Listen to a new song from Collapsing Scenery
Collapsing Scenery have shared their new single “Deep State”, which You can listen to and share below. The band also announces new tour dates in support of the release, including a free show this Thursday at Non Plus Ultra in Los Angeles with The Big Pink and Charles.
Collapsing Scenery’s music and creative process represent the world as the band wishes the world were: playful, polyglot, intense, committed, politically engaged, free, open, and without boundaries or hierarchies.
C.S. formed in the autumn of 2013, under a pall of paranoia and disgust, as predator missiles rained on Middle Eastern heads and each day brought news of further surveillance of innocents and more aggressive pursuit of those who had the nerve to inform us about it. Against this backdrop, erstwhile collaborators Don De Vore and Reggie Debris put aside the stringed instruments on which they’d first learned to play music and on which they were comfortable and versed, and assembled an impressive pile of analog electronics: samplers, step sequencers, synths and drum machines, all supplemented by effects pedals usually applied to guitars.
From the largely improvised sessions, many accompanied by drummer Ryan Rapsys, the seeds of songs began their germination. Lyrics that Debris had been amassing over years of political rage and frustration began to find their homes when paired with ad-libbed instrumentals. Melodies and cadences alchemically emerged as the words settled into their natural rhythmic patterns.
These elements create dizzying music that by turns touches on punk, industrial, techno, hip-hop, free jazz, soul, disco, folk balladry, and whatever other spirits happen to inhabit the recording studio at any given moment.
Collapsing Scenery’s Deep State 7″ is out April 22nd via Metropolitan Indian.
TOUR DATES
4.21 – Los Angeles, CA – Non Plus Ultra w/ The Big Pink
5.13 – New York, NY – TBA
5.18 – Los Angeles, CA – The Roxy w/ Phases
5.20 – Los Angeles, CA – Blind Spot Project w/ Tamaryn
5.25 – Los Angeles, CA – Out Of Order – Terrible Records Night
6.9 – Paris, FR – Le Bain
6.20 – London, UK – Old Blue Last w/ Casual Sect
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