LIFEGUARD ANNOUNCE
ULTRA VIOLENCE / APPETITE
11 TRACKS IN 13 MINUTES
NEW 7” MAXI SINGLE OUT NEXT YEAR
LISTEN TO ‘ULTRA VIOLENCE’
DEBUT LP RIPPED AND TORN OUT NOW
Early next year, Chicago’s Lifeguard will release a new 7” maxi single, Ultra Violence / Appetite. Recorded at the band’s rehearsal space / studio, the 11-track, 13-minute release featuring lead tracks ‘Ultra Violence’ and ‘Appetite’, continues the unstable ethos of this year’s much-loved debut album Ripped and Torn – alternating high-velocity punk-energies with surreal dub-inflected interludes. Listen to ‘Ultra Violence’ below.
That tone stirs, draws you into the entwining guitar and leads you on the unpredictable scratchy and gritty path that only Lifeguard can so rapidly create. This melodic path way of fuzzy fervor and rapturous riffs creates this addictive atmosphere.
Lifeguard on Ultra Violence / Appetite:
“Recorded in Lifeguard’s Stulogulo, newly equipped with actually terrifying faces and friendly heroine carpet, plugged straight into the 8-track machine with the aid of the Dub soldiers, dirty mixing pots and Echoplexes, Lifeguard deliver these 11 tracks in under 15 minutes; 7 inches of LP-oriented fast and automatic music free from lingering, processing, over-thinking, or otherwise staving off release. The fully deterritorialized Ripped and Torn; the ripping and tearing of the band-aid.
This dub-abrasion Maxi-single is Lithographed for the new generation of cylinders. A thin Round wax prism carries that 30-second-torch of what shan’t be considered afterthoughts, rather deliberate bursts scaffolding: ULTRA VIOLENCE and APPETITE.”
The physical 7” is available to pre-order via Matador Direct through Tuesday, January 13th. A digital release will follow in the spring. Purchase HERE.
Out now on Matador Records, Ripped and Tornis Lifeguard’s eagerly awaited debut album. The trio have now been making music together since they were in high school, nearly a quarter of their lives. Noisy and immediate, cryptic but heartfelt, they draw inspiration from punk, dub, power-pop and experimental sounds, and bring them all together in explosive cacophony.
ULTRA VIOLENCE / APPETITE TRACK LIST
1. Ultra Violence
2. Cuneiform
3. 500K Foot Drum
4. Blatant Dub I
5. Manhunt I
6. Appetite
7. Manhunt II (Vogue A Go Go)
8. Blatant Dub II
9. Cuneiform II
10. Manhunt III
11. Steal Everything
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