CORBU releases ‘Polygon Forest’ via Stereogum, announces album

CORBU Stream ‘Polygon Forest’ via Stereogum

Debut album Crayon Soul released 5th August 2016

via Big Picnic (US) &  3 Beat (EU)

RIYL Mew, Flaming Lips, Tame Impala

New York neo-psyche band Corbu are streaming ‘Polygon Forest’, the first track from their forthcoming debut album. With its choral harmonies and tribal drumming over shimmering, glacial synths ‘Polygon Forest’ is a glorious and uplifting trip, taken from their album Crayon Soul, out 5th August 2016 via 3 Beat (EU) & Big Picnic (US).
Recorded and produced by the band, Crayon Soul was mixed by Dave Fridmann (The Flaming Lips, Tame Impala, MGMT). A vivid exploration inspired in part by vocalist and multi-instrumentalist Jonathan Graves’ lucid dreams, Crayon Soul is a truly realised vision. “It’s a journey through a series of “gates”, or events that you pass through with the narrator,” says Graves of the album. “At each event, you change and shift into a new part of the story.”
Extremely visual, Corbu create captivating, kaleidoscopic visuals to accompany their music. Encouraging listeners to paint their own path through Corbu’s world, Crayon Soul includes a colouring book, as well as artwork inspired by each of the twelve songs.
Crayon Soul follows two acclaimed EPs, We Are Sound and Everything You Imagine Is Real, which garnered praise from the likes of NYLON, Stereogum, The Guardian, NME and more, as well as capturing the attention of Jessie Ware, who personally requested the band to remix her song ‘You & I (Forever)’.
Crayon Soul is released 5th August 2016.

PRESS

“Brooklyn band using chopped-up movie music to create heavy-lidded dreampop”

The Guardian

A combination of chillingly beautiful synth instrumental sound and introspective whispery vocals, with a lava lamp aesthetic.”

NYLON

“Jonathan Graves frequently references his intense dreams and his love of science fiction, and both of these influences are on full display…”

Stereogum

“Let me start out by lifting my jaw off the floor – now I can say this is just stunning.”

The 405
-“With a debut album in the making and with supporters ranging from Zane Lowe to Jessie Ware, we have our own intuition that 2015 will be a big year for these Brooklynites.”

Line of Best Fit
“…emanates a yearning sense of departure, of words left hanging in the air, of rooms left heavy with the crushing weight of silence.”

Gold Flake Paint