Last fall, shoegaze luminaries Lush announced that they would be playing their first shows in 20 years, and that they were working on new material. The shows are still a few months away, but the new material is here now. The band has just revealed that they'll release a new EP, Blind Spot, in April -- it's their first recorded output since 1996. It features four new songs, one of which is "Out Of Control," which also gets a dreamy video directed by Martin Anderson. Watch and listen via Pitchfork below.
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Band members Miki Berenyi and Phil King weighed in in a press release:
Berenyi: It certainly took some time to set up, but once we were in the studio, everything came together incredibly quickly. It was great fun! It's been a long time since I've written Lush lyrics, and I realised early on with this EP that what I wrote about then is not what I feel comfortable writing about now. My perspective, and what is close to my heart, has changed, and I think that's conveyed in the songs.
King: I know I’m biased, but I work for a music magazine and so much of the music I hear played in the office sounds non-descript or derivative. Emma has this way of writing unusual chord changes and manages to weave lovely melodies over the top, and it immediately sounds distinctive, like Lush.
Tracklist:
01 "Out Of Control"
02 "Lost Boy"
03 "Burnham Beaches"
04 "Rosebud"
Blind Spot is out 2/22.
