Gazpacho announce new album ‘Fireworker’
GAZPACHO have announced a new album!
Titled Fireworker, the upcoming album from the Norwegian art rock follows on from 2018’s Soyuz and is scheduled to be released in September this year, via Kscope.
Conceptually, the album follows the band’s tradition of blending grand philosophical quandaries, stimulating literary leanings, and haunting personal turmoil. In a way, it acts as the culmination of the themes and techniques that have decorated earlier albums, combining the fatalistic isolation of Night and Missa Atropos; the ill-fated narrative drama of Tick Tock and Soyuz; and the hefty theological/scientific contemplations of Demon and Molok. Beyond that, its central premise (that humanity has always been controlled by an infallible and omniscient creature determined to propagate at any cost) means that Fireworker comes across like the overarching umbrella under which all of its predecessors occur.
Keyboardist Thomas Andersen explains, “there’s an instinctual part of you that lives inside your mind, separate from your consciousness. I call it the Fireworker or the Lizard or the Space Cowboy. It’s an eternal and unbroken lifeforce that’s survived every generation, with a new version in each of us. It’s evolved alongside our consciousness, and it can override us and control all of our actions.”
Alongside the announcement of the new album, the band have released the first song from the upcoming album; titled Fireworker.
Listen to Fireworker here:
Also, you can view both the track list and artwork for the upcoming album below:
Track List:
1. Space Cowboy
2. Hourglass
3. Fireworker
4. Antique
5. Sapien
Fireworker is set for release on September 18th via Kscope. Pre-orders are available now and can be purchased here.
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