New Album From Manchester Drone Duo Thraa Announced
Manchester Drone Duo THRAA Announce New Album
Half Light Out 24th May
New Single ‘Into The Blue (Edit)’ Out Now
LISTEN HERE
Thraa by Photo Chris Chatt
Half Light, the new album from Manchester drone duo Thraa, offers the next phase of Andi and Sally’s exploration into big dynamics, distorted tonal colouring and heavenly vocals. Set for release on 24th May via Into Earth record label, Half Light was self-produced by the band and cut in three days at 4AD Studios in London. With themes of water and landscape running throughout the record, the duo captured the monolithic resonance of their live setting. Half Light was mastered by Sarah Register and its artwork features a collaboration between legends Chris Bigg and Nigel Grierson.
Today, Thraa release their new single, ‘Into The Blue (Edit)’ – LISTEN HERE.
It has also been announced today that Thraa is one of the eleven artists chosen for the next cohort of Factory Sounds musicians – more information HERE.
Title: Half Light
Release Date 24.05.24
Label: Into Earth
Cat. No.: INTE001
Track-listing:
- Into The Blue [8:29]
- Contre-Courant [3.38]
- Delta [4:56]
- Closing Folded Hands [16.28]
ABOUT THRAA
After playing for many years as part of bigger bands, Andi & Sally of Thraa explore what it would be like to take instruments away, leaving two guitars and one vocal. Working without the constrictions of a traditionally structured song, this duo improvise around meditative drones, combining Sunn 0))) and Body/Head influenced guitars with soaring vocals, capturing an organic sense of sound that has cavernous textures with minimalism at heart.
“There’s something about drone that seems to really suit duos. Earth, SUNN O))), OM, Nadja… The list goes on. And now we can add Thraa to the mighty canon. While you could be fooled into thinking the tracks are meticulously notated compositions of heavy minimalism, their slowly unwinding, Sisyphean meditations are in fact recorded as single-take improvisations. Their pieces will echo through your bones like the roar of a distant giant in a mythical valley and provide the warmth of a freshly flayed sheep’s skin. It’s as if Kim Gordon has swapped her designer sparkles for a cockroach-black hoodie and signed to the Southern Lord label.”
- JR Moores, author of Electric Wizards: A Tapestry of Heavy Music, 1968 to the Present
LIVE SHOWS
5th May – Salford @ The Old Pint Pot (Sounds From The Other City)
16th May – Milton Keynes @ The Crauford Arms *
18th May – Salford @ The White Hotel ^
19th May – Glasgow @ Hug & Pint ^
13th June – Preston @ Ferret &
14th June – Newcastle @ The Lubber Fiend &
30th August – Bristol @ TBC %
21st September – Glossop @ The Globe (TBC)
* Supporting Topographies
^ Supporting Ufomammut
& Supporting Bonnocans of Doom
% Supporting Smote