Carlisle primarily based electronica three-piece NOVABLOOD current their eagerly awaited album ‘Destroy The Magic’ (out there on vinyl, obtain, and streaming), launched on Outdated World – New World on 4th October.
Following two acclaimed singles (‘Biblical’ and ‘Deliver Your Love’), NOVABLOOD ship their highly effective, well-crafted album Destroy The Magic which cleverly fuses parts of indie, electro, post-punk, and new wave. Put Destroy The Magic subsequent to Depeche Mode, Japan, and Speak Speak in your file assortment.
Transferring from a inflexible two piece right into a extra fluid trio, NOVABLOOD songwriter-in-chief Mark Zowie takes over as lead vocalist for this album and outcomes are beautiful, the Carlisle supremo reprising singing duties in the identical soulful means he did with Burn The Damaging and We Take Polaroids. Any fan of David Sylvian will immediately get Zowie’s refined vocal supply.
This summer time has seen NOVABLOOD win many new followers internationally, due to assist together with on BBC Radio, Apple Music, Digital Groove, Decoded, Ibiza Sonica, plus stand-out performances at revered, iconic levels Ibiza’s Pikes and The Golden Lion, Todmorden.
To accompany the Destroy The Magic album, NOVABLOOD have dropped a placing video for Transfer By means of You which of them paperwork the band by means of September from their house in Carlisle to the streets of Manchester, Newcastle, Todmorden, and Ibiza’s beautiful countryside.
First up is the only Biblical, which grabs your consideration from the primary second, delay synths of Outdated Testomony proportions rising and engulfing you. That is what a synth hook would sound like if Martin Gore joined Underworld, the area between the notes permitting Biblical to breathe and bubble. Then comes the throbbing bass kick. By now, NOVABLOOD have you ever hooked.
As you hear by means of the album, it’s clear it is a luxurious slice of well-crafted and stunningly produced electronica from Carlisle’s best. Second monitor Falling exhibits Mark Zowie carrying his love of David Sylvian like a rosette, Zowie the one vocalist round at this time that may maintain a candle to the Japan frontman. We Are Golden exhibits the range of Zowie’s tastes and a nod to earlier venture Lil’ Devious, whereas Transfer By means of You is an Electro-skiffle masterpiece second solely to Depeche Mode’s Private Jesus. Second single Deliver Your Love is a seductive invitation to a lover within the second particular person.
The complexity of intertwining melodies in Harm stands as much as one of the best preparations by Mark Hollis and Vince Clark. I Can Let You Go sounds basic but up to date, which brings us onto Love. Initially not on the album, NOVABLOOD dropped this into their set at Pikes in Ibiza at the beginning of September, the place a poolside filled with a number of the greatest DJs on this planet stopped. And listened. And Shazam’ed. A particular second for an unbelievable music. All nice albums have a climactic finale, offered right here by Needful Issues, which takes the essence of Destroy The Magic, broods and displays and finishes completely. You probably have this album on vinyl, you’ll already be turning again to facet one and dropping your needle again onto Biblical.
This can be a standout album, Mark Zowie’s seminal one up to now. As soon as you purchase it, you can be checking the place they’re enjoying close to you. Whether or not a DJ or reside set, NOVABLOOD are unmissable as 2024 attracts to a detailed.
