New Leeds band Self-Immolation Music announce debut album, out 9th June on Delicious Clam Records
Listen to lead single "Kaleidoscope" here
After self-releasing a handful of demos and putting out a 7” flexi-disc on Donor Records, Self-Immolation Music offer up Infinity Trip, their debut album on Delicious Clam Records.
Lead single “Kaleidoscope” combines warped synthesisers, wall of noise guitar, thundering bass and hard-hitting krautrock drums to produce drugged out psychedelia played with the intensity of punk rock.
The band’s members grew up playing in punk and hardcore bands (The Shits, Beta Blockers, Frisk, Tramadol, Implement, Cheap Surgery, Lugubrious Children, etc), so their approach to songwriting is to make it as loud and abrasive as possible.
Vocalist Josh prefers his voice to serve as another layer of whirling noise in their rich and heavy sound, rather than a way to tell a linear story. He takes a “stream of consciousness” approach to writing, enjoying the opportunity it gives him to meditate and reflect on the human condition. “Kaleidoscope” speaks on the quandary of modernity.
Self-Immolation Music - "Kaleidoscope"
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https://deliciousclamrecords.bandcamp.com/album/infinity-trip
Infinity Trip marks the start of a new era for Self-Immolation Music. After three years of experimenting with a completely new sound palette, they emerge with a cohesive and unique take on psychedelia through a punk lens. There are nods to the quintessential psychedelic bands that inspired them (Spacemen 3, Hawkwind, The 13th Floor Elevators) but we get something raw and heavier than you might expect.
Upcoming shows:
26th May - Hyde Park Book Club, Leeds
9th June - *Secret Venue*, Leeds
16th June - The Shacklewell Arms, London
17th June - The Golden Lion, Bristol
18th June - Duffy’s Bar, Leicester
19th June - JT Soar, Nottingham
20th June - The Peer Hat, Manchester
22nd June - Bloc, Glasgow
23rd June - The Lubber Fiend, Newcastle
24th June - Delicious Clam, Sheffield
A stone's throw away from what little remains of the old Sandoz factory in Leeds, there is a fuzzed-out, hypnotic rumbling coming from the bowels of LS12. The kind of sound that evokes memories of Detroit proto punk, krautrock and the neo-psychedelic sounds of the late 80s all packaged up into something new and exciting for the modern listener.
The band is Self-Immolation Music and their debut album, Infinity Trip, runs the gauntlet of dreamlike pulsing basslines, nightmarish synthscapes and acid soaked guitar licks all filtered through a punk lens.
Appearing fully-formed post-lockdown, this Yorkshire based super group contains members of some of the UK’s finest heavy music exports in the past decade; all working together to create something unlike any other band they’ve been in, but not at all dissimilar from every classic band that made you want to pick up an instrument.
Self-Immolation Music is made up of current and past members of various Leeds-based heavy music outfits. Guitarist Tom also plays in Rocket Recording’s The Shits and Iron Lung’s Frisk. Drummer Patrick featured in Static Shock’s Beta Blockers and currently plays in Leeds D-Beat ensemble, Tramadol. The rest of the band cut their teeth in DIY punk and hardcore bands like Implement, Cheap Surgery and Lugubrious Children.
The band enjoy no longer belonging to a particular scene and being able to play their music to a variety of crowds. Their first show was with hardcore stalwarts The Flex and Pest Control at Boom. Recently, they joined fuzzed-out indie rockers Island of Love for their record release show in the basement of Third Man Records.
Committed to the music scene they grew up in, the band (along with a few friends) are currently working to convert a disused LS12 warehouse into a fully-fledged music venue, to serve as a cultural hub for the Leeds underground music community. The warehouse has served as the band’s home since February 2022 and offers complete autonomy to the group, providing the perfect environment to finish writing their genre-bending, hellish trip of a debut album.
Infinity Trip was recorded by James Atkinson at The Stationhouse who has lent his talents to the likes of Chubby and the Gang, High Vis, The Chisel and many more. It was mastered by the supremely talented Brad Boatright at Audiosiege and also features stellar artwork by Karim Newble from Island of Love.
Like Sandoz, these guys are responsible for creating a powerful psychedelic experience and one that you miss at your own peril. Infinity Trip is the soundtrack to summer 2023, so grab your blotter, your red seal and a copy of this album and prepare for the ride.
“Self-Immolation Music are a group unlike any other in the country. Their unique blend of bone-shaking, extra terrestrial rock music yields tones and textures unobtainable by even the likes of Spacemen 3, Destruction Unit and Milk Music. I would argue that if they could play these droning psych rock jams any louder, the MOD would capture and study them as martians.
Self-Immolation Music’s latest offering, the aptly named Infinity Trip, stands as a perfect soundtrack to anything from your daily commute, your child’s birthday party, walking around with sunglasses on, or just a hotboxed bedroom. My advice to you: listen to this album as loud as possible, your ears deserve it.”
- Karim Newble (Island of Love)
Tracklisting:
1. Kaleidoscope
2. Hearing Voices
3. New Alchemy
4. Infinity Trip
5. Anhedonia
6. Working For God
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