Colour Space Transform: 12" Vinyl EP
PUNISH001Label: Punishment Park
Release Date: 27th March
Feel like Group A.D. couldn't come from anywhere else but a post-industrial northern city like Leeds. Their music bears a full-electronic force like the sound of monster machines that regularly swallow workers and their limbs whole but there's sweeping cinematic strings that add a real-world pathos and humanism. It's electronic dance music for the end of the world and up here the dystopia has always felt like a bitter wind on your neck.
Group A.D. release their debut EP 'Colour Space
Transform' on March 27th.
Group A.D. is a brand new Leeds based project. The
name stands for The Group For Action & Dance. and
their music sits somewhere between dubbed out,
psychedelic no-wave and spaghetti-western orchestral
maximalism.
Across the debut EP, tracks slip between the orchestral
flourishes of John Barry and Ennio Morricone, the surf-
rock of Jet Harris and spectral ‘80s dance floor
maximalism - with each style appearing as suggestion
rather than imitation.
Samples punctuate the songs throughout - narrations,
incandescent preachers, machines, children’s voices,
all a patchwork of cut-out motifs that open portals into
uncanny new worlds.
More to come from Group A.D. very soon.