24 November 2017 - 0 Comments

Just in time for some summer uneasy listening comes the debut self-titled album from SoccerPractise– out today.
 
To celebrate the release they will be performing at Auckland’s Golden Dawn tonight with support from Dbldbl and DJs Te Kupu (Upper Hutt Posse) and DJ Dubhead.
 
Also coinciding with the release of the album is their latest single, Big Bad Wolf, with an accompanying visual feast of a video, shot by Sam Tozer at Lot23. The perfect accompaniment to the jarring yet entrancing beats.
 
The eight-track debut effort brings together both their radio hits and staples from their live set, showcasing the compelling dynamics and tensions of SoccerPractise’s sound. In tried and true Aotearoa fashion the album was recorded in engineer Samuel Moore’s (Invisible Threads, Bad Energy) kiwi bedroom, before being mastered in the U.S. by Sarah Register (Protomartyr, EMA, U.S Girls), and the songs move through the running order with an urgency bordering on hypnotic.
 
Known for creating eerie song-scapes that combine off-kilter production with vocals in both English and Te Reo Māori, the first full-length release for the Auckland four-piece has an immersive, cinematic quality to it – “made more for walking around at night with headphones on than it is for the dance floor,” in the words of band member Thom Burton (MPC/Keys).
 
SoccerPractise are rapidly gaining national and international attention for their dynamic live show, noted for the unique bilingual vocals from Geneva Alexander-Marsters, with raw electronic MPC samples and live synth from Thom 'Moppy' Burton, psychedelic guitar lines from guitarist Leo Horgan, and bizarre visuals mixed live onstage by light master Kim Newall. Fixtures on alternative radio fixtures, the band have topped charts, shared stages with the likes of Underworld and Aldous Harding, and captivated audiences with their live show playing at New Zealand’s most significant festivals including Splore, and the prestigious APRA Silver Scrolls.
 
Winners of the bFM dirtbag radio awards 'Best Electronic Act' of 2016, their four singles which feature on the album have all hit #1 on alternative radio around Aotearoa – including Haere Mai E Tama which was 2016’s most played and requested song on Dunedin's Radio One, and debut single Windfall which has over 130,000 streams on Spotify to date after being highlighted on their ‘Fresh Picks’ playlist.
 
Not content to rest on their laurels, SoccerPractise have begun recording material at Roundhead Studios in Auckland for their next release, and will have an announcement of live dates throughout summer coming soon.

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