Music News - Otepoti doom-rock quartet Space Bats, Attack! release sophomore record 'Oort'
20 August 2021 - 0 Comments
Today, Otepoti sci-fi-soaked doom rock collective Space Bats, Attack! are releasing their sophomore album, Oort, the long-awaited follow up to their 2015 debut.
Initially recorded in 2016 at Dunedin’s now-defunct performance space and artist hub, The Attic, the album was painstakingly crafted from extensive improvised jams, whittled and recast from across the globe into 40 minutes of dynamic, exploratory, and intricate celestial riffage.
Lead single 90s sets the sonic landscape for the album, taking a dreamy and restrained progression and gradually morphing it into a commotion of searing guitars, showcasing both the origin and apex of the jammed idea. As a nod to formative 90's culture, the song is sentimentally structured in a quiet verse, loud chorus pattern, dabbling briefly in convention before launching into the rest of the album – endlessly evolving, through-composed ideas that exhibit a rawer cross-section of their creative process.
Space Bats, Attack! was founded in 2011 by Lightning Wave pedal-smith and superlative guitarist Lee Nicolson (Thundercub) with percussive powerhouse and local mainstay Josh Nicholls (Bathysphere, Dale Kerrigan, Fazed on a Pony). Joined by asta rangu’s Richard Ley-Hamilton in 2013 and Koizilla’s Zac Nicholls in 2016, the current quartet is renowned for their spellbinding and frenetic live performances, drawing on their love for angular, expansive and hard-hitting instrumental rock.
The album was patiently and expertly recorded, mixed and mastered by Samdrub Dawa. The album is released through Otepoti’s pre-eminent tape-touting label trace / untrace records.
Oort is available today from where you stream your music, and for purchase on Bandcamp.
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