Music News - SoccerPractise album released today
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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