{"id":28167,"date":"2018-02-07T12:15:08","date_gmt":"2018-02-07T17:15:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cultureaddicts.com\/?p=28167"},"modified":"2019-06-02T19:34:05","modified_gmt":"2019-06-02T23:34:05","slug":"autobahn-share-new-single-world-around-fractured-somehow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cultureaddicts.com\/?p=28167","title":{"rendered":"AUTOBAHN share new single &#8216;The World Around You is Fractured Somehow&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Leeds-based quintet AUTOBAHN have revealed their new single\u00a0<em>The World Around You is Fractured Somehow<\/em>.\u00a0<span class=\"e2ma-style\">The track follows up AUTOBAHN&#8217;s sophomore album &#8216;The Moral Crossing,&#8217;\u00a0which is out now felte (The Americas) and Tough Love Records (rest of world). Take a listen to\u00a0<i>The World Around You is Fractured Somehow<\/i> via\u00a0YouTube below.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/UfVwVPp8mJw?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-CA&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p>You can order &#8216;The Moral Crossing&#8217; \u00a0digitally and on limited edition white vinyl in the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/t.e2ma.net\/click\/7xk7y\/3m9fkn\/nu05ye\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">felte online store<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>On &#8216;The Moral Crossing,&#8217; a sliver of strings, a squeal of feedback, pulsing drums, sheets of steely guitar and sonorous bass, and a rough, declamatory voice add more finesse, dynamic and color to the commitment and energy shown on their 2014 debut &#8216;Dissemble&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>While &#8216;Dissemble&#8217; was made by imagining what the late, great producer Martin Hannett would do, &#8216;The Moral Crossing&#8217; is the sound of what AUTOBAHN would do. To capture the new sonic details of the band, lead singer and principal songwriter Craig Johnson, guitarists Michael Pedel and Gavin Cobb, bassist Daniel Sleight and drummer Liam Hilton decided to give up their practice room that doubled as a hardcore\/punk venue (which influenced their original sound, as did a love of The Birthday Party) and build their own studio space.<\/p>\n<p>They found a former double-glazing firm, under a disused bridge, in Holbeck (Leeds&#8217; red light district), and despite having no experience of such a job, they undertook this feat. It took a year from ripping out the existing contents to finishing the album \u2013 which was then mixed in New York by Ben Greenberg, known for his work with Sacred Bones.<\/p>\n<p>On top, Johnson taught himself how to make a record after the studio was built. <em>&#8220;I was down there nearly every night,&#8221;<\/em> Johnson recalls. <em>&#8220;It was pretty horrible at times, but worth the pain to have control over everything. We&#8217;ve had the chance to create the sound we want, at times it&#8217;s more melancholic, and romantic.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Part of the shift comes from Johnson&#8217;s newly honed melodies such as <em>Vessel<\/em> and <em>Torment<\/em>, part from a greater use of electronics, such as the synthesiser underpinning a haunting <em>Future<\/em>, evoking neon-lit rainy-nocturnal rides through a cityscape, likewise the album&#8217;s title track, which is one song to benefit from the judicious addition of violin and cello. &#8220;I&#8217;d been listening to classical music, and I&#8217;d seen the Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra doing Beethoven&#8217;s Ninth, which was mint, but I felt out of place, that people were looking down at me,&#8221; Johnson recalls. <em>&#8220;So, it&#8217;s good to bring some of that to the record. A couple of tracks, &#8216;Torment&#8217; was one, we ended up replacing the guitars with strings \u2013 whatever was best for the song. Like the French female voice in Torment too, it just felt right.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>This time around, AUTOBAHN decided to create their fearsome depth charges by building the tracks as they went along rather than working on completed songs. As a name, AUTOBAHN has been a bit misleading, as they sound quintessentially Leeds, not Munich or Dusseldorf, but Johnson chose the name because he loved the repetition of rhythm. With Hilton \u2013 surely one of the best young drummers alive \u2013 driving, Johnson requested they all, <em>&#8220;imagine they were all different part of a machine: a steam engine, say. Again, it just felt right. And then we put it all together. The lyrics came right at the end.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Johnson&#8217;s lyrics on &#8216;The Moral Crossing&#8217; combine to form a whole: the theme of a birth, <em>&#8220;but that person had no choice in the decision. And then it&#8217;s about the different outcomes that could happen. Which could be glorious or torturous.