bis: Techniques Music for Residence Defence

bis – Techniques Music for Residence Defence

(Final Night time From Glasgow)

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Out 18th November

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bis launch their sixth album, Techniques Music for Residence Defence through Final Night time From Glasgow on the 18th November.

I needed to test, test and test once more to ensure I used to be getting my information proper. That is solely the sixth studio album from bis, though they appear to have been an nearly everlasting fixture for over twenty-plus years. Testing the discography, it appears that evidently my reminiscence is dishonest. I put this right down to the regular circulate of EPs which have come out (though primarily of their early years) which have additionally led to numerous compilations popping out.

For the unfamiliar, right here’s a whistle-stop catch-up. Shaped in 1994, they had been the primary unsigned band ever to seem on High of the Pops (sorry, I’m positive there’s something within the contract that you simply’re responsibility certain to say this in case you write about bis!). The sound has repeatedly developed, from the preliminary punk synth-pop roots to tracks crafted for sweaty nightclubs. The trio, Sci-Fi Steven, John Disco and Manda Rin, was on the centre of a bidding conflict which resulted in them signing to Wiija Information within the UK (based by employees from the Tough Commerce Store in Notting Hill) and the Beastie Boys’ Grand Royal label within the US. The debut album, The New Transistor Heroes was launched in 1997 to typically good opinions, except for Choose Journal (the place are they now?), and offered over 100,000 copies in Japan.

All through the late nineties and early noughties, the band launched albums, every pushing their musical model to new limits, evident with the digital Social Dancing in 1999 and Return To Central in 2001. Taking a break in 2003, they continued to carry out sometimes over the following ten years, ultimately returning in 2014 with album Knowledge Panik etcetera, which was praised for perfecting bubblegum-stomp electro occasion post-pop. bis signed to Final Night time From Glasgow 2018, releasing Slight Disconnects the next yr. The label additionally launched Music For Animations, a pop-punk album recorded again in 2004 for BBC children’ present BB3B, in addition to reissuing Return To Central.

Techniques Music For Residence Defence, the band clarify, “was born out of a wistful, barely corrupted nostalgia for a less complicated period which will or might not have existed in any respect. A time earlier than life’s realities kicked in and optimism remained the default setting.” It finds bis navigating the spirit of their earlier tunes with extra agile approaches to texture and instrumentation, as playful and intelligent as at all times, but extra assured.

Fortunate Night time kicks issues off. With its partly spoken intro, it jogs my memory of a Caledonian Barbie Lady, however quickly slips right into a strong disco tune with ‘arms within the air’ moments. It’s infectious and grabs your consideration. When you’ve pressed play, or put the needle on the document, you’ll wrestle to cease transferring.

Switching between keyboard-led disco, Italian home and anthemic glad hardcore/ rave items underpinned by guitar riffs, it by no means lets up via tracks akin to Buying For Tattoos to Irrelevant Disco and the gut-punching, driving Stress, not too long ago launched as a single. My favorite observe on the album is the jaunty You’re Drunk Go Residence with Manda’s candy vocals. I wouldn’t say it’s subdued, but it surely’s rather less ‘in yer face’ than different tracks.

In case your solely information of bis is that TOTP efficiency, I’d suggest this as an entry level. In case you’ve been in it for the lengthy haul, then you definitely’re gonna love this.

bis could be discovered at bisnation on Bandcamp, Fb, Twitter and Instagram

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All phrases by Iain Key. See his writer profile right here or discover him on Twitter as @iainkey