shapes & colors

In the event you discover the time, please come and keep some time in abracadabra’s lovely neighbourhood; a magically wonky wonderland the place strangers go away as pals to a block social gathering soundtrack as eclectic as it’s infectious. The California duo’s album shapes & colours is a stunning collage of psych-fuelled synthscapes and modern Baroque-pop of anti-capitalist actions and escapism, exactly pieced round their very own working lives in a blue-collar city. Within the coronary heart of Oakland’s industrial Jingletown above a former auto-repair store in what was as soon as a mechanics’ break room the place poker rounds ensued, Hannah Skelton (Vocals, Synthesizers) and Chris Niles, (Bass, Synthesizers) constructed the angular 80s-tinged anthems (assume John Hughes montages to Speaking Heads) of their new album, to positively offset the pandemic’s amplification of dysfunctional society. Diving into many years of electronica and crunchy sound results, discipline recordings and animal sounds, blended with an infectious Latin affect, shapes & colours is bolstered by stay percussionists. It shimmies with the charismatic vitality of ESG, Tom Tom Membership, Lizzy Mercier Descloux, and the dub hits of King Tubby, the melodic sensibilities of Prince, Stereolab, and idiosyncratic Deerhoof providing an ornate various to conventional guitar pop chord progressions as they layer wrecking ball-sized danceable motifs to rumble the mud off the automobiles on the road from the close by concrete manufacturing facility. “We take some massive swings to create fascinating moments,” Chris explains. NIMBY crews seize these earplugs now. abracadabra is your new noisy neighbour, and there’s no turning this social gathering down. 1. speak speak 2. in a photograph 3. telling time 4. swim 5. inyo county 6. don’t love u 7. impactor 8. on the zoo 9. shapes & colours 10. daybreak of the age of aquarius
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Product Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.59 x 0.39 x 4.92 inches; 1.06 ounces
Producer ‏ : ‎ Melodic Data
Unique Launch Date ‏ : ‎ 2023
Date First Obtainable ‏ : ‎ November 29, 2022
Label ‏ : ‎ Melodic Data
ASIN ‏ : ‎ B0BM2CRC24
Nation of Origin ‏ : ‎ USA
Variety of discs ‏ : ‎ 1