High Tide Able Noise SKU: WOE016LP Barcode: 5055869551052 23.00 £23.00 Genre: Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo Label: World Of Echo Released Date: 1st November 2024 Buying Format: 1LP Forthcoming Pre Order Add to your Wishlist Description Product Info Able Noise are a cross-continent duo based between The Hague (NL) and Athens (GR), built around the experimental baritone guitar and drum playing of George Knegtel and Alex Andropoulos. After a few formative attempts at collaboration, they officially came together as the Able Noise we see now in 2017, uniting over shared thoughts on art and performance encountered while studying at The Royal Academy of Arts in The Hague. Their first recorded work, a seamless 30 minutes of glistening post-rock anti-formalism, emerged in low-key fashion in 2020 as a cassette through Glasgow’s famed GLARC label. Numerous European wide tours and left-of-centre festival appearances led the pair back to the studio for the recording of debut LP, High Tide, to be released via World of Echo on 1st November. The shift to a studio environment was a significant one, since Able Noise was primarily conceived as a live band, thinking of and writing for the live concert experience specifically. Consider their practice an Active Performance of sorts, one that seeks to challenge understandings of the medium of the live arena, how its properties and limitations can be addressed creatively, and the dialogical relationship between performer and the audience. Those who have caught them live will have witnessed very physical yet malleable performances, shaped each time by the context at hand, be that the time of day, the acoustic properties of the space, and the shared energy of the assembled patrons. True to this approach, the pair have embarked upon the recording of their debut album with a similar exploratory impetus. In a studio without a physical audience to confront, the questions are suddenly quite different: how does one create a definitive recorded music initially rooted in improvisation, how is that recording then listened to and understood, and, without the spectacle of performance, how is it possible to work with the sense of hearing alone. Unsurprisingly, the music of High Tide is significantly different to that of an Able Noise live set. Minimalism has been traded for a detail-oriented approach, the limitations of two sets of hands suddenly lifted by the possibilities of multi-tracked thinking, post-production and various processing techniques. Real-time gives way to fragmentation, distortion and dilation, and the shift is notable – High Tide is a woozy and often disorientating listen that plays quick and easy with conventional notions of structure, at once both centreless and impressionistic, yet somehow guided by an imagined formless space. Reliant much less on their own capabilities – and limitations! – as musicians, Knegtel and Andropoulos heartily invited the contributions of friends from both their local Athenian music community and those made while playing the UK, with the important disclaimer given that anything played during the recording session will not sound the same once on record. The result is duos, trios, quartets and sextets playing in different experiences of time, and on dynamic scales vastly different from one another, brought to equal footing. Critically, the wholesomeness of their creative communion belies the darker theme of inertia that the pair acknowledge runs throughout the album, a sense of bodies of very different weights and momentums existing alongside each other, either adapting to or clashing with one another. In short, the outside world can’t help but seep in, even as you create within your own hermetic universe – the feeling of hopelessness amidst endless political and social strife, obsolescence in the face of technological development, time’s inexorable march. These are things we’ve all felt, and while High Tide, like much before it, doesn’t provide any definitive resolution for these challenges, it does present its own set of unique possibilities written in the shared language of its creators. RIYL: Caroline, Tortoise, Tara Clerkin Trio, Gastr Del Sol, Jim O’Rourke Artist Able Noise Genre Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo Label World Of Echo Buying Options 1LP Format 1LP Condition New Country UK Track Listings To Appease Crickets Providence Boycott Tumbling Inertia Ceaseless sun Garden To Two Violence Share this On Facebook On Twitter Via Email More from Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo View Product Quick View Drenge Autonomy EP – RSD Stores Exclusive Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo | BMG Records | 12", EP/Mini Album Released 1st October 2018 £10.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Drenge Autonomy EP – RSD Stores Exclusive £10.00 Genre: Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo Label: BMG Records SKU: 4050538426892 Formats: 12", EP/Mini Album Released Date: 1st October 2018 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Blind Melon Nico Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo | Analog Spark | 180g, 1LP Released 7th August 2020 £TBC Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Blind Melon Nico £TBC Genre: Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo Label: Analog Spark SKU: ANASP055 Formats: 180g, 1LP Released Date: 7th August 2020 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Massenger Peeling Out Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo | Burger Records | 1LP, Includes Download Code Released 29th January 2016 £19.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Massenger Peeling Out £19.00 Genre: Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo Label: Burger Records SKU: BRGR930LP Formats: 1LP, Includes Download Code Released Date: 29th January 2016 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Pinkshift Love Me Forever Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo | Hopeless | 1LP, Coloured Vinyl Released 21st October 2022 £20.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Pinkshift Love Me Forever £20.00 Genre: Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo Label: Hopeless SKU: HR6658-1 Formats: 1LP, Coloured Vinyl Released Date: 21st October 2022 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Priests The Seduction Of Kansas Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo | Sister Polygon Records | 1LP Released 5th April 2019 £18.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Priests The Seduction Of Kansas £18.00 Genre: Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo Label: Sister Polygon Records SKU: SPR031LP Formats: 1LP Released Date: 5th April 2019 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View State Champs Kings of the New Age Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo | Pure Noise | 1LP Released 13th May 2022 £20.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders State Champs Kings of the New Age £20.00 Genre: Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo Label: Pure Noise SKU: PNE3351 Formats: 1LP Released Date: 13th May 2022 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Elway The Best Of All Possible Worlds Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo | Red Scare Industries | 1LP Released 15th April 2022 £20.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Elway The Best Of All Possible Worlds £20.00 Genre: Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo Label: Red Scare Industries SKU: CCCP240LP Formats: 1LP Released Date: 15th April 2022 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Blink 182 Enema Of The State Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo | UMC | 180g, 1LP, Includes Download Code Released 6th October 2016 £20.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Blink 182 Enema Of The State £20.00 Genre: Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo Label: UMC SKU: 4799874 Formats: 180g, 1LP, Includes Download Code Released Date: 6th October 2016 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View U.S. Velvet U.S. Velvet Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo | Stones Throw | 12", Single Released 21st January 2022 £14.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders U.S. Velvet U.S. Velvet £14.00 Genre: Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo Label: Stones Throw SKU: STH2454V Formats: 12", Single Released Date: 21st January 2022 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Dowsing Okay Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo | Asian Man Records | 1LP Released 12th August 2016 £19.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Dowsing Okay £19.00 Genre: Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo Label: Asian Man Records SKU: AM302LP Formats: 1LP Released Date: 12th August 2016 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders See more in Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo Start again
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