JOHN TIMES TWO launch their ultimate single from their anticipated new album A Life Diagrammatic and it’s a rollicking rasping punch of throaty vocals, meaty riffs and pummelling drums which burst even additional into ramped up sound two and a half minutes in for a kill thrill. Learn on…

Seeing the sunshine of day as we speak is the pulsating Riddley Scott Walker which incorporates a visitor flip from former Unhealthy Seed and Journal man Barry Adamson. Drawing its title from the Russell Hoban novel Riddley Walker, which imagines a post-nuclear conflict future during which society has regressed and historical past has been obliterated to such an extent its open to widespread misinterpretation, it’s a becoming marker for an album rooted in industrial fallout and the way expertise and custom can have equally hazardous impacts on our future.

“We presently rehearse subsequent to the ramshackle of an industrial port on the south coast, and we’ve all the time drawn inspiration from the websites and sounds of this industrial fallout,” explains Newton. “There’s very deliberate signposts of this all through the album, whether or not that be the sphere recordings of a demolition sequenced right into a mesmerising rhythm or the inconsistency of a signal-bound telephone dialog.”
“Having recognized that visible references as simply as essential as audible ones, we actually needed to proceed driving the cinematic leanings of our music. That is one thing that has steadily grown all through our again catalogue and was a key motive why we felt it related to collaborate with different cinematically-inclined people corresponding to Simon Pegg and Barry Adamson.”

The collaboration took place after Adamson selected Nocturnal Manoeuvres as one in all his favorite releases of 2021 in an inventory for Brooklyn Vegan which led to the band approaching him to visitor on the observe. “His album Moss Facet Story is self-described because the rating to an imaginary movie, and that is usually how we really feel in regards to the music that we each take pleasure in,” says Newton. “It’s nice to have somebody who understands a equally cinematic method to music, having additionally created music for David Lynch’s Misplaced Freeway.”

Tour Dates:

Sept twenty second | Southsea, UK – Staggeringly Good Brewery (Out-Retailer)
Sept twenty third | Brighton, UK – Resident (In-Retailer)
Sept twenty fourth | Bristol, UK – Tough Commerce Bristol (In-Retailer)
Sept twenty eighth | Kingston, UK – Banquet Data (In-Retailer)
Sept twenty ninth | Nottingham, UK – Tough Commerce Nottingham (In-Retailer)
Sept thirtieth | London, UK – Tough Commerce East (In-Retailer)
Oct third | Phoenix, AZ – Linger Longer Lounge
Oct 4th | Los Angeles, CA – The Echo
Oct Fifth | Santa Ana, CA – Constellation Room
Oct Seventh | San Francisco, CA – Brick and Mortar
Oct tenth | Seattle, WA – Sundown Tavern
Oct eleventh | Portland, OR – Mission Theater
Oct thirteenth | Salt Lake Metropolis, UT – The DLC
Oct 14th | Denver, CO – Skylark Lounge
Oct seventeenth | St. Louis, MO – Off Broadway
Oct 18th | Chicago, IL – Schubas
Oct twentieth | Toronto, ON – The Child G
Oct twenty first | Columbus, OH – The Basement
Oct twenty fourth | Philadelphia, PA – Kung Fu Necktie
Oct twenty fifth | Washington, DC – DC9
Oct twenty sixth | Brooklyn, NY – St. Vitus
Nov eleventh | London, UK – Pitchfork Competition
Nov twenty fourth | Margate, UK – The place Else
Nov twenty fifth | Cardiff, UK – Clwb Ifor Bach
Dec 1st | Glasgow, UK – Broadcast
Dec 2nd | Edinburgh, UK – The Mash Home
Dec eighth | Manchester, UK – Deaf Institute
Dec ninth | Bristol, UK – Unusual Brew
Dec tenth | Tunbridge Wells, UK – The Discussion board
Jan Fifth-Seventh | Bognor Regis, UK – Rockaway Seashore Competition
Feb ninth | Bournemouth, UK – Bear Cave
Feb sixteenth | Leeds, UK – Brudenell Social Membership
Feb seventeenth | Stowmarket, UK – John Peel Centre
Feb twenty third | Brighton, UK – Concorde 2
Feb twenty fourth | Nottingham, UK – Bodega
Feb twenty ninth | London, UK – Scala

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