fall Forever marks a bold departure for the three-piece – comprised of Jessica Weiss, Daniel Falvey and Michael Miles – an album that builds upon the melodicism and immediacy of Loom but takes it in a stark new direction, capturing the band pushing the limits of their instruments to adopt new and alien forms.
After extensively touring in support of Loom, the band decamped in the early months of 2015 to an outbuilding of a disused abattoir in rural Kent, England, to begin work on new material. A two-hour bus ride from their native Brighton – and a blackhole for cell signal – it served as a fitting environment for a band determined to strip their sound back to the bone and rebuild it to make an album that would, on their live return, “make the stage shake.”
The resultant record sees the trio twisting together sounds and influences from a variety of genres to create their own vision of what constitutes dark and modern pop. Working with producer Tom Morris to gain clarity and presence, they focused on core sounds instead of layers, while still incorporating textures and details that can be discovered upon repeat listens.
About Puro Instinct:
Hollywood is a devil of a town. To grow up there is another story altogether, the isolating echoes of hollow dreams howling down your own street—into your home. The avant-pop composers Piper and Skylar Kaplan a.k.a. Puro Instinct pay homage to that Hollywood on their sophomore LP Autodrama out June 24, 2016 on Manifesto Records. They will be touring with Fear of Men just after the album’s release.
Autodrama is defiant, bittersweet, strong, otherworldly, and perhaps the most surprising album of 2016. The sights and sounds are but a spec of time, yet the dream is forever. The quest is eternal.
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After extensively touring in support of Loom, the band decamped in the early months of 2015 to an outbuilding of a disused abattoir in rural Kent, England, to begin work on new material. A two-hour bus ride from their native Brighton – and a blackhole for cell signal – it served as a fitting environment for a band determined to strip their sound back to the bone and rebuild it to make an album that would, on their live return, “make the stage shake.”
The resultant record sees the trio twisting together sounds and influences from a variety of genres to create their own vision of what constitutes dark and modern pop. Working with producer Tom Morris to gain clarity and presence, they focused on core sounds instead of layers, while still incorporating textures and details that can be discovered upon repeat listens.
About Puro Instinct:
Hollywood is a devil of a town. To grow up there is another story altogether, the isolating echoes of hollow dreams howling down your own street—into your home. The avant-pop composers Piper and Skylar Kaplan a.k.a. Puro Instinct pay homage to that Hollywood on their sophomore LP Autodrama out June 24, 2016 on Manifesto Records. They will be touring with Fear of Men just after the album’s release.
Autodrama is defiant, bittersweet, strong, otherworldly, and perhaps the most surprising album of 2016. The sights and sounds are but a spec of time, yet the dream is forever. The quest is eternal.
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