WhiteMoor - Pause and Effect

Happy Sunday one and all. It seems like we've blinked and yet another weekend has gone by faster than a packet of ready salted lasts in my hands (about 30 seconds). It also seems like a long time since I (that's me, thegeneral) brought you a post of my own. Time has not been kind to me recently, dear readers, but thankfully, I find myself with enough free time to bring you yet another tres marvellouse band to listen to.

Now if you're a fan of the blog (once again "hello mum!") you'll know full well I've featured today's band before. But if you're not familiar with the blog (in which case, a thousand curses upon your person), here is my previous post on the rather fantabulous WhiteMoor HERE.

The band are back with their new album, called "Pause and Effect" - which has an offical release date of 25th July. Here are the necessaries:

You can Tweet them here:

twitter.com/WhiteMoor

You can Facebookz them here:

facebook.com/WhiteMoor

You can find their website here (and preorder the album)

whitemoor.co.uk/

However (and if you've read the news today - oh boy. Apparently Michael Gove doesn't like us starting sentences with However. He can fuck off), what can I tell you about "Pause and Effect"? Well, first of all it's cocking fabulous. Secondly, it does mark quite a departure for the band. This is perhaps their heaviest sounding album to date - and that is by no means a criticism. There's a darkness to these tracks and a feeling of isolation and depth that has found its way to the surface here, which is both surprising and a joy to listen to.

The band have added distortion, feedback and all round general fuzziness to these songs to give them an almost ethereal distance and space. "Codes" is a Mansun-esque masterpiece and previous to that the frankly brilliant "Be The Last" has an excellent stop-start feel to it about a minute in, which wrong foots you in a way you don't expect. "She Makes Me Fly" provides a break from the fuzz - it sounds still and quiet by comparison and comes at just the right time in the album, giving a relaxed and chilled feel. Last track from the collection "Until Tomorrow" is a super way to finish, it has an anthemic feel to it and provides a reminder of the sounds they explored in their previous record "Horizons" which came out in 2013.

WhiteMoor are a really under-rated band and this new collection of songs is a big departure for them, but not an unsurprising one. It's a superb album, definitely worth adding in to your summer playlists for those times when you need something with just an extra bit of depth to it. Get it pre-ordered now!