Patio announce 'Collection' on Fire Talk (Mandy, Indiana & Strange Ranger)
OUT 22ND SEPTEMBER ON FIRE TALK RECORDS
LISTEN TO FIRST SINGLE 'SIXPENCE' HERE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EQfPbJN7Spo
One-time Brooklyn underground darlings Patio — now based in New York, LA, and Berlin — have entered a new era. The minimal trio — bassist-vocalist Loren DiBlasi, guitarist-vocalist Lindsey-Paige "LP" McCloy, and drummer Alice Suh — built considerable hype in New York’s thriving 2010s DIY scene, first establishing their signature brand of precise post-punk on 2016’s Luxury EP. In 2019, the band signed with Fire Talk Records (Mandy, Indiana, Cola, Strange Ranger) and released debut album Essentials.
Following shows with Pile, Dry Cleaning, and Dehd, Patio had immense momentum going into 2020. In early 2021, the band began to escape the city for monthly practice retreats in the bucolic Hudson Valley to work on a collection of new music that would become the group's most elegant, concise, and cohesive songs to date.
Today, the band are announcing the result of those retreats, an album appropriately called Collection that will be released on Fire Talk on September 22nd, and sharing a single entitled “Sixpence,” accompanied by a video by director Ambar Navarro.
Raw, dark, and full of piercing emotional depth, Collection — produced and mixed by Nate Amos of Water from Your Eyes — is a radiant collage of shifting identities, sensory illusions, and deconstructed disco grooves. More complex and purposeful than the fragile post-punk of 2019 debut Essentials, the album reflects transition, conceived to flow from “day” (contemplative opener “The Sun”) to “night” (dub-inspired closer “Inheritance”). New sonic influences like disco (Donna Summer, The Bee Gees) and 2000s New York indie (Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Interpol) evoke freedom and euphoric joy — maintaining the band’s signature minimalism, but with newfound confidence.
“Sixpence” feels like a chrome-plated update of the elements that made their debut LP so engaging. Built around Suh’s idiosyncratic drumming, the band recreate the tangle of unconventional impulses and ideas that have always made their sound so singular, but there’s a deeper sophistication in their musicianship and arrangement that elevates their incisive songwriting.
Patio say of the track:
"'Sixpence’ was conceived within an early 70s daydream of decadence, glamour, and self-indulgence. It’s about false identities — how money helps us create illusions that affect how others perceive us, and how we perceive ourselves. Inspired by Roxy Music, David Bowie, and the lethargic boredom that remains when ambition is thwarted by apathy.”
Tracklist
1. The Sun
2. Relics
3. Patience
4. Routine
5. Either Way
6. Sixpence
7. Performance
8. Sequence
9. Gold II
10. Epiphany
11. En Plein Air
12. Inheritance
