| Birmingham-born art rock trio Exhailers release their new single ‘Planetary Spin to the Stomach.’ The band’s first gig of the year follows a week afterwards, supporting Mutes at The Sunflower Lounge on June 22nd. The full seven-track EP ‘Abyssal Orbit’ will be released on July 13th with a launch show at the Flapper and support from Mutes, PJJ and Coffee Breath. Exhailers is a three-headed apeoid gestating in the cosmic womb. It exudes glistening melodies, lurching riffs and laments to being lost in space, all melded together in a disjointed kaleidoscope of sound. Brandon Robinson’s guitar work creates heavy walls of fuzz, phasing seas that float, and solos of sporadic exuberance. Gliding atop this, Liv Barlow’s vocals undulate between indifference and reverence, joviality and solemnity. Underneath all, Fred Ensor’s drums provide a spasmodic heartbeat of accented rhythms and erratic flourishes. |
| Having jammed with each other in some form or another since in year seven, some nine years ago, Exhailer’s work is deeply rooted in their close friendship and their need to express themselves authentically. Their sound was forged in a million escaped school lunch-times, spent hiding in the music rooms, immersing themselves in vast and varied inspirations; from the neo-psychedelia of Wand, Pond and Post-animal, to the doom of the Melvins, the crunch of Queens of the Stone Age and the edged alt-rock of Pixies and the Wytches. Independent and strictly DIY, the trio do everything – writing, recording, mixing, mastering, releasing – themselves. After a long period of preparation and planning, they are ready to excrete all their angular treats, to regurgitate a soup of psychedelia, and vomit their bilious fuzz-rock sludge. The Abyssal Orbit EP is the premier sonic excretion of Exhailers; an exotic elevation in the rhythm of the heart; a floating invitation into non-existence; a melding soup of fuzz and bliss and other utter befuddlements; a call for the rapture of mundanity; an intergalactic exhibition; a delirious experience; an extra-terrestrial testicle. ‘Planetary Spin’ explores the dissolution of normality in the face of cosmic insignificance, and the odd beauty by which both celestial bodies and our own bodies revolve. It paints a picture of our emotions, experiences and actions shifting in a cyclical manner, and the simultaneous fear and reverence we feel in this pattern. The song will be available for streaming from Spotify, Apple Music, and other major streaming services. Downloads will be available through Bandcamp for the listeners named price. |