Come celebrate the release of Berlin psych family Zukunft's hot new EP "San Düsseldorf" at 8mm with DJ sets from Zukunft and friends. No live show for this one, but the band will be back playing live in Berlin March 27 & 28th at Loophole!
Pre-order and hear the first single here: https://zukunftberlin.bandcamp.com/album/san-d-sseldorf
"This new record trades the acid-manic jamming and frigid instrumentalism of their first EP for a turn towards concentrated, progressive songwriting that glows with the warmth of the American west.
It took moving to Germany from San Diego, California to make singer/guitarist Mikey Sykes fully appreciate American music, and therein have the band opened up a new well of inspiration. The 3-chord progressions, driving rhythms, and potent lyricism of Country and Folk laid the foundation for Rock bands ranging from The Velvet Underground to the Grateful Dead, and on “San Düsseldorf”, Zukunft pick up this thread running through the history of rock music, and juxtapose it against the cosmic sprawl of their Krautrock-obsessed beginnings. Despite their shift towards the woodsy and pastoral, Zukunft’s love of Floydian progressivism and darkened soundscapes still burst through in moments of noisy de-construction and proto-punk power chords. The title track of the record even provides the band’s first glimpse at classic rock songwriting, strutting at a downtown pace while sneering about trading California sunshine for the streets of Berlin. But it isn’t long before even their poppiest-song-yet turns back towards a metronomic groove that reminds you clearly where they started: as experimental idealists, searching for creative freedom beyond pop song structures."
"San Düsseldorf" is out everywhere February 28th.
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