View basket “The Adventures Of Hersham Boys / The Game” has been added to your basket. Hot Air Balloon EP Pile SKU: LPEIS131C Barcode: 601968996178 23.00 £23.00 Genre: Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo Label: Exploding in Sound Records Released Date: 15th November 2024 Buying Format: 12" Coloured Vinyl EP/Mini Album Forthcoming Pre Order Add to your Wishlist Description Product Info Pile – the trio of Rick Maguire, Kris Kuss, and Alex Molini – found inspiration in the studio while working on their latest LP All Fiction, working tirelessly to record, experiment, manipulate, mutate, and layer the songs with lush orchestration, haunting synths, and abstract textures. Challenging the confines of the standard “rock band,” they took inspiration from artists like Portishead and Aphex Twin, reigniting their passion as they explored their sound in a new realm. The sessions resulted in a flutter of productivity and before the band knew it they had completed well over a dozen songs, stretching far beyond the confines of a single LP’s runtime. After much deliberation, songs were pulled from the record, never a “trimming of the fat” but more of a consideration of which songs were able to stand best on their own. These songs form the Hot Air Balloon EP. Released digitally on January 5th, 2024, and now in LP format for the first time, the EP captures the band experimenting in all directions, from the direct to the further abstract. Following the release of “Scaling Walls,” a song Paste Magazine called “a contemplative slow-burn,” the band introduce the EP with the quasi title track, “The Birds Attacked My Hot Air Balloon,” a song that finds Pile in a more surrealist state, the meditative composition bristling with shuffling rhythms and brilliantly disorienting synths. 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