Friday, July 12, 2019

From tiny California town of Landers (population: 2632) comes LANDROID: A desert band in a desert land; Hear vast “Yellow Sea” single today.

“Dense and distant, filling the room with evocative noirish timbres and haunting introspection,” says PopMatters; “Imperial Dunes” LP out Sept. 13th.

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LANDROID (L-R): Cooper Gillespie, Greg Gordon. Photo credit: LANDROID.

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“It’s easy to imagine ‘Yellow Sea’ being performed during a dreamlike lounge scene in, say, Twin Peaks or Mulholland Drive,” says Jordan Blum of PopMatters in the premiere coverage of the debut single by LANDROID. Listen here or at the link below.


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LANDROID
Imperial Dunes
Sept. 13th, 2019
(Mojave Beach Records)
  

Track Listing:

01. So Say We All
02. Yellow Sea (STREAM | MP3)
03. Don’t Be Cruel
04. Closing Doors
05. Ça Plane Pour Moi
06. Wishbone Machine
07. Automatic
08. A Cloud Goes By
09. Set On Fire

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LANDROID | About

Cooper Gillespie (vocals, guitar, bass) and Greg Gordon (drums, sequences) of LANDROID are veteran performers that have traveled the world as professional musicians. Now they live in the California town of Landers. Population: 2,632.

The music that Gillespie and Gordon are making as LANDROID, so named as a reference to their new home, is as vast as the environment in which it was created. Following years of playing variations on the Los Angeles-based punk and rock hybrid, Gillespie and Gordon settled in a desert land and became a desert band. The duo’s debut album Imperial Dunes arrives on Sept. 13th via their own Mojave Beach Records label.

“They are the largest mass of sand dunes in California,” Gillespie says of the actual Imperial Dunes, another real-life location that contributed to the name game. Turns out the “DROID” in LANDROID has a connection, too: “In Return of the Jedi, the Imperial Sand Dunes are the location of Jabba’s Palace,” Gillespie adds.

This bit of connect-the-dots finds its way back to the deeper substance that makes LANDROID’s songs stick. Giant production makes Gordon’s thudding kick drum sound as huge as the nearby Giant Rock Vortex, where it is believed that Earth’s magnetic energy lines intersect.

“They say it channels psychic energy,” Gordon says. “We know it sounds hippie-dippy, but we swear we can feel it.” Believe the mystical hype or not, Gordon’s drum sounds arrive from another planet.

“The dunes feel like an appropriate metaphor for life,” Gillespie observes, grounding her lyrical themes. “Nature is the ultimate power and just as the dunes change day-to-day, everything in life is constantly changing. We like to think we are in control, but nature reclaims us.”

LANDROID’s “Recommended If You Like” is more like a “Recommended If You’ve Lived.” It’s a list of inspirations and influences that read like whole lifestyles unto themselves.

Imperial Dunes sounds just like ‘em:

David Lynch, David Bowie, outer space, X, Cocteau Twins, William Blake, Blade Runner, Led Zeppelin, Buddy Rich, scuba diving, Portishead, Pink Floyd, Angela Carter, the ocean.

The album’s first single “Yellow Sea,” proves the concept. Lush, but not lost in itself, the song is otherworldly and familiar at the same time.

“Yellow Sea” is a meditation on the hereafter,” Gillespie states.

Imperial Dunes by LANDROID arrives on Sept. 13th, 2019, preceded by the single “Yellow Sea,” out today. Members of LANDROID are available for interviews. Contact Josh Bloom at Fanatic for more information.

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LANDROID | Links


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Josh Bloom at Fanatic Promotion | Contact


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