The Presets bring "Apocalypso" to America with US Tour - Something for the weekend?
May 30, 2008, 09:34 PM
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"This is the best thing they've ever done. It's everything that is great about dance music that rocks. Awesome." – DJ Magazine
After two years of studio silence Australia’s The Presets return with an impressive bang: “Apocalypso’, eleven tracks ranging from expansive, emotive techno to future pagan house and choral space funk. Equally blissful and hedonistic, ‘Apocalypso” demonstrates The Presets’ undeniably canny knack for welding hook-laden pop to some of the most singular and exciting sounds of tomorrow. Now’s your chance to catch this band live as they traipse their dance magic across the US and Canada in the coming weeks and into the Summer.
"A pounding piece of pyschotic electro discord. A dancefloor cracker." - i-D Debuting at #1 in their native Australia and attaining Gold status in less than a week (the single ‘My People’ also enjoying Gold sales), The Presets are now one of the most talked about and in-demand live dance acts today with a catalogue of dance smashes to their name and legend of their live performance rumbling in cities left in their wake.
"A brave album of huge referential scope yet with a clear focus: to affect people and make them dance. Mission most definitely accomplished." - Clash Magazine
Global ‘Pied Pipers’ in four-four time, a multi-national dance floor coalition in pursuit of a post-industrial utopia, in under four years Julian Hamilton (vocals, programming and keys) and Kim Moyes (drums, programming and keys) have worked their way up and out though the musical quagmire of Sydney’s club scene to become Australia’s foremost proponents of twisted electronic pop.
Recorded in the techno-haven that is Berlin, as well as a hidden away remote farm in Byron Bay, Australia, “Apocalypso’ distills the invisible bonds across continents, between crowds that have gathered their arms aloft at The Presets’ altar, in the wake of their subsequent non-stop global party of a tour. The band have toured UK, Europe, the US and Japan over half a dozen times a piece, not to mention their coveted main support slot for Daft Punk in their farewell shows around Australia.
“The last record (‘Beams, 2005) was one big hedonistic party,” ventures Julian Hamilton, the duo’s vocalist and lyricist, “Dancing, partying, screwing. Which is valid, really valid, but I wanted to actually say something this time.”
"All of a sudden, this boy's in love with the dancefloor again" - Fly Magazine
"No matter where we’ve played, whether it’s a nightclub in Istanbul, to the sun worshippers in Barcelona, to the S&M leather daddies in San Francisco, there’s always a welcoming vibe for us. It’s almost like we’re touring the world in one country, our country, our people.” - Now is your chance to feel the utopia under one roof with your people when the band comes to your city and blasts the recently released ‘My People’, a call to arms, no prisoners spared party, unmistakably Presets in its sentiment.
to witness a visual representation of what we mean.
Elsewhere on the album tracks such as the forthcoming single ‘This Boy’s In Love’ and ‘Anywhere’ and are clean hits of pure, emotive techno that blossom and branch out into Technicolor ecstasy in their choruses.
‘Talk Like That’ and “Yippyo-Ay” aim straight for the pop heart, while ‘My People’ and ‘Kicking and Screaming’ are squarely set for the dance-floor jugular. These unabashed pop songs are offset with tracks like ‘A New Sky’ and the melancholic instrumental wash of ‘Aeons’, which nudge the balance of the album ever so slightly towards some future, abstract utopia.
‘Apocalypso’ trips across a cosmos of sound, and self-assuredly succeeds in its ability traverse the belting soundsystems of the clubs of the world as well as sounding like liquid moon juice pouring out of the speakers in your living room. Party like it’s the end of the world.
"Modular Records is still releasing the most imaginative music on Planet Dance. My People certainly upholds that floor-filling tradition." - NME "Apocalypso is going to slay everything when it's released. EVERYTHING." RCRD LBL
Welcome to the world of Apocalypso.
1.Kicking and Screaming
2.My People
3.A New Sky
4.This Boy's In Love
5.Yippyo-yay
6.Talk Like That
7.Eucalyptus
8.If I Know You
9.Together
10.Aeons
11.Anywhere
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The Presets bring "Apocalypso" to America with US Tour - Something for the weekend?
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