If you ever were a fan of such artists as Cabaret Voltaire, The Pop Group, A Certain Ratio or Renegade Soundwave, it’s your lucky day as we’ve got a track in store for you that you’re sure to fancy. Mixing electronica and dub with a certain amount of groovable chaos, the international music collective known as The Pull of Autumn has teamed up with several music icons to create the stunning ‘Outlaw Empire’. The bass here gives a high vibing factor and the electronic jazz weaving-wanderings and mix thereof are innovative as *^%# – where technology is a labyrinth of the sonic mind.
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Featuring none other than Mark Stewart, founding member of the legendary UK bandThe Pop Group, this track wasremixed by legendary producer Adrian Sherwood. Owner of the famed On-U-Sound Records, the first label to experiment with early dub reggae music using echo, reverb and delay techniques, Sherwood is known for mixing dub with other forms of electronic music and has done remixes for Depeche Mode, Primal Scream, Skinny Puppy and Sinead O’ Connor. If that weren’t enough (but it is), this song also involves bassist Doug Wimbish (Living Colour, Tackhead and sessional musician for The Rolling Stones, Mick Jagger, Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five, Depeche Mode, Sugarhill Gang and James Brown).
This is a solid first preview of The Pull of Autumn’s fourth album ‘Beautiful Broken World’. Justass eclectic in his musical endeavours is The Pull of Autumn mastermind Daniel Darrow, who adds elements of granular glitch synthesis to the track, the end result being a daring mixture of dub, jazz, spoken word and electronic music.
So how did all of this happen? Long wishing to collaborate with Mark Stewart, the opportunity finally arose for Darrow thanks to Scott Crow ofEmergency Heart Records, through which both Darrow and Stewart have released music. Fortunately Stewart, known for his experimental postpunk-jazz explorations and his production and remixes for such artists as The Fall, The Slits and Nine Inch Nails, thought it was a great idea.
‘Beautiful Broken World’ is an ambitious 15-track undertaking that began in early 2020 and involves a number of iconic artists. They include Philip Parfitt of The Perfect Disaster, Stuart Moxham of Rough Trade postpunk band Young Marble Giants, Luke Skyscraper James of I.R.S. recording artist FASHION and John Neff, who has contributed to multiple David Lynch films and is also a member of David Lynch’s Blubob.
The Pull of Autumn is a ‘super group’ of sorts, with songs orbiting around Rhode Island artist Daniel Darrow from Johanna’s House of Glamour and involving numerous emerging and notable musicians from the local music scene and from far abroad. The band debuted with their eponymous album in 2018, followed by ‘Afterglow’ in 2019 and‘Small Colors’ in 2020.
As of October 5, ‘Outlaw Empire’ will be available across online stores and streaming platforms like Apple Music andSpotify, as well as Bandcamp, where the “Beautiful Broken World’ album (slated for release on November 18) is already available for pre-order.
CREDITS
‘Outlaw Empire’ written by Mark Stewart & Nungun (Teache & Ryan Mahan)
Remixed by Adrian Stewart
Mark Stewart – Vocals
Daniel Darrow – Synths
Doug Wimbish – Bass
Album produced by Daniel Darrow
Mastered by Bruce Macleod
Album cover art by Joyce Raskin White
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