10 February 2025
Band: AVALANCHE PARTY
Who: High-voltage outfit from Yorkshire Moors (UK),
formed by Joe and Jordan Bell, vocalist and bassist
respectively.
Album: DER TRAUM UBER ALLES
Their second one.
Order info: here
Press info: “The band’s 2019 debut LP ‘24 Carat Diamond Trephine’ spurts forth a
spectrum of styles, leaping from frenetic garage-psych to sedate surrealistic Americana to staccato uplifting indie rock over the course of its thirty-nine minutes. New album ‘Der Traum Über Alles’, is compared to their debut a more considered, full-formed beast, its dark underbelly undoubtedly a result of it being conceived during and after the caged-animal isolation of the COVID-19 pandemic.
For all its urgency, the making of the LP required near-superhuman patience from the band. Recorded in November 2022 with Dave Catching (Queens of the Stone Age, Eagles of Death Metal) at Rancho de la Luna – his beautifully eccentric home studio on the edge of Joshua Tree National Park, California – Avalanche Party were set to be there two years before, but had to wait for the US border to reopen after repeated lockdowns Stateside.
Swapping subterranean Teesside for this magical, hazardous desert landscape populated
with rattlesnakes, scorpions and cholla cacti, the band recorded ‘Der Traum Über Alles’ in just ten days. The idiosyncrasies of malfunctioning equipment were embraced as the band blazed through the songs, Catching’s laidback mastery of his own beaten-up equipment ensuring each track felt like a spontaneous eruption after so many months of suspended animation.”
TUTV: Warning. If your physical condition is only so-so, hurry up to the gym and work out for a week, if not you won’t be able to catch up with this mean funk and punk, buzz and fuzz, move and groove machine record.
Your ears will go berserk non-stop, as AP shoot a series of titanic tunes from their hips (John Coltrane’s Moscow Skyscraper / Nureyev Said It / No Neutral / Serious Dance Music / Target and my standout fav belters Shake The Slack and Ecstasy). Even when they slow down just a tiny bit like on Slinky and Chainz your limbs still can’t relax (as if you want
to do that, anyway).
Avalanche Party have become masterly songwriters who know exactly how to construct adrenalized knockout killers with the right combination of roasting riffs, jagged hooks, bang-on licks, powerhouse drumming, effervescent synths and sultry horns here and there.
You’ll hear echoes of Scottish celebs Franz Ferdinand, English post-punks Squid and
rowdy rockers Young knives but all 3 references’ new album can’t match the fireworks extravaganza of Der Traum Uber Alles.
Album of the week, not only this one, but many weeks to come.
Singles: John Coltrane’s Moscow Skyscraper / Shake The Slack /
Nureyev Said It Best / Collateral Damage
– JOHN COLTRANE’S MOSCOW SKYSCRAPER –
– SHAKE THE SLACK –
– NUREYEV SAID IT BEST –
– SERIOUS DANCE MUSIC –
– COLLATERAL DAMAGE –
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TOUR DATES 2025
