All hail the psychedelic pop-soaked charms of FLORAL IMAGE
NEW Fuzz Club Records signings and Norwich-based psych outfit FLORAL IMAGE announce debut album ‘Gone Down Meadowland,’ along with the release of new single ‘Burning 305,’ the perfect introduction to the album’s shimmering, psychedelic pop-soaked charms.
“Once the current line-up found its feet as a live ensemble, we realised how well we could arrange different melodies over bass and drums that just ‘run’n’gun’ for the finish line,” explained vocalist and guitarist, Fergus Nolan. “It was written to be like the older, more sophisticated brother of Gallipoli.”
“For the video, the track demanded something high-pace, high-potency, jagged to the eyes, uncanny. We pitched heists, end-of-days news programs, but there’s something about the intensity of a chase through the unknown that suited ‘Burning.’
“I think people often forget the innate vagueness of dreams when they use dreamlike in describing spaces – that feeling of not being able to track any object permanence in the world around you. The virtual reality needed to feel familiar and dissonant and daft, filled with disconnected architecture and hodgepodge furniture, as if something or someone is trying to trick you into being comfortable – that’s the swallowing hole of money and power that the lyrics explore.”
Fresh out of support shows with Holy Wave and Glass Beams, the band set out to produce a brand of East-Coast psychedelia that reflected the natural lusciousness and glorious solitude of the world around them. Over thirty songs were conjured, considered and arranged before being whittled down to a final ten.
“Barns, basements and boxrooms across Norfolk were all utilised to unearth the songs from the soil of our collective minds,” added Nolan. “We practically lived with each other and buried ourselves in the music for what was almost a whole half year. We would cook for each other, learn from each other and laugh like we never could elsewhere. Even ‘that’ tricky period of cutting songs off went by with all of us in complete faith that the album’s needs seemed greater than our own. If it wasn’t for the fact that recording had almost become secondary to getting actually quite good at Frisbee, we might have been able to release a double LP.”
Joining Nolan in the band are, Jack Warner (vocs/keys), Matt Kennedy (bass), Mitch Forsyth (drums/visuals), and Phil Whitton (guitars/visuals).
Produced by the band, mixed by Hugh Fothergill of Volleyball, and mastered by Joseph Carra at Crystal Mastering, ‘Gone Down Meadowland’ is Floral Image’s first full flourish and will shortly be promoted across the EU and UK, dates below.
LIVE:
09/04: Paris, Supersonic Records
10/04: Clermont-Ferrand, Médiathèque Jack-Ralite
11/04: Clermont-Ferrand, God Save Clermont Festival
03/05: Angers, Joker’s Pub
04/05: Nantes, Ubik
06/05: Ingolstadt,
07/05: Kusel, Kinett
09/05: Haarlem, Patronaat
10/05: Eindhoven, Fuzz Club Festival
22/05: Manchester, YES Basement
23/05: Liverpool, Kazimer Stockroom
24/05: Edinburgh, The Voodoo Rooms
25/05: Newcastle, Zerox
28/05: Bristol, The Lanes
29/05: Brighton, Green Door Store
30/05: London, MOTH Club
31/05: Norwich, Norwich Arts Centre
03/08: Kendal, Kendal Calling Festival
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