Syd Arthur’s new album ‘Apricity’ – Out Today on Communion
Syd Arthur release their brand-new album Apricity via Communion today. Please see below for the full album track-list. Shot on location in the Kent countryside, singer-guitarist Liam Magill co-directed and conceptualized the video for the title track with Gavin Bush – watch it HERE along with the video for the track “Sun Rays”. And watch the band chat with artist Thomas Langley about the making of the Apricity album art work HERE.
Syd Arthur is brothers Liam Magill, Joel Magill (bass, vocals), and Josh Magill (drums) and Raven Bush (violin, keyboards, mandolin). Formed in Canterbury, England, in 2003, the band has explored the myriad possibilities of improvisation, taking an exceptional approach born of prodigious musicianship, elemental song-craft, and an unabashed spirit of adventure. They have released three albums, including 2014’s Sound Mirror, and earned recognition as a thrilling live act. Syd Arthur has played myriad UK headline shows and support slots alongside such artists as The Strokes, Jonathan Wilson, The Pixies, Sean Lennon’s The Ghost Of A Sabertooth Tiger, and Paul Weller. The band recently hit the road with Jake Bugg in the U.S have just finished a European tour with White Denim.
Tour Dates:
21st October – Gatefield Sounds – Whitstible (in store)
22nd October – Vinyl Store JNR – Canterbury (in store)
22nd October – Smugglers Records – Deal (in store)
24th October – Rough Trade – Nottingham (in store)
25th October – Sound Knowledge – Marlborough (in store)
26th October – The Workmans Club – Dublin – Ireland –
27th October – Rough Trade East – London (in store)
28th October – The Railway Inn – Winchester
29th October – The Cellar – Oxford
30th October – The Harley – Sheffield
31st October – The Cluny – Newcastle Upon Tyne
1st November – The Rainbow – Birmingham
2nd November – The BOILEROOM – Guildford
3rd November – Patterns – Brighton
18th November – Coyler Ferguson Building – Canterbury
The track-list for Apricity is as follows:
Coal Mine
Plane Crash In Kansas
No Peace
Sun Rays
Into Eternity
Rebel Lands
Seraphim
Portal
Evolution
Apricity
“Modern-day cosmic rock…their music positively shimmers… oddball, trippy pop music that leapfrogs boundaries and eras. Imagine Tame Impala if Kevin Parker had spent his formative years at rave parties in the Kent woods rather than stoned out of his gourd in Perth…In many ways, Apricity, suggests Syd Arthur’s long strange trip has only just begun.” **** – Mojo
As playful as they are serious and as innovative as they are traditional, this is surely what Syd Arthur set out to be.” **** – Q
“Their rather fittingly-named track [‘Sun Rays’ is] a myriad of golden hues and dancing…” – DIY
“It’s a super summery, nostalgia-tinged… sounds like it’s being played through an Instagram filter – very chilled and with this underlying theme of lost innocence.” – The Independent
“With Apricity, the boys have… plenty of new ground breaking sonically speaking, and a whole lot of technical brilliance…top-class musicianship that’s fiercely experimental, pushing at the boundaries of what improvisation can achieve.” – Wonderland
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