Chile's Föllakzoid recently announced their fourth LP, entitled I, for release on August 1 via Sacred Bones. Now they share the first music from the record, with the transcendental thirteen-minute album closer ‘IIII’. They have also announced UK and European tour dates throughout the Autumn.

Föllakzoid's journey began 10 years ago as a trance experience between childhood friends Domingae & Diego from Santiago, Chile. Heavily informed by the heritage of the ancient music of the Andes, the band has learned to integrate their origins with contemporary sounds and technologies of our times, creating a rich yet minimal electronic-organic atmosphere. I will be their fourth full-length release and third for Sacred Bones, following 2015's III, 2013's II and 2009's eponymous debut.

Föllakzoid grows via depuration, aiming with each record to fill longer spaces of time with fewer and fewer elements. The creative perspective of the band has always been about unlearning the narrative and musical knowledge that shape the physical and digital formats and conceptions available, both visually and musically in order to make a time-space metric structure that dissolves both the author and the narrative paradigms. "We found our sonic and metric identity even more in these songs than in our previous attempts," guitarist and singer Domingæ Garcia-Huidobro explains.

Unlike past Föllakzoid records that were done in single takes with the full band, this record took three months to construct out of more than 60 separate stems - guitars, bass, drums, synthesizers, and vocals, all recorded in isolation. Producer Atom TM, who was not present for recording, was then asked to re-organize the four sequences of stems without any length, structural restrictions or guidelines. Those sequences ultimately became the four long tracks that appear on the album. The result of this was a set of songs where neither the band's, nor the producer's, structural vision primarily shaped the metric or tonal space shifts, but where both were still subliminally present in each of the parts that form the structure and the frequency modulations that guide them.

*N.B. The Leeds and Sheffield dates have changed, see below*

 Föllakzoid tour dates:

Sept 01 UK Brighton Patterns

Sept 02 UK Birmingham Hare and Hounds

Sept 03 UK Glasgow Broadcast

Sept 04 UK Sheffield Picture house social 

Sept 05 UK Manchester White Hotel

Sept 06 UK Leeds Brudenell social club

Sept 07 UK London Dingwalls

One of the most exciting tours to be announced in 2019, Laura Jane Grace And The Devouring Mothers will hit the road with Frank Iero and the Future Violents and Mobina Galore this August.Grace is “Over the moon to bring the songs of Bought To Rot to the UK & Europe and honored to do so in such fantastic company, alongside friends Frank Iero & the Future Violents and Mobina Galore. Each night we’ll be playing our record in its entirety as well as a mix of surprises. Hope to see you there!” You can also catch Laura Jane Grace and the Devouring Mothers at this years Reading and Leeds festivals.

Laura Jane Grace & the Devouring Mothers have also released an animated music video for ‘The Hotel Song’, taken from their acclaimed debut album. Created by longtime collaborator Margherita Ballarin, the video is a moody visual complimenting the stark nature of the song’s lyrics that encourage forward movement in one’s life despite constant resentment and disappointment.

 “ ‘The Hotel Song’ is my tribute to hotel and motel rooms across the world,” Grace says. “Regardless of bed sheet thread count, shampoo and conditioner quality, or Wi-Fi speed, I am thankful for all the rented rooms that have offered me refuge and rest over the years while touring across the world.”

Written and recorded at a breakneck pace, Bought to Rot is an album propelled by a sense of restless, forward motion and the inherent need for Grace to continue evolving as an artist and person the only way she knows how. “I don’t want to write about these same things anymore,” she continues. “I need some new sources of inspiration. And I don’t want to be negative. I want to write some positive, happy songs, and I wanted that to be inspired by positive, happy living, too.”

Catch this incredible line up on the following dates:

August:

26th   St Lukes, Glasgow

27th   Liquid Room, Edinburgh

28th   O2 Academy 2,  Manchester

29th   Scala,  London

30th   O2 Academy,  Bristol

31st   O2 Institute 2,  Birmingham