Young Knives have announced details of their new studio album, 'Sick Octave', as well as dates for a winter UK tour.
Speaking about the new Kickstarter-funded full length, the band said: "We’ve just made this album called Sick Octave. It’s our fourth studio album and it’s the best album we’ve ever made. It is of course only a matter of opinion, but that is our opinion. Sick Octave is a fully self-produced, self- recorded album that is a totally free and unbridled expression of our love of music and music-making. It’s as DIY and as filthy as we could make it. We wanted to make something dark and industrial, and a bit crass but with a sprinkling of pretty shit. We didn’t go for producers or high-end studios, we just started recording the stuff that made us excited.
"It’s a lot rawer than our first three albums. We were keen to experiment with the freedom and creativity that computers offer and then mix that up with live sounds and field recordings. We built our own drums out of junk and sheet metal, and made our own synths and pedals. We spent hours messing around with sounds, nicking stuff off YouTube and recording in a disused airbase hanger."
The trio recently unveiled album track Something Awful, describing it as 'a mix of all different musical styles that we like. It’s got bits from Silver Apples, Bowie, Major Lazer, Led Zeppelin all mixed together.'
Speaking about the song, the band revealed: "My grandpa’s Alzheimer’s inspired the lyrics, but I used that real experience to inform something more vaguely about metamorphosis. It’s also about changing into some kind of super killer monster." Check it out for yourself, below.
Young Knives will take the album on the road this November for what will be their first tour since 2011. For the new dates the trio plan to put together a "real live experience", performing 'Sick Octave' in its entirety as well as a stripped-back set of older tracks.
"We are taking the album on the road in November for our first tour since 2011, but we didn’t want to just rock up and play some songs and then go home. We wanted to put together a real live experience. Not like Pink Floyd’s The Wall, not so many lasers, but something that has an element of theatre.
"The Sick Octave show is a total performance of the record from beginning to end, with set pieces, homemade instruments and dancing, all mixed together with a blast of spectacle.
"The last third of the show will be a stripped-back set of our old stuff because we are not wankers."
Young Knives UK & Ireland Tour Dates are as follows
Sat October 26th 2013 - OXFORD The Cellar (Special pre-tour show)
Tue November 5th 2013 - GLASGOW O2 ABC Glasgow
Wed November 6th 2013 - BIRMINGHAM O2 Academy Birmingham
Thu November 7th 2013 - CARDIFF Clwb Ifor Bach
Fri November 8th 2013 - LONDON O2 Academy Islington
Sat November 9th 2013 - SOUTHAMPTON Joiners
Sun November 10th 2013 - ST ALBANS Horn @ St Albans
Tue November 12th 2013 - NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE O2 Academy Newcastle
Wed November 13th 2013 - SHEFFIELD O2 Academy Sheffield
Thu November 14th 2013 - LIVERPOOL O2 Academy Liverpool
Tue November 19th 2013 - MANCHESTER Sound Control
Wed November 20th 2013 - HEBDEN BRIDGE Trades Club
Sat November 23rd 2013 - BEDFORD Esquires
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