Igorrr announce new album ‘Spirituality And Distortion’
IGORRR have announced a new album!
Titled Spirituality and Distortion, the upcoming album from the band follows 2017’s Savage Sinusoid and is scheduled to be released in March this year, via Metal Blade Records.
Speaking about the upcoming album, band mastermind Gautier Serre says, “getting stuck in only one emotion is very boring to me; life is a wide range of emotions – sometimes you’re happy, sometimes you’re sad, angry, pissed off, nostalgic or blown away. Life is not only one colour. These 14 tracks are a journey through different states of mind I’ve been through.”
At no stage was there any plan, embracing the freedom offered in the wake of achieving Sinusoid and going wherever ideas took him, embracing a small army of specialist musicians to help him attain his vision. Importantly, like its predecessor, this is not a predominantly electronic record. “The organisation part has been more complicated as we had to fly traditional instrumentalists to our studio, so, lots of planes, trains and cars were involved to make it happen, but all the acoustic instruments have been recorded traditionally, with no help of the computer.”
These included violinist Timba Harris, bassist Mike Leon, pianist Matt Lebofsky, oud player Mehdi Haddab, accordion player Pierre Mussi, kanoun player Fotini Kokkala and harpsichordist Benjamin Bardiaux, among others. Vocally, the most prominent performer is Laure Le Prunenec, whose operatic strains are a longtime part of the IGORRR mix, while regular collaborator Laurent Lunoir also appears on a few tracks. Serre also invited Pierre Lacasa and Jasmine Barra back to the studio (known from their appearance on previous tracks like Vegetable Soup and Cheval) to appear on Kung-Fu Chèvre and got to realise a dream with one guest performer.
“We had the honour to welcome my personal favourite musical hero on this album: George “Corpsegrinder” Fisher of CANNIBAL CORPSE. He screams on the track Parpaing and his legendary voice brings the heaviness this track deserved. George is like the final boss of death metal. Like on a video game you have the final boss who is the strongest, George is the best in death metal singing. Due to the extreme heaviness and violence of his voice, I found it very much coherent to contrast it with a cheap tune of 8bit music which is the least heavy music on earth. The contrast is beautiful to my ears.”
Alongside the announcement of the new album, the band have released a new music video for the first song to be taken from the upcoming record; Very Noise.
Watch the official music video for Very Noise here:
Also, you can view both the track list and artwork for the upcoming album below:
Track List:
1. Downgrade Desert
2. Nervous Waltz
3. Very Noise
4. Hollow Tree
5. Camel Dancefloor
6. Parpaing
7. Musette Maximum
8. Himalaya Massive Ritual
9. Lost in Introspection
10. Overweight Poesy
11. Paranoid Bulldozer Italiano
12. Barocco Satani
13. Polyphonic Rust
14. Kung-Fu Chèvre
Spirituality And Distortion is set for release on March 27th via Metal Blade Records.
For more information on IGORRR like their official page on Facebook.
