{"id":40338,"date":"2024-05-01T12:15:00","date_gmt":"2024-05-01T16:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cultureaddicts.com\/?p=40338"},"modified":"2024-04-21T15:12:39","modified_gmt":"2024-04-21T19:12:39","slug":"bristol-four-piece-haal-share-new-single-vinculum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cultureaddicts.com\/?p=40338","title":{"rendered":"Bristol four-piece HAAL share new single \u2018Vinculum\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Four-piece Bristol outfit HAAL have shared a new single titled Vinculum<\/em>. The track follows the announcement of the band\u2019s debut EP \u2018Back To Shilmarine\u2019, which is due out\u00a0May\u00a010th via Babka Records.

Combining elements of post-rock, trip-hop, and industrial music, HAAL have quickly become cult favourites in the UK live scene. Their psychotropic blend of samples, DIY pedals, and monolithic instrumentation, has seen the band play and tour alongside the likes of Butch Kassidy, Cowboyy, Deliluh, Treeboy & Arc, Ditz, Gurriers, and Pet Shimmers, as well as appearing festivals such as ArcTanGent, Dot to Dot, and more.

Coming on the heels of their recent singles Janus<\/em> and Judy<\/em> (and subsequent remixes by Water From My Eyes and Crimewave), the new EP \u2018Back To Shilmarine\u2019 arrives as a blistering snapshot of the band\u2019s protean dynamism. The band celebrate their late-90s \/ early-00s influences in a caustic yet melodic blend of tracks that nod as much to the output of labels such as Dischord, Touch & Go, and Nothing Records, as they do their contemporaries in the UK scene such as SCALER, Famous, deathcrash, and LICE. The EP sees them bring all these touchstones together to create a unique and uninhibited maelstrom of sound that spans everything from intricate math-inflected guitar lines and pensive vocals to propulsive drumming, totemic riffing, and warped synths.

The band gave fans a first taste of the EP with what was arguably their heaviest song to date, Platform 1,\u00a018:19<\/em>. Now, HAAL share a dark new single titled Vinculum<\/em>, which showcases a different facet of the band\u2019s sound. Far more stripped back than the prior single the track cycles in an almost jam-like fashion, whilst the vocals twist and corrupt around glitchy guitar lines.

The lyrics to the track were written by a longtime friend of the band \u2013 writer and illustrator Nathan Richards (@scrungoincorporated)\u00a0<\/strong>\u2013 and were then narrated by synth player Ethan Jones. The producer with long-time collaborator Alfie Tyson Brown (Katy J Pearson, SCALER, LICE) then re-sampled Jones\u2019 narration, cutting and re-recorded them into the final track, resulting in a liminal, almost robotic sound.

Speaking on the singles themes, Nathan Richards summarise the story as a tale of\u00a0\u201cA boy who is left shunned from his village, due to his disfigured body. He travels alone in a forgotten part of the world, looking for a cure. He comes across a place where he has the ability to rewrite the natural law of the universe. Being stuck between, hatred, rejection and fear, he is unable to focus his thoughts into anything coherent, only wishing for the vapid idea of him, and everyone else being one and the same. The culmination being the birth of a plague, where everyone suffered equally.\u201d<\/i>

Hear Vinculum<\/em> via YouTube below or stream it\u00a0here<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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