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The Third Sound - Most Perfect Solitude
New album from Berlin's The Third Sound out April 26th digitally and May 17th physically. Available to pre-order now on CD, 180g frosted clear LP, and limited edition 180g orange marble LP (hand-numbered /300).Â
Pre-order the new album together with one/both of the upcoming The Third Sound reissues â 'First Light' and 'All Tomorrow's Shadows' â to save 10% on your order. Discount automatically applied at check-out.Â
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âMost Perfect Solitudeâ is the sixth studio album from The Third Sound, due out May 17th on Fuzz Club. The follow-up to 2022' 'First Light' LP marks a new chapter, in terms of both sound and personnel, for the Berlin psych/post-punk band led by Icelandic musician and author Hakon Adalsteinsson. âAfter touring âFirst Lightâ heavily and releasing our Fuzz Club Session LP last year â a career-spanning, retrospective document â this album feels like starting with a clean slateâ, Haken says. Written and recorded in under two weeks, during a rare gap in his non-stop touring schedule as guitarist in The Brian Jonestown Massacre and new project Golden Hours at that time, âMost Perfect Solitudeâ introduces a new Third Sound line-up: Hakon and long-time member Robin Hughes (Organ/Guitar) now joined by Frankie Broek (drums) and Wim Janssens (bass).
As well as the line-up changes, Hakon reflects, âThere is a certain warmth to some of the songs that has not been there before, but they still flicker between light and shadows, kind of like a slow motion audio version of Brion Gysinâs Dreamachine.â On the one hand, jangly â60s 12-strings and breezy melodies shine on tracks like âAnother Time, Another Placeâ and âOn Returningâ, undoubtedly The Third Sound at their most radiant. Yet the record is not without its darker, heavier moments either â see the scuzzy psych-rock drone âVeiledâ or soon-to-be live favourite âWastelandâ, which sets a nightmarish vision of a city in ruins to the tune of heavy fuzz-guitar repetition and hypnotic drums.
The albumâs title is a phrase lifted from Mary Shelleyâs Frankenstein and found by way of Werner Herzogâs journal writings in âOf Walking In Iceâ, documenting the film-makers walk from Munich to Paris, which Hakon was reading whilst on the road himself: âMany of the songs touched on the theme of trips or some sort of travel, so I knew immediately that it was going to be the title. When you are travelling or touring you can find yourself in a weird sort of isolation, whilst also often looking for solitude to get away from everything. And, sometimes, it is best to listen to music in that most perfect solitude.â
As well as the line-up changes, Hakon reflects, âThere is a certain warmth to some of the songs that has not been there before, but they still flicker between light and shadows, kind of like a slow motion audio version of Brion Gysinâs Dreamachine.â On the one hand, jangly â60s 12-strings and breezy melodies shine on tracks like âAnother Time, Another Placeâ and âOn Returningâ, undoubtedly The Third Sound at their most radiant. Yet the record is not without its darker, heavier moments either â see the scuzzy psych-rock drone âVeiledâ or soon-to-be live favourite âWastelandâ, which sets a nightmarish vision of a city in ruins to the tune of heavy fuzz-guitar repetition and hypnotic drums.
The albumâs title is a phrase lifted from Mary Shelleyâs Frankenstein and found by way of Werner Herzogâs journal writings in âOf Walking In Iceâ, documenting the film-makers walk from Munich to Paris, which Hakon was reading whilst on the road himself: âMany of the songs touched on the theme of trips or some sort of travel, so I knew immediately that it was going to be the title. When you are travelling or touring you can find yourself in a weird sort of isolation, whilst also often looking for solitude to get away from everything. And, sometimes, it is best to listen to music in that most perfect solitude.â
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New album from Berlin's The Third Sound out April 26th digitally and May 17th physically. Available to pre-order now on CD, 180g frosted clear LP, and limited edition 180g orange marble LP (hand-numbered /300).Â
Pre-order the new album together with one/both of the upcoming The Third Sound reissues â 'First Light' and 'All Tomorrow's Shadows' â to save 10% on your order. Discount automatically applied at check-out.Â
US shop here
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âMost Perfect Solitudeâ is the sixth studio album from The Third Sound, due out May 17th on Fuzz Club. The follow-up to 2022' 'First Light' LP marks a new chapter, in terms of both sound and personnel, for the Berlin psych/post-punk band led by Icelandic musician and author Hakon Adalsteinsson. âAfter touring âFirst Lightâ heavily and releasing our Fuzz Club Session LP last year â a career-spanning, retrospective document â this album feels like starting with a clean slateâ, Haken says. Written and recorded in under two weeks, during a rare gap in his non-stop touring schedule as guitarist in The Brian Jonestown Massacre and new project Golden Hours at that time, âMost Perfect Solitudeâ introduces a new Third Sound line-up: Hakon and long-time member Robin Hughes (Organ/Guitar) now joined by Frankie Broek (drums) and Wim Janssens (bass).
As well as the line-up changes, Hakon reflects, âThere is a certain warmth to some of the songs that has not been there before, but they still flicker between light and shadows, kind of like a slow motion audio version of Brion Gysinâs Dreamachine.â On the one hand, jangly â60s 12-strings and breezy melodies shine on tracks like âAnother Time, Another Placeâ and âOn Returningâ, undoubtedly The Third Sound at their most radiant. Yet the record is not without its darker, heavier moments either â see the scuzzy psych-rock drone âVeiledâ or soon-to-be live favourite âWastelandâ, which sets a nightmarish vision of a city in ruins to the tune of heavy fuzz-guitar repetition and hypnotic drums.
The albumâs title is a phrase lifted from Mary Shelleyâs Frankenstein and found by way of Werner Herzogâs journal writings in âOf Walking In Iceâ, documenting the film-makers walk from Munich to Paris, which Hakon was reading whilst on the road himself: âMany of the songs touched on the theme of trips or some sort of travel, so I knew immediately that it was going to be the title. When you are travelling or touring you can find yourself in a weird sort of isolation, whilst also often looking for solitude to get away from everything. And, sometimes, it is best to listen to music in that most perfect solitude.â
As well as the line-up changes, Hakon reflects, âThere is a certain warmth to some of the songs that has not been there before, but they still flicker between light and shadows, kind of like a slow motion audio version of Brion Gysinâs Dreamachine.â On the one hand, jangly â60s 12-strings and breezy melodies shine on tracks like âAnother Time, Another Placeâ and âOn Returningâ, undoubtedly The Third Sound at their most radiant. Yet the record is not without its darker, heavier moments either â see the scuzzy psych-rock drone âVeiledâ or soon-to-be live favourite âWastelandâ, which sets a nightmarish vision of a city in ruins to the tune of heavy fuzz-guitar repetition and hypnotic drums.
The albumâs title is a phrase lifted from Mary Shelleyâs Frankenstein and found by way of Werner Herzogâs journal writings in âOf Walking In Iceâ, documenting the film-makers walk from Munich to Paris, which Hakon was reading whilst on the road himself: âMany of the songs touched on the theme of trips or some sort of travel, so I knew immediately that it was going to be the title. When you are travelling or touring you can find yourself in a weird sort of isolation, whilst also often looking for solitude to get away from everything. And, sometimes, it is best to listen to music in that most perfect solitude.â
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