Das Koolies' epic, twisted house-pop thriller 'A RIDE'

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28 Jun

Grab a ticket and take A RIDE as Das Koolies’ release a seven-minute pre-album warp-pop-house thriller

Pulsing from the collective memories of four Super Furry Animals, beats, breaks and bleeps fuel their Das Koolies venture, setting dials for the release of debut album, DK.01

Das Koolies: A Ride – OUT NOW
Debut album: DK.01 - Released Fri 22 September 2023
Vinyl / CD / Digital
Strangetown Records in association with Amplify Music
daskoolies.co.uk
The route to Das Koolies’ long-awaited debut album has so far been sketched out in uncompromising, expletive-laden quasi-kraut electronica featuring a Hollywood star and sunroof-down, driving psych-pop that drew pictures of barren, dustbowl America. Having proven themselves destructors of convention and manipulators of expectation as four fifths of Super Furry Animals for over three decades, the band handbrake turns into their latest track release, A RIDE – seven, immersive minutes of joyous, epic, twisted techno-pop with a political slant.

The track comes rapidly off the back of the recent announcement that, after being veiled in secrecy and rumour within the folds of the Furries’ story since the 00’s, Das Koolies will finally manifest physically during THREE in-store appearances at Rough Trade shops. Tickets for all dates are available now via DICE.

Rooted in the on- and off-stage experimentation that occurred in the run-outs of their most critically-acclaimed records and the plugged-in jams that ended their live shows, A Ride’s sense of abandon is matched by its sense of fresh artistic possibility. Without reputation to manage, the four bandmates – Huw ‘Bunf’ Bunford, Cian Ciarán, Dafydd Ieuan and Guto Pryce – rode a new wave that has connected dormant ideas from the past with current energies.

Guitar lines that emerged in the dead of night, lyrics that sail over geographical borders and beyond nationality to follow filthy money, smooth harmonised vocals and all colours of beats, breaks, squelches and bleeps combine in rich symphony make A Ride perhaps Das Koolies most mind-blowing/mind-expanding release yet.

The band says of The Ride: “Maybe this one’s about thieves in public school uniforms and their tax haven stashes. The start was pure electronic. Then the vocals pushed open a door. What was behind it was kind of bizarre. But, then, that’s music.”

After last appearing on stage together in December 2016 as Super Furry Animals, the members of Das Koolies reconvene for their first, three announced shows this autumn, on the day of and following the release of DK.01. With hints of more to come, the confirmed, intimate instore shows are as follows:

Fri 22 Sep – Rough Trade East, London

Mon 2 Oct – Rough Trade Bristol

Tue 3 Oct – Rough Trade Nottingham

For information on these and future dates, sign up for updates at daskoolies.co.uk