Advantages launch a shock new single, Missiles on Christmas Eve.
Andy Brown unfold the tidings…
‘Twas the evening earlier than Christmas, when all by the home... All I may hear was this intense new observe from Middlesbrough-based act, Advantages. Whereas we’re all sharing our favorite music from the previous 12 months and reflecting on a 12 months that’s quickly to finish, the modern outfit thought they’d give us a brand new observe from their upcoming second LP, Fixed Noise.
The primary two singles – Land of the Tyrants and Relentless have set the bar extremely excessive already. Two immersive, digital items that discover Advantages exploring new floor whereas retaining the eagerness and distinctive lyrics that caught our consideration within the first place.
Missiles is an experimental and deeply atmospheric, close to 6 minute anti-war track. A poignant and very highly effective piece that compares a snug lifetime of complacency with the sort of missile-ravaged hellscapes we’ve seen all an excessive amount of this 12 months. Attempt to not get shivers when Kingsley Corridor slowly intones, “And the person says the missiles are firing once more.” A outstanding observe.
Talking on the track Corridor says: “We wished to launch a track that emphasised our dedication to nonetheless create wildly indignant music, however in an unconventional method. Theres no shouting or apparent sloganeering right here, but its nonetheless seething with fury. Lyrically its an try to have a look at our personal comfy mundane western lives and query why the phobia and horror of others can fade to this point into the background that it barely registers when its talked about on the information or pops up in your telephone.”
“The soundscapes that Robbie and James created for the observe match the strain within the lyric, slowly constructing the depth to an uncomfortable finale. Prior to now we’d have tried to get the identical impact by merely including large blast beat drums or a slab of concrete noise. With this track, and certainly the entire album, we felt it was essential to not depend on previous methods, to attempt one thing new, to push ourselves.”
Of the video, Corridor remarked: “We determined to try to mirror the glacial slowness of the track within the movie. There wanted to be a sure stage of depth so we went again a little bit to the aesthetic of among the earliest Advantages movies the place subsequent to nothing would actually occur, only a lone determine in entrance of a static digital camera. In doing so, the smallest gestures turn out to be essential. I primarily play a idiot – performing to nobody, applauding myself, patting myself on the again by doing the naked minimal emphasising the core themes of ignorance and pomposity on the coronary heart of the track itself.”
Talking additional on Fixed Noise itself, Corridor says, “we strived for a darkish euphoria. It’s an album had been all immensely pleased with. We knew it was going to be a danger to go in opposition to the formulation of our debut, particularly because it was so nicely acquired by critics, however we by no means wished this band to turn out to be predictable or get caught in a rut. We favor being on the sting of not fairly figuring out what we’re doing, our discomfort driving creativity.”
“Advantages was designed as a collaborative mission and whether or not which means we get our mate onstage to sing a people track or ask the drummer from Remedy to play for us, that’s the way it survives, and that’s the way it will stay.”
Fixed Noise is out twenty first March by way of Invada Information
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Photographs by Tom White.
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