Cosmic prog trio The Utopia Robust have introduced that they’ll launch a brand new album, Doperider, via Rocket Recordings on October 10. The album title was impressed by US author and illustrator Paul Kirchner’s surrealistic cartoon Dope Rider, which appeared in Excessive Occasions journal.
The band, who’re comprised of six-times World Snooker Champion turned DJ and musician Steve Davis, Gong and Knifeworld frontman Kavus Torabi and The Witching Story’s Mike York, have additionally shared the primary new music from the album, and you may take heed to Harpies beneath.
“All of the items on Doperider started as purely digital items, with Mike and Steve on modular synths and Kavus on an analogue synth,” the band clarify. “We had been intentionally making an attempt to not repeat ourselves and, for that reason, made a degree of adjusting the mannequin a bit of. Not that we have ever been essentially typical, however I believe this album goes a bit of deeper than the earlier two studio albums.”
“Actually, Steve’s listening habits have modified considerably because the first album; he has gone deeper into summary electronica and musique concrete in addition to turning into more and more adept together with his modular set-up. This appears to have shaped a spine to how the music developed,” provides Kavus.
“Hopefully we’ve completed justice to the comedian guide character Dope Rider and that he’d have liked using alongside on his Harley-Davidson on one other quest, with the wind blowing via his rib cage, listening to this album,” provides Davis. “If the viewers chooses the psychonaut highway, then we’re delighted to have been of service.”
“We’re making psychedelic music or, if you’ll, head music,” Torabi explains. “We put an terrible lot of element into each bit. It is definitely not minimalist. Typically, after our exhibits, folks will comment that we had made them really feel like they had been on medication. That is the thought, actually. We’ll take you on a voyage of self-discovery that will not preclude exhibiting as much as work on time the following day. Though actually the core message of our music is ‘Stop your job and begin a commune.”
The band will tour the UK via October. You possibly can see all of the reside dates beneath. Doperider is out on vinyl, CD and digitally.
The Utopia Robust UK tour 2025
Oct 10: Bristol The Dice
Oct 11: Glastonbury King Arthur
Oct 14: Guildford Boilerooom
Oct 15: St Albans The Horn
Oct 16: London Cafe OTO – SOLD OUT
Oct 17: Brighton The Hope & Smash
Oct 18: Ramsgate Music Corridor
Oct 19: Tunbridge Wells Discussion board
Oct 20: Oxford The Bullingdon
Oct 21: Sheffield Sidney & Matilda Basement
Oct 22: Edinburgh Sneaky Pete’s
Oct 23: Hexham Allendale Village Corridor
Oct 24: Hebden Bridge Trades Membership
