The Vacant Lots Fracture the Interzone // New track + album on Fuzz ClubInboxx
THE VACANT LOTS
‘Fracture’
New track taken from upcoming album
‘Interzone’
released June 26, 2020 via Fuzz Club
“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 Luz Gallardo)
Interzone is the third full-length album by New York’s electro post-punk duo The Vacant Lots (Jared Artaud and Brian MacFadyen): a genre-blending synthesis of dance and psych,made for secluded listeners and all night partygoers, meant for headphones and the club. Created with aid from Alan Vega’s Arp synthesier and mixed by Maurizio Baggio (Boy Harsher), it continues the band’s mission of “minimal means maximum effect” to create an industrial amalgam of icy electronics and cold beats with detached vocals and hard hitting guitars, delving into escapism, isolation, relationship conflicts, and decay with nods to William S. Burroughs and a Joy Division song along the way.
“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.”New single ‘Fracture’ sees the band build upon these themes alongside the experimental morphing of a proto-punk classic. “I lifted the ending of Marquee Moon & played it backwards to get that lead guitar riff in the song.”
Jared explains. “It’s a song for all the loners & lovers. It deals with the duality of being in a relationship. the highs & lows. communications & miscommunications. There is always some kind of conflict within a relationship, but I see in the lyrics like a film that deals with the initial feelings of love & attraction & the inevitable fall & deterioration of those feelings. What once was liberating & free is now trapped and imprisoned set to a driving, up all night on the highway beat “Reflecting on the rest of the new record, 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.”
Check out new single Fracture and previous track ‘Rescue’
Tracklist
1. Endless Rain
2. Into The Depths
4. Exit
6. Payoff
7. Station
8. Party’s Over
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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.