THOUGHT FORMS STREAM NEW SINGLE ‘ONLY HOLLOW’
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Bristol trio Thought Forms have just made a new track available online, the stunning ‘Only Hollow’. It’s a standout cut from their new album ‘Ghost Mountain’ (out 25th February on Invada Records), a lean two minutes and thirty-nine seconds of lilting, atmospheric pop. A tip of the cap to My Bloody Valentine’s ‘Only Shallow’, ‘Only Hollow’ has been picked up for airplay this week by 6music’s Steve Lamacq, Gideon Coe, Tom Ravenscroft and Lauren Lavern, with the station’s daytime darling describing enthusing “.. great track, absolutely love it”. It’s up for Steve Lamacq’s Rebel Playlist this week too, vote here http://www.bbc.co.uk/6music/shows/steve-lamacq/features/rebel-playlist/
As well as the 6 Music love, there’s been love from John Kennedy at XFM and Frank Skinner, the nation’s second-favourite West Bromich Albon-supporting broadcaster, has played it on his Absolute Radio show.
It all bodes well for Thought Forms second new album, a record that wastes no time in establishing that this is a group who have moved on substantially from their debut of three years ago. Indeed, if their self-titled debut in 2009 was about finding the dynamic limits of their atmospheric sound, gently prodding and probing varying elements, then the huge great slab of guitar that greets you instantly on their follow-up roars with the confidence of a band who’ve found their level from which to fully explore their creative expression.
THOUGHT FORMS NEW SINGLE ‘ONLY HOLLOW’
Charlie Romijn (guitars / vocals), Deej Dhariwal (guitars / vocals) and Guy Metcalfe (drums) have already made their mark live – cultivating a colossal sound that bands twice their number would struggle to re-create – with appearances at ATP Festival I’ll Be Your Mirror and a US tour support slot with Portishead in 2011. Indeed, with a recent support tour with Geoff Barrow’s Beak> and, of course, putting Ghost Mountain out on Invada, there’s clearly a strong link to their fellow Bristolians – more so when you consider that Portishead live member Jim Barr produced the new record. Barr’s input was vital, says the group’s Charlie Romijn: “He totally understood what we’re about and where we are coming from,” she explains. “He really helped us to develop our ideas, enhancing or changing songs we weren’t sure about. We completely trusted him and he’s really pushed us further than we’d have managed on our own.”
Like this? Check this, the video to ‘Sans Soleil’ from the new LP
Sans Soleil from Thought Forms on Vimeo.
A video for ‘Only Hollow’ is due to surface online in the next few days, stay tuned for that. In the meantime, hit back to hear ‘Ghost Mountain’ in full or to catch the band on their forthcoming tour. Thought Forms play The Lamb before a full European tour with Esben and The Witch and a date in Luxembourg with Portishead.
THOUGHT FORMS LIVE DATES
08/02/2013 : The Lamb, Devizes, UK, with Gentlemen’s Relish
15/02/2013 : Botanique, Brussels, Belgium, with Esben and the Witch
16/02/2013 : Gleiss 22, Munster, Germany, with Esben and the Witch
17/02/2013 : Knust, Hamburg, Germany, with Esben and the Witch
18/02/2013 : Bi Nuu, Berlin, Germany, with Esben and the Witch
20/02/2013 : 59to1, Munich, Germany, with Esben and the Witch
21/02/2013 : Rote Fabrik, Zurich, Swizerland,with Esben and the Witch
22/02/2013 : Gebaude 9, Cologne, Germany, with Esben and the Witch
23/02/2013 : Tivoli Oudegracht Spiegelbar, Utrecht, Netherlands, with Esben and the Witch
24/02/2013 : Point Ephemere, Paris, France, with Esben and the Witch
26/02/2013 : Scala, London, UK, with Esben and the Witch
10/03/2013 : Rockhal, Luxembourg, Luxembourg, with Portishead