The Vacant Lots enter the Interzone // New album on Fuzz Cub
THE VACANT LOTS
Announce new album Interzone out 26th June via Fuzz Club
Check out new single ‘Rescue’
“Repetitive, droning songs embellished with psychedelic lyrics delivered as poetry” – PitchforkAn intense lysergic journey through the cold, dark twilight hours’ – Clash“Excellent, driving and intense”- The Quietus“Superior grade psych rock… slashing along with real electricity”- Brooklyn Vegan“Thrilling and inventive”- Louder Than War
Photo credit Liz Gallardo)
“Rescue is about finding the signal in the noise and feeling the need to escape.”Interzone is the third full-length album by New York’s electro post-punk duo The Vacant Lots. A genre-blending synthesis of dance and psych, Interzone is made for secluded listeners and all night partygoers, meant for headphones and the club. Uninhibited by the limitations of two people and continuing their mission of “minimal means maximum effect,” The Vacant Lots’ Jared Artaud and Brian MacFadyen create an industrial amalgam of icy electronics and cold beats with detached vocals and hard hitting guitars.
The album creates order from chaos and delves into escapism, isolation, relationship conflicts, and decay. With nods to William S. Burroughs and Joy Division’s song of the same name, “Interzone is like existing between two zones,” Jared says. “Interzone doesn’t mean one thing. It can mean different things to different people depending on their interpretation. Working on this album was a constant struggle reconciling internal conflicts with all that’s going on externally in the world. Interzone in one word is duality.”
“Jared and I bounced ideas back and forth while working in seclusion on opposite coasts. We would just send files to each other until the songs were arranged. Then we met up at the studio in Brooklyn where we were fortunate enough to borrow Alan Vega’s Arp synth and finished recording with engineer Ted Young. We then worked with Maurizio Baggio to mix it,” recalls Brian.
The Vacant Lots have released singles with Mexican Summer and Reverberation Appreciation Society, collaborated on their debut album Departure with Spacemen 3’s Sonic Boom, their second album Endless Night with Alan Vega, and most recently on their two EPs, Berlin and Exit, with Brian Jonestown Massacre’s Anton Newcombe at his studio in Berlin. The group has toured with Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, Suicide, Brian Jonestown Massacre, The Growlers, Dean Wareham, The Dandy Warhols, and Spectrum.
Reflecting on the new album, Jared says, “We don’t want to waste people’s time and we want people to play it over and over. Our mantra is ‘is it bulletproof? 8 songs. 30 minutes. It’s about intention and vision.”‘American death / Nothing matters anymore / Closed casket wedding / As this life runs out / I can’t wait / I need a rescue
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Tracklist
1. Endless Rain
2. Into The Depths
4. Exit
5. Fracture
6. Payoff
7. Station
8. Party’s Over
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