PARADE share new single ‘It Moves’
PARADE SHARE NEW SINGLE ‘IT MOVES’
LIGHTNING HIT THE TREES MIXTAPE OUT 11 JULY
SHOW AT LONDON’S PORTICO GALLERY ON 10 JULY
“A strange and fascinating debut”
The Guardian
“Perhaps the best debut track drop we’ve heard this year”
The Line of Best Fit
“As magnetic as they come”
Loud and Quiet
“A fascinating and unusual new collective”
Rolling Stone UK ‘Play Next’
“Our first introduction to PARADE offers up as many tantalizing questions as it provides delicious answers”
So Young
“Whimsical and visceral, PARADE are able to side-step definitions, while still being open and inviting”
Clash
Listen to ‘It Moves’ here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7yEXKgqVCcI
Listen everywhere here:
https://sq.lnk.to/APT001_S3
Brand new 8-piece group PARADE today share new single ‘It Moves’ ahead of the release of their debut mixtape Lightning Hit the Trees which is due out on 11 July via their own imprint Appointment 1. Ahead of the release they will also play a release show in London at Portico Gallery on 10 July. The track follows previously shared singles ‘Picking Flowers’, ‘Que?’ and ‘Reach’, listen here.
‘It Moves’ draws on the collage style of the early beats many of the band have been making together for years. A definitive, unmissable track in three sections which coalesces in a soaring chorus featuring the voices of every member of the group (plus a few extras). “It moves down the street where you live” is repeated: an unknowable abstract force, something that you don’t know is there but is all around you, a parade.
PARADE are predominantly from Brighton and now based in London. Its members – who are all involved in their own capacities in music, art, fashion, design and more – have been making music since they met at college in Brighton, flipping records and making beats in founding member Jago’s attic room. Since then the sound has evolved to incorporate live instrumentation alongside electronic elements. Though always collaborating in each other’s orbits, PARADE was fully formed when all members gravitated towards South-East London, scattering around in musically less mythologised areas across Nunhead, Forest Hill, Camberwell and Norwood.
Lightning Hit the Trees was entirely written, produced, engineered, and mixed by the band in just two weeks. The mixtape pulls together a body of music that incorporates a wide range of ideas from a group of inventive, inspired new artists and comes together in a remarkably clear and unified vision. The mixtape is guided by uncanny valleys, cinematic tones, “hyper-real” mixing techniques, and by a light with no shadow. Influences include: Wim Wenders, Juergen Teller, Velvet Underground, Radio Dept., Scott Walker, Magliano, Soft Machine, This Heat, Pixies, John Cassavetes, Domenico Gnoli, Dadaists, Judy Garland, Cindy Lee, Arca, Bette Davis, Sun Ra.
PARADE is:
Callum – Engineer, producer and songwriter
Fiorella – British-Italian singer and songwriter
Isaac – Saxophonist, improviser and composer
Jago – Producer and fashion designer
Louie – Singer, guitarist, vocalist, songwriter and producer
Owen – Guitarist, vocalist, songwriter, composer and producer
Toby (aka CATO) – Painter, animator, singer and bassist. Currently exhibiting at Saatchi Yates
Yottie – British-Greek producer, sound artist and painter
The mixtape’s cover image was taken when the band were cycling past their local shop, nobody around seemed to be trying to put the fire out.
Pre-save Lightning Hit the Trees here:
https://sq.lnk.to/ATP001
Pre-order on vinyl here:
https://parade3.bandcamp.com/album/lightning-hit-the-trees
Photo left to right: Louie, Fiorella, Toby, Jago, Yottie, Isaac, Owen
Just out of shot: Callum
Photo credit: Callum Hansen
High-res images can be found here
Lightning Hit the Trees tracklist:
1. Intro
2. Shaking Hands
3. Sweet Thing
4. Reach
5. Pillow Talk
6. Picking Flowers
7. On the 22
8. Srar3
9. Que?
10. It Moves
Live:
10 July – London @ Portico Gallery – TICKETS