GRUMBLING FUR: New Video For The Track ‘The Ballard Of Roy Batty’

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With the new album ‘Glynnaestra’ out later this month, Grumbling Fur have released a video for the track ‘The Ballard of Roy Batty’ taken from it, a song in reference to the final dying words of main antagonist in the cult sci-fi film Blade Runner (oh yes!).

As veterans of the UK experimental underground, Daniel O’Sullivan and Alexander Tucker are long time friends and collaborators. O’Sullivan as a member of Guapo, Ulver, and Æthenor (with Stephen O’Malley), and Tucker with imbogodom and as an eclectic (read: Yeti) solo artist. GRUMBLING FUR’s world is an innovative one, where every sound contains its own unique story, and is driven by the overarching melody and harmony. O’Sullivan and Tucker write pop songs for the sophisticated palate.

GRUMBLING FUR will be performing at East End Live on Saturday 13th July at the Red Gallery. The festival will take place across 10 venues with 50 bands playing including Pere Ubu, Toy, East India Youth, Wet Nuns and more. They will also be doing a free in-store at Rough Trade East on the day of the album’s release on Monday 22nd July. Rough Trade will have an exclusive tote bag free with all purchases of the album. The bag comes in black and features an original design by the duo.

GRUMBLING FUR Live Dates (more to be announced soon):

Sat Jul 13th London, UK – Red Gallery @ East End Live Festival [tickets]
Mon Jul 22nd London, UK – Rough Trade East – [info]
Fri Sep 20th Tilburg, The Netherlands – Incubate Festival [tickets]

On their newest album as GRUMBLING FUR, Glynnaestra, they have crafted an avant-pop album assembled as one would a collage. This structural foundation is built up via an eclectic array of instruments, both acoustic and modified, to pulsating electronic sounds. Add to this mix the pair’s entirely modern shamanistic meta-narratives, and the result is a contemporary psychedelic pop delight. GRUMBLING FUR’s world is an innovative one, where every sound contains its own unique story, and is driven by the overarching melody and harmony. O’Sullivan and Tucker write pop songs for the sophisticated palate.

The songs on Glynnaestra, have many reference points, from the paean to Blade Runner on the anthemic “Ballad Of Roy Batty”, to the distant siren song of the ice-cream van on “Cream Pool”, and even slow burning, molten proto-hip hop on “His Moody Face.” Mutant electronic rhythms bubble and pop underneath swathes of strings. Glowing at the centre are the duo’s unmistakable vocal harmonies, which seem almost telepathically entwined. Throughout, their experimental pedigree shines through, from the mournful cello and guitar of the title track to off kilter percussion of “Alapana Blaze.”

Grumbling Fur 'Glynnaestra' Artwork

GRUMBLING FUR surfaced with debut album Furrier (Aurora Borealis) in 2011. The record was an assemblage from a one-day recording session involving Jussi Lehtisalo of Circle and Pharaoh Overlord and Dave Smith of Guapo, resulting in a suite of psychedelic mantras. The first outing as a duo, Alice, is a session recorded live in the studio for Southern Records’ Latitudes series in 2012, and was inspired by a psychoactive houseplant and the rabbit hole therein.

As their history attests, this is a group unbound from the restrictions of traditionalism and unafraid to shed the pretence of pure abstraction. There’s a tradition of subterranean Englishness at play, harking back to This Heat’s Deceit and Eno’s Another Green World. In their first fully realised album as a duo, the process and texture ripple with a kind of electro-gnosis. Glynnaestra herself (an archaic goddess divined by Tucker and O’Sullivan) presides over the record, transcendent and sphinx like: an apt muse for an album of such lovely and powerful music.

Glynnaestra Tracklist:

1. Ascatudaea
2. Protogenesis
3. Eyoreseye
4. The Ballad of Roy Batty
5. Alapana Blaze
6. Cream Pool
7. Galacticon
8. Glynnaestra
9. Dancing Light
10. Clear Path
11. The Hound
12. Harpies
13. His Moody Face

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