Ipswich five-piece
Basement have dropped
'Head Alight', completing the run of advance tracks from '
WIRED', their fifth studio album.
Due on 8th May through Run For Cover Records, the record represents the group's first full-length release in over eight years and sees them back on their original label.
John Congleton handled production duties on the album, which spans twelve tracks: '
Time Waster', 'WIRED', '
Deadweight', '
Broken By Design', '
Pick Up The Pieces', '
Embrace', '
Sever', '
The Way I Feel', '
Satisfy', 'Head Alight', '
Longshot' and '
Summer's End'.
On the origins of the new track, vocalist
Andrew Fisher explains: "What started out as a love song quickly evolved into something a lot more ethereal. Alex was picking up on what I was saying in a far broader and otherworldly way. He saw it less in a romantic way - a more universal look at the idea of someone's soul or essence being so powerful and beautiful you can't look away. This really excited me because it allowed me to get out of my head and focus on something way more abstract and therefore, hopefully more expansive."
Discussing the production process, Fisher adds: "I hadn't really approached songwriting like this before and I found it really fulfilling. We were really stuck with this sound - focusing on the guitar leading it, in a very indie rock early 2000s thing. It just never felt right. The more we added, the less I liked it. John stripped everything back and it became so much more powerful."
Basement - Andrew Fisher on vocals, Alex Henery and Ronan Crix on guitars, Duncan Stewart on bass, and James Fisher on drums - head out across the UK and Europe this spring and summer, with North American dates still to come. The dates in full read:
MAY
7 Chalk, Brighton, UK
8 26 Leake St, London, UK - SOLD OUT
9 Boom, Leeds, UK - SOLD OUT
10 Projekts, Manchester, UK - SOLD OUT
11 Mono, Glasgow, UK - SOLD OUT
12 Rough Trade, Nottingham, UK (Acoustic) - SOLD OUT
13 The Fleece, Bristol, UK - SOLD OUT
14 The Fighting Cocks + Banquet, Kingston, UK - SOLD OUT
JUNE
5 Rock Am Ring, Nürburg, Germany - SOLD OUT
6 Rock im Park, Nuremberg, Germany
8 Loppen, Copenhagen, Denmark
9 Kollektivet Livet, Stockholm, Sweden
14 TAMA, Poznań, Poland
15 Schlachthof, Wiesbaden, Germany
17 zakk, Düsseldorf, Germany
19 Hurricane Festival, Scheeßel, Germany
20 Southside Festival, Neuhausen ob Eck, Germany
21 Farewell Youth Fest 2, Dresden, Germany
23 Magazzini Generali, Milan, Italy
24 Dynamo Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland
25 Jera on Air, Ysselsteyn, Netherlands
26 Mia Mao, Paris, France
28 Bowlers Exhibition Centre, Manchester, UK (Outbreak Festival)
AUGUST
23 Victoria Park, London, UK (All Points East)
27-29 Canela Party, Torremolinos, Spain
