Shimmering psychedelic rock trio Dirty Sound Magnet have shared their new single ‘Lonely Bird’, the third from their upcoming fourth LP, Dreaming In Dystopia (twentieth October, Wild Thing Records).
Watch the stop-motion video for ‘Lonely Bird’ beneath.
In the phrases of the band, all the things within the music video “is handmade and done 100% DIY over the course of three months.” Although demanding a painstaking manufacturing course of, from crocheting the puppets, surroundings, and props, to truly animating every body, the result’s an completely spellbinding visible deal with that retains the monitor’s fantastical symbolism faithfully intact.
As Dirty Sound Magnet, longtime mates and band members Stavros Dzodzos (guitar, vocals), Marco Mottolini (bass, backing vocals), and Maxime Cosandey (drums, backing vocals) have developed a repute as considered one of Europe’s hardest working bands, releasing 4 data (one stay and three studio albums) and performing over 650 mesmerising stay exhibits all through Europe, UK, and Mexico since their inception in 2016.
The band have not too long ago introduced new UK dates, as following:
Even with the onset of a world pandemic, Dirty Sound Magnet remained steadfast on sustaining their repute of tireless inventive output, going so far as to work on two data concurrently. One of these was 2022’s DSM III, which the band cites as a method to “release their wild energy during lockdown”.
The different album is what finally grew to become the upcoming Dreaming In Dystopia, with every of its tracks linked by a standard thread of being showcases of Dirty Sound Magnet‘s most deeply emotional and private examples of songcraft and lyrics up to now.
The band labored carefully within the rehearsal room and began producing this subsequent, extra expansive album proper after the completion of DSM-III. One of the primary songs recorded throughout this roughly two-year course of was this latest single, ‘Lonely Bird’, whose concoction of psychedelic, people, and progressive rock textures would finally present the thematic and stylistic blueprint for the album as a complete.
“All of our previous albums have tender moments but the band is known for its high energy and explosiveness,” says Stavros Dzodzos. “We always loved rock bands that were able to produce albums where the focus was on the songwriting and the emotion rather than on the energy. Think albums like Rubber Soul, Stand Up, Led Zeppelin III, or Strange Days. These are the types of records that were always close to not only my heart but for the rest of the band’s as well.”
Through and thru, ‘Lonely Bird’ performs the a part of a correct prog ballad, framing the breakup narrative at its core across the symbolism of two birds parting methods and altering of the seasons.
This instillation of metaphor imparts the monitor with higher thematic nuance, with its nature-related analogy permitting for Dirty Sound Magnet to discover this subject material throughout a complete spectrum of feelings, depicted within the dreamy twang of reverb-washed guitars, swells of proggy keys accentuating the monitor’s most harmonious moments and Dzodzos‘ yearnful vocals that serve as the emotional anchor of ‘Lonely Bird’.
Dzodzos explains: “I feel {that a} rock band wants some maturity to discover extra intimate emotions and atmospheres, however you additionally want some maturity as a human being to have the ability to categorical emotions authentically. With the three of us having been performing, writing, and recording music collectively for so long as we have now, having the ability to convey these parts on Dreaming In Dystopia as a complete got here very naturally to us, with ‘Lonely Bird’ being a key milestone within the artistic course of.
From then on out, we knew we have been engaged on the album we have now at all times dreamed of creating.
Dreaming In Dystopia is Dirty Sound Magnet‘s fourth LP, and arrives because the band proceed to ascertain themselves as some of the thrilling acts to emerge from Switzerland this century.
Since its founding in 2016, Dirty Sound Magnet have launched three studio recordings, every melding the sounds of rock’s golden age with the genre-agnostic experimentalism of as we speak.
In their time, the trio of Stavros Dzodzos (guitars, lead vocals), Marco Mottolini (bass, backing vocals), and Maxime Cosandey (drums, backing vocals, particular results) have already carried out over 650 exhibits all through Europe, the UK, and Mexico.
Thanks partly to this tireless work ethic and changing into recognized internationally for his or her mesmerizing stay exhibits, Dirty Sound Magnet have, in simply this quick time frame, taken home the 2022 Swiss Live Talents award for ‘Best Swiss Rock Band’ and carried out as assist for varied rock heavyweights together with Wolfmother (AU), Rival Sons (US), and Monster Magnet (US).
While 2023’s Dreaming In Dystopia sits as Dirty Sound Magnet‘s most wonderfully expansive release to date, it also represents the most introspective chapter in the band’s story to this point.
The album sees the trio discover how, regardless of the chaotic nature of the world we stay in, sure issues just like the profound energy of music and self-expression stay fixed. It’s reflective in a means that enables Dirty Sound Magnet to not solely categorical and iterate on their ever-evolving flavour of psychedelic rock but additionally places into perspective simply how far the trio has come as musicians and performers.
Track-list:
01. Melodies from Distant Shores (4:19)
02. Dreaming in Dystopia (3:42)
03. The Tragedy of Men (3:37)
04. Lonely Bird (3:59)
05. Utopia (4:28)
06. Flowers, Angels and Chaos (4:37)
07. Lost My Mind (3:39)
08. Insomnia (8:25)
Switzerland’s Dirty Sound Magnet are an unstoppable, unbreakable pressure of rock. The uniqueness of their mesmerizing music and kinetic stay performances has received audiences the world over. Their present is unpredictable; shamanic stage presence, rock star charisma, instrumental prowess, poetic vocals, tantalizing dynamics.
As youngsters hailing from Fribourg, Stavros Dzodzos (guitar, vocals), Marco Mottolini (bass, backing vocals), and Maxime Cosandey (drums, backing vocals) devoured lots of of albums, whereas rehearsing with nice depth.
Their ardour quickly became an dependancy and whole dedication to their artwork, crafting a sound that has been likened to a fusion of Led Zeppelin‘s vitality and instrumental virtuosity, Iggy Pop‘s uncooked vitality, and The Doors‘ mysticism, moreover imbued with fashionable psych influences of bands like Tame Impala and King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard.
This stylistic pedigree, together with thought-provoking lyrics reflecting modern social turmoil, Dirty Sound Magnet have created their very own distinct musical components.
In just a few quick years for the reason that band’s formation, Dirty Sound Magnet swiftly established themselves inside Europe’s burgeoning psychedelic rock scene, extensively touring the continent all through 2017 to 2020. Since the discharge of the band’s third and most profitable studio album DSM-III, Dirty Sound Magnet have carried out over 130 exhibits, together with sold-out excursions within the UK, Germany, and Mexico, received the Swiss Live Talents award for ‘Best Swiss Rock Band’ for the second time, beforehand taking it home for the band’s 2017 debut album, Western Lies.
Dirty Sound Magnet‘s music is in a continuing state of evolution, and their upcoming file, Dreaming In Dystopia, due on October 20, 2023, through Australian label Wild Thing Records, is a testomony to their inventive development.
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