The Notwist reveal animated video for Kong and release album 24 Feb
THE NOTWIST
NEW VIDEO FOR ‘KONG’
CLOSE TO THE GLASS OUT 24 FEBRUARY 2014 ON CITY SLANG
YouTube link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?
Praise for Close to the Glass
‘Brilliantly snaps together everything from digitalised tabla rhythms to surging power pop’ 4/5 Q
‘Sensitively poised and technically perfect’ 8/10 Uncut
‘Will have you skipping back and hitting play again’ 8/10 Clash
‘A wonderful reminder that nobody makes music quite like The Notwist’ 4/5 The Skinny
‘Propulsive, driving…a surprisingly sparkling uptempo cut’ [‘Kong’] Pitchfork
‘A very pretty, very hooky piece of Krautrock tunecraft, shot through with a deep sense of longing’ [‘Kong’] Stereogum
‘Judging by ‘Close To The Glass’, the lead single off the band’s new album, they have toughened up their sound considerably since 2008’s The Devil, You + Me, diving into the rubbery abstraction that’s afforded by modular synthesis and adopting the percussive, post-rave sensibilities of Mouse on Mars and Simian Mobile Disco’ [50 Albums You Gotta Hear in 2014] SPIN
With their new album Close To The Glass set for release on 24 Feb, The Notwist share an, accidentally very topical, new video for their ludicrously catchy new single ‘Kong’.
The animated visual, directed by Japanese film-maker Yu Sato and featuring illustrations from Tim Divall, tells the true story of a young boy and his family trapped in their home by a flood, dreaming of being saved by a superhero as the water rose around them.
Walking a line between what has passed and what is yet to come, seminal band The Notwist have always pioneered a sound that is both definitively new and distinctly theirs. A series of personal, impeccable records lie in their wake, including the classicNeon Golden (“The Notwist have created a masterpiece by pulling the same trick they pulled on Shrink: mixing things that might not seem to fit together into a beautiful, seamless whole” 9.2 Pitchfork). Records whose diverse impressions are tied together with an all-encompassing warmth and bold experimental streak, one which presents itself clearly on their wonderful new album Close To the Glass.
The band’s first album in six years, Close to the Glass is a hook-laden and unpredictable marriage of free-flowing instrumentation and precise programming, the new record is as romantic as it is robotic – filled with the intimate fallibility of the human condition and the colder magnetic pull of modernity.
When The Notwist began in 1989 it was something different entirely but the core of the band has always been boys from Weilheim, a small slice of German countryside, that somehow created the perfect air of inspiration and deprivation that allowed a band like this to begin.
The founders of the band Markus and Micha Acher grew up collecting records and playing jazz with their father, so naturally, the first music they would make as The Notwist was Hardcore, borderline Metal, with a close vocal twist! Always singing in English and always experimenting the two brothers created three dense and progressively catchier records before finding their third half in 1997, Martin Gretchmann (aka Console), a truly daring maverick from the same small town.
On meshing with Martin Gretchmann, they recorded two more full-length’s, allowing their love of folk, classical, grunge, rock, and electronic music to freely blend together, influencing their compositions in equal measures. Six years later they created, The Devil, You + Me which was to prove yet another progression, most importantly in the recording and playing of this album live alongside The Andromeda Mega Express Orchestra.
While they have always created music ripe with authenticity and mood, we find them now defining their edges with no shortage of bravery or beat. A bottomless collage – part pop, part science, part storytelling – the sturdy glue between the unpredictable layers of Close to the Glass is their newfound synergy as a band. Feeling a strong connection and creative trust between band members allowed for the traditional lines between roles and instrument playing to blur more than ever before. Writing, re-writing, recording, erasing, remixing, re-recording and refining songs as one whilst tapping into the energy they possess in spades on stage.
Now in 2014, we find The Notwist poised to perform their rich sonic narratives in the form of Close to the Glass – from the digitally pulsing opener ‘Signals’ to the breakneck tabla tapestry of ‘Close to the Glass’, the electronic renovation of a simple blues song for ‘Run Run Run’, the sedated sadness of ‘Casino’ to the superbly deft motorik outro of ‘Into Another Tune’ to the drowsy brilliance of ‘Lineri’. They are back in exquisite shape.
The Notwist have scheduled a series of European tour dates to support the release of the album, including a run in the UK in March 2014.
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Sat 15 March Manchester The Deaf Institute
Sun 16 March Glasgow Mono
Mon 17 March Bristol The Fleece
Tues 18 March London Village Underground
Close To The Glass Tracklisting:
1. Signals
2. Close To the Glass
3. Kong
4. Into Another Tune
5. Casino
6. From One Wrong Place to The Next
7. 7-Hour-Drive
8. The Fifth Quarter of The Globe
9. Run Run Run
10. Steppin’ In
11. Lineri
12. They Follow Me
Praise for The Devil, You + Me
‘Krautrock for the 21st century… the most affectingly sad, sweet sepia sound’ 4/5 Mojo
‘[Notwist] manage to continue the evolution, adding extra layers of mesmeric, clicking rhythm and gauzy electronics to wistful melodies’ 4/5 Q
‘A quietly ambitious gem’ 4/5 The Sun
‘Impossibly fragile beauty’ 4/5 Sunday Times ‘Culture’
‘Puts brainy future-folk into gliding orbit, to smart but unassumingly lush effect’ 4/5 The Independent
‘It’s brilliant… rewards repeated listens’ Clash
‘Gorgeous, building on the expansive sound of Neon Golden’ Metro
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