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The words and song titles suggest more torture than glory \u2013 for example, <em>&#8220;A selfless crucifixion \/ You&#8217;ve nailed in the hard sell&#8221;<\/em> in the manic<em> Obituary<\/em>: <em>&#8220;Pain out of control&#8221;<\/em> in <em>Torment<\/em>: &#8220;With your withered hand \/ Drag me deeper into the fallen ground&#8221; in the escalating drama of Fallen &#8211; a word, alongside &#8220;fall&#8221;, that crops up in several songs. Though Johnson points out that another line from <em>Fallen<\/em>, &#8220;Give a break to that child in the noose&#8221; is an example of AUTOBAHN&#8217;s, &#8220;dark northern humour&#8221; (another example was the billboard ad for &#8216;Dissemble&#8217;: a hearse, parked outside a funeral parlour, with the band&#8217;s name in flowers, next to a group of kids holding balloons&#8230;)<\/p>\n<p>And though Johnson admits to sudden negative episodes (documented by <em>Low\/High<\/em>, another slowburner that eventually bursts into flames), &#8220;they don&#8217;t last long. Actually, as a band, we&#8217;re more optimists. I don&#8217;t find talking about this stuff as &#8216;dark&#8217;, but it&#8217;s stuff people don&#8217;t usually want to talk about &#8211; execution, rising from the dead, depression, feeling utterly lost and unsure where to go. To understand the moral crossing, to go one way or the other, and how it can change your life. For me, saying this stuff out loud give the feeling that there&#8217;s a future.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>On <em>Low\/High<\/em>, Johnson sings, <em>&#8220;You&#8217;re floating higher now \/ No more discontent&#8221;<\/em> and in the part-spoken word litany that is <em>Creation<\/em>, <em>&#8220;I want to be there for you \/ I want to rise on through.&#8221;<\/em> To reinforce the optimistic feeling, gospel singers from the local church sing on both tracks. <em>&#8220;I wouldn&#8217;t call it &#8216;holy&#8217; but some of the lyrics they were singing were about going to a higher place, even if the whole lyric might contradict that,&#8221;<\/em> says Johnson.<\/p>\n<p>AUTOBAHN have checked their own moral compass, and chosen the hard way \u2013 not just building their own studio, but to keep confronting the dark stuff. But their music is infused with the joy of exorcising the darkness: to be there, and rise on through. There is a future, and AUTOBAHN and &#8216;The Moral Crossing&#8217;\u00a0are very much part of it.<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/d31hzlhk6di2h5.cloudfront.net\/20180206\/bd\/61\/6b\/4d\/bfa9985e32bf7c8803a55cd1_560x560.jpg?resize=340%2C340\" width=\"340\" height=\"340\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong><br \/>\n&#8216;The Moral Crossing&#8217; tracklist<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>1. Prologue<br \/>\n2. Obituary<br \/>\n3. Future (<a href=\"http:\/\/cultureaddicts.com\/2017\/09\/15\/autobahn-release-new-single-future\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">stream<\/a>)<br \/>\n4. The Moral Crossing (<a href=\"http:\/\/cultureaddicts.com\/2017\/08\/17\/autobahn-announce-moral-crossing-lp-via-tough-love-records-share-first-single\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">stream<\/a>)<br \/>\n5. Torment<br \/>\n6. Low\/High<br \/>\n7. Execution\/Rise (<a href=\"http:\/\/cultureaddicts.com\/2017\/10\/19\/autobahn-share-new-single-executionrise\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>stream<\/strong><\/a>)<br \/>\n8. Creation<br \/>\n9. Fallen<br \/>\n10. Vessel<\/p>\n<p>AUTOBAHN will be on tour in Europe later this month &#8211; all upcoming shows are listed below.<\/p>\n<h3>AUTOBAHN tour dates<\/h3>\n<p>02.11 Ghent, BE @ Kinky Star<br \/>\n02.12 Hamburg, DE @ Molotow<br \/>\n02.13 Hannover, DE @ Glocksee<br \/>\n02.14 Aalborg, DK @ 1000Fryd<br \/>\n02.15 Berlin, DE @ Monarch<br \/>\n02.16 Freiburg, DE @ Swamp<br \/>\n02.17 Sion, CH @ Port Franc<br \/>\n02.18 Lucerne, CH @ Sedel<br \/>\n02.19 Lyon, FR @ Le Farmer<br \/>\n02.20 Paris, FR @ Supersonic<br \/>\n02.21 Haarlem, NL@ Patronaat<br \/>\n02.22 Liege, BE @ Kultura<br \/>\n02.23 Oberhausen, DE @ Druckluft<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Leeds-based quintet AUTOBAHN have revealed their new single\u00a0The World Around You is Fractured Somehow.\u00a0The track follows up AUTOBAHN&#8217;s sophomore album &#8216;The Moral Crossing,&#8217;\u00a0which is out <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"http:\/\/cultureaddicts.com\/?p=28167\" title=\"AUTOBAHN share new single &#8216;The World Around You is Fractured Somehow&#8217;\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":26484,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[23,25,28,30,5812],"tags":[6518,7175,1245],"class_list":["post-28167","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-indie","category-live","category-music","category-new-release","category-shoegaze","tag-autobahn","tag-the-world-around-you-is-fractured-somehow","tag-tour-dates"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/cultureaddicts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/abf12565e7edc40f24759f7d_880x586.jpg?fit=880%2C586","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2B2TV-7kj","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":27155,"url":"http:\/\/cultureaddicts.com\/?p=27155","url_meta":{"origin":28167,"position":0},"title":"AUTOBAHN share new single &#8216;Execution\/Rise&#8217;","author":"cultureaddicts","date":"October 19, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"As Leeds-based quintet AUTOBAHN prepares for the November 3 release of their new album 'The Moral Crossing' on November 3 via felte (The Americas) and Tough Love Records (rest of world), the band have shared the latest single from the upcoming album. 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