Arriving in direction of the tip of an in depth EU tour alongside And So I Watch You From Afar and Robocobra Quartet, Bristol’s SCALER return with Damaged Entry, their first new music since their 2023 double A-side Daniel Avery-produced single Loam / New Symbols. The monitor follows the band’s current signing to tastemaker label Black Acre (residence to Commodo, Sully, Karen Nyame KG, Waldo’s Reward, Crimewave, and extra). Hearken to Damaged Entry HERE.
Having shaped in 2017 with a want to pair their hometown’s visionary, off-kilter dance music to the extra natural instrumentation you would possibly discover within the metropolis’s burgeoning, heavy avant-garde scene, SCALER have since gained all method of plaudits at radio, press and thru fervent word-of-mouth for each their eclecticism on document and for the pummelling depth of their stay performances, which have seen them play in every single place from Glastonbury to a packed-out headline slot at ArcTanGent, in addition to performances at Boomtown, Inexperienced Man, Finish Of The Highway, ADE, Nuits Sonores, and plenty of extra.
Having already launched a debut album, Void, to widespread acclaim (together with finish of yr mentions from Bleep, Tough Commerce, and extra) – the band have already discovered followers in everybody from Mogwai to Squid, Object Blue, Laurel Halo, and plenty of extra, who’ve all given them the remix remedy. On this vein, the newest double single launch noticed SCALER lean additional into their dance-based influences, incomes a spot on the BBC Radio 6 Music playlist for his or her heady mixture of uncompromising industrial percussion, throbbing bass, glitchy leftfield samples, and colossal synth traces.
Damaged Entry sees the band push additional into this membership mobilising sound, merging sinister synths with driving rhythmic bass and frenetic beats, earlier than mutating right into a crushing nu-metal tinged breakdown part. Recorded by Alfie-Tyson-Brown (one time member of SCALER’s stay band) at The Louisiana, and combined by long-time collaborator Sean Oakley (Kae Tempest, Frank Ocean, James Blake, Black Sabbath), the monitor is as a lot a nod to the euphoric, chest-beating name of the dancefloor as it’s the frenzied vitality of the circle pit.
”After a yr spent locked away in numerous windowless rooms,” the band states. ”Damaged Entry is our first providing from the subsequent period of SCALER. We needed to blow the cobwebs off earlier than we present you what we’ve been as much as.”
Because the band come to the tip of their present tour, Damaged Entry is a signifier of what lies forward for SCALER. ”Is there a greater technique to announce our return to creating data than signing our favorite Bristol band?” Black Acre founder Ian Service provider says. ”SCALER have been a part of our lives as followers for years, so it’s an honour to welcome them to the Black Acre household. The band has at all times defied style, however this new materials ups the ante with sheer ambition, and we’re hyped to work on a mission with no ceiling.”
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