Avalanche Party shares new single “Shake The Slack.” The track is off their forthcoming album ‘Der Traum Uber Alles’ available February 7th via AMK. Vocalist Jordan Bell speaks on the track, “This is about the noble process of taking the slack and shaking it. Whipping that angel delight into shape. The great reckoning cometh. We took a lot of takes in the studio to get it as crisp as possible, lots of slave-driving going on”. Guitarist Jared Thorpe adds, “From the birth of the initial idea, this song went around the world four times before it learnt how to speak. It was like a painting that was painted over a hundred times, ripped apart daily for months. It kind of got to the point where it finished itself”.

Der Traum Uber Alles was recorded at the hallowed Rancho De La Luna Studio in California’s Joshua Tree with Dave Catching, the LP retains a wild and animalistic essence. If you were to sit it down on the psychoanalyst’s couch, its themes of bloodlust, subversion and incineration might suggest a heavy payload of pent-up aggression being detonated. The record’s first half in particular feels like a sonic exorcism: a 21st century occult primal scream that shifts from the frenzied New Wave of ‘Nureyev Said it Best’ and ‘Shake the Slack’ to the exhilarating war-drum deliverance of ‘Serious Dance Music’ and ‘Collateral Damage’.

Avalanche Party, includes Jordan Bell (vocals/guitar), Joe Bell (bass/vocals), Jared Thorpe (guitar/sax/vocals), Glen Adkins (keys) and Kane Waterfield (drums) – have stated “nobody comes from where we come from”. Hailing from different corners of North Yorkshire, the band was put together by the brothers Bell, who were brought up on a farm on the sprawling moors, home-schooled by their parents and initiated into the counterculture by their father Pete, who in the late 1960s was resident bassist at Beckenham Arts Lab, playing alongside Bowie among other South East London radicals.

The band will embark on a string of shows for Independent Music Week in January, alongside a UK headline run in March. In the nearer future, Avalanche Party will headline the Adelphi in Hull in December. Full dates are:

Avalanche Party 2024-2025 Tour Dates

28 Dec – Adelphi, Hull (UK)
29 Jan – Forum, Tunbridge Wells (UK)
30 Jan – Boiler Room, Guildford (UK)
31 Jan – The Black Prince, Northampton (UK)
1 Feb – Heartbreakers, Southampton (UK)
2 Feb – Voodoo Daddys, Norwich (UK)
6 Mar – McChuills, Glasgow (UK)
7 Mar – Zerox, Newcastle (UK)
8 Mar – The Hare & Hounds 2, Birmingham (UK)
9 Mar – Polar Bear Music Club, Hull (UK)
10 Mar – The Castle Hotel, Manchester (UK)
11 Mar – The Social, London (UK)
12 Mar – The Edge of The Wedge, Porstmouth (UK)
13 Mar – The Horn, St Albans (UK)
14 Mar – Sidney & Matilda, Sheffield (UK)

Avalache Party
Der Traum Uber Alles
Tracklist

1. John Coltrane’s Moscow Skyscraper
2. Nureyev Said It Best
3. No Neutral
4. Shake The Slack
5. Ecstasy
6. Serious Dance Music
7. The Noise Between Us
8. Slinky
9. Chainz
10. Target
11. Collateral Damage

Pre-order Der Traum Uber Alles HERE