LAKI MERA precede July second album with new single ‘Sweet Warm Dance’

On May 4, 2013

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‘Sweet Warm Dance’ – out 13 May 2013 on Just Music –

‘Sweet Warm Dance’ (release date 13th May 2013) is the first single from Glaswegian three piece Laki Mera’s second album: ‘Turn All Memory To White Noise (release date 15th July 2013) the majestic, intimate, spine-tingling and heart-stopping follow up to The Proximity Effect, an album that wove far beyond the expected confines of the electronic genre.

The twin track dynamism – the pulse of electronica, the space of classical soundtrack work – is brilliantly realised by laki mera on the new album and their grasp of the dynamics of electronica is evident on this first single. On this track the band combine Moog as well as a PPG, a special German synth from the Eighties that they managed to get hold of to atmospheric affect. Here it is coupled with a remix from Black Butter Records’ South Soul Project, a hot new collective from London that are swiftly making a name for themselves on the bass music circuit with support coming from Scuba, Rudimental, Skream & Benga, Rob Da Bank and B Traits to name a few and a string of releases and remixes lined up for this year, including the amazing remix of Lana Del Ray’s latest single ‘Summertime Sadness’.

Come Alone (also on the new album) has been mixed by Portico Quartet offshoot, Circle Traps, whose eponymous debut EP earned serious critical praise from the likes of the Wire, The Quietus and FACT. Having just finished two new EPs with a more consistent and hard hitting, techno-inflected sound, 2013 looks set to be a big year from them too.

Praise for The Proximity Effect:

“Wonderful debut album…creat(ing) a dense folktronic architecture with an intricacy and subtlety that recalls the Blue Nile, Cocteau Twins and Portishead…. ” The Sunday Times

“One of the most promising intelligent pop acts Scotland has produced this decade” Daily Record

“This is how it should be done. Its the most confident debut I’ve heard in a long while “ Drowned in Sound 8/10

“Something wonderful” The Skinny