{"id":19910,"date":"2016-02-15T10:52:13","date_gmt":"2016-02-15T15:52:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cultureaddicts.com\/?p=19910"},"modified":"2016-02-15T10:52:13","modified_gmt":"2016-02-15T15:52:13","slug":"doomsquad-announce-new-album-total-time-reveal-first-single","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cultureaddicts.com\/?p=19910","title":{"rendered":"DOOMSQUAD announce new album ‘Total Time’ + reveal first single"},"content":{"rendered":"

DOOMSQUAD, makers of psychedelic electronic dance music from Toronto, will release their new album\u00a0‘Total Time’\u00a0on April 29th via\u00a0Hand Drawn Dracula\u00a0(Canada) and\u00a0Bella Union\u00a0(Rest of world). To go along with the announcement, they released the first track lifted from the album is new single\u00a0Solar Ass<\/em>, which is streaming\u00a0here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Having formed in 2010 siblings\u00a0Trevor,\u00a0Jaclyn, and\u00a0Allie Blumas\u00a0soon began to explore trance and electronic beat making. Their shared fascination with dance culture, rhythm, and the unknown, along with their lifelong immersion in the arts, began to manifest as a collective ethos. Before long, DOOMSQUAD had mushroomed into a full-scale art project.<\/p>\n

Inspired by some of their favourite artists \u2014\u00a0Georges Bataille,\u00a0Richard Tuttle,\u00a0Tanya Tagaq, and\u00a0Genesis P-Orridge\u00a0\u2014\u00a0DOOMSQUAD\u00a0travelled to the New Mexican desert to write and record\u00a0‘Total Time,’ creating\u00a0dark, pulsating beats interspersed with hypnotic, incantatory jams. The album opens with the enticing dance of\u00a0Who Owns Noon in Sandusky<\/em>,\u00a0which was written to inspire the nakedness in us all, a song to wake up our inner clocks\u00a0and reclaim our circadian time.\u00a0Solar Ass<\/em> was written as a love song to a donkey, a song for paying respect to the smaller, under-appreciated elements that carry us through our contemporary lives. The songs on\u00a0‘Total Time’\u00a0are meant to lead you through a genderless experience of transition to owning time, losing time, and becoming timeless, while providing a platform for you to dance through your consciousness.<\/p>\n

Upon returning home from New Mexico, the band continued to draw inspiration from the Toronto arts community, which is vast but also extremely supportive and close-knit. Their friendships and connections led to some fortuitous collaborations, including one with Canadian avant-garde legend,\u00a0Mary Margaret O’Hara, whose otherworldly vocals grace The Very Large Array<\/em>. The driving, dirty bass lines, and analogue layers of effects come care of\u00a0Graham Walsh\u00a0(Holy Fuck), who produced and mixed the album.<\/p>\n

The record features a number of other contributors:\u00a0Mike Haliechuk\u00a0of\u00a0Fucked Up plays guitar. Industrial noise experimenter\u00a0David Foster\u00a0aka\u00a0HUREN\u00a0offers vocals on\u00a0Russian Gaze<\/em>.\u00a0<\/strong>Colin Fisher\u00a0and\u00a0Brandon Valdivia\u00a0of free-jazz duo\u00a0Not the Wind, Not the Flag\u00a0bring instrumentals. And, galactic twins\u00a0Josh\u00a0and\u00a0Jesse Hasko, who perform as North America, are a crucial part of\u00a0Total Time<\/em>\u00a0as well. Over the years, the connection between DOOMSQUAD and the twins has deepened and this summer they’re joining forces: the Haskos are becoming members of DOOMSQUAD’s live act, which will take it further than it’s ever gone before.<\/p>\n

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\n‘Total Time’\u00a0track listing:<\/strong>
\n1. Who Owns Noon in Sandusky
\n2. Pyramids on Mars
\n3. Collective Insanity
\n4. Its the Nail That Counts, Not the Rope
\n5. Solar Ass
\n6. Farmer’s Almanac
\n7. The Very Large Array
\n8. Eat The Love
\n9. Russian Gaze<\/p>\n

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For more information on DOOMSQUAD, visit handdrawndracula.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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