Spielbergs share emphatic new track "Distant Star" and announce first UK show / Debut EP
Spielbergs share title track from debut EP “Distant Star”
Announce first ever UK show at Birthdays, London, on April 24th
“Distant Star” EP released April 27th on
By The Time It Gets Dark
Listen to “Distant Star”
“An instantly glorious unravelling, it solidifies the band’s burgeoning reputation.” – Gold Flake Paint
After a rapturous response to their first single “We Are All Going To Die”, which saw the band sit at no.1 as Hype Machine’s most blogged about artist in the world for nearly a week – no mean feat for a noisy guitar band – and having packed out two shows at by:Larm last month, Oslo power-trio Spielbergs are sharing another new track from their forthcoming debut EP “Distant Star”. The EP’s title track is out now and you can stream it HERE. The band are also announcing their first ever UK live show at Birthdays, London, on April 24.
If “We Are All Going To Die” gave us a look into just how intense, dark and heavy the band could go, “Distant Star” treads a more uplifting path, at least musically. On a track that guitarist and lead singer Mads Baklien describes as “about feeling lost in the grey of everyday life, wanting to change things up and start from scratch.” it’s clearly not all good times. However, this is swift-becoming Spielberg’s calling-card; their ability to marry the soaring and uplifting with the dark and gloomy. Baklien continues; “Distant Star tries to capture that feeling of being stuck in relationships and leaving the responsibility for your own happiness in the hands of your close ones.”
The Distant Star EP will be released on April 27 worldwide through By The Time It Gets Dark on CD and download, and as an extremely limited edition blue and gold glitter cassette.
Pre-order your favourite HERE
See Spielbergs live:
April 12th – BLÅ, Oslo, Norway
April 24th – Birthdays, London [BUY TICKETS]
Distant Star EP tracklisting
1. We Are All Going To Die
2. Daisy! It’s The New Me
3. Ghost Boy
4. Distant Star
5. Setting Sun
Spielbergs are: Mads Baklien (guitar, vocals, synth), Stian Brennskag (bass), Christian Løvhaug (drums)
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Praise for debut single “We Are All Going To Die”
“The big rock banger you’ve been waiting for.”
Emerging Artist Of The Week – NME
“an amazing band, I really like this.”
Dan P Carter – Radio 1 Rock Show
“Big, heart-on-sleeve guitar-rock with a go-for-broke anthemic intensity.”
Stereogum
“Full of huge, lung-busting, shouting-into-the-wind vocals and relentless drums, guitars and everything else.”
DIY
“A relentless soundscape of drums and guitars, owing its all-encompassing musicianship to shoegaze that is underpinned by a distinctly emo heart.”
The Line of Best Fit
“A roller coaster ride of rollicking riffs, descending and ascending with a luminous fury and friskiness, before delivering us back home again safe and sound, but breathless.”
The 405 – Track Of The Day
“Guitars drill down at all angles, while the pummelling percussion sounds like a cement mixer trying to chew up a steel beam.”
CLASH
“We Are All Going To Die is a lot more fun than it sounds.”
DORK
“These four minutes could be the start of something very special.”
The i Playlist
“Harnessing the sun-kissed escapism of road-trip-rock acts like Japandroids and Cloud Nothings, their pessimistic streak is cast aside be searing riffs and an urgency most lo-fi groups could do well to glen from.”
AnotherMan
“Excellent… with a noise-pop twist.”
New & Notable – Bandcamp