Post-hardcore rockers Acres have shared the new track ‘Talking In Your Sleep’, taken from eagerly awaited debut album Lonely World, which is set for release August 9 via A Wolf At Your Door Records.

Vocalist Ben Lumber explains, “The song is about being lied to by someone who you think really cares about you. When you think everything is perfect, in reality it’s really not. Talking in your sleep is a metaphor for the words and lies subtly unravelling self-consciously.” The accompanying video was filmed in Latvia; “We wanted something that suited the emotion behind the song”, Ben continues, “raw, passionate and empty.”

Acres have now formed a sound that balances the metal with the melodic, with a heavy dose of emotionally-charged intensity that’s compelling and addictive. Penned in just six months, the upcoming album pays homage to the lives they see and experience around them. The striking artwork is a perfect reflection of the record as it explores further into real life struggles, emotions and subjects throughout, including anxiety and depression, providing a hard-hitting soundtrack to those arduous days and nights.

Acres are back on the road this week supporting Casey throughout April and May across the UK and Europe, with many of the dates including two nights in London already sold out. They will also be performing at Camden Rocks Festival and Burn It Down festival this summer before more headline show announcements to come. 

TOUR DATES W/ CASEY

MAY

6th – Rescue Rooms, Nottingham UK

7th – Exchange, Bristol UK (SOLD OUT)

8th – Rebellion, Manchester UK

9th – Key Club, Leeds UK

10th – The Dome, London UK (SOLD OUT)

11th – The Dome, London UK (SOLD OUT)

JUNE

2nd – Camden Rocks Festival, London UK

AUGUST

31ST – Burn It Down Festival, Torquay UK

Brighton-based Fujiya & Miyagi have been making expansive, experimental and multifaceted electronic-driven music for twenty years now. As an outfit they have been as successful in their investigations into bleep as they have elongated krautrock wig outs, and creating breathy electro pop as fiercely as they do post-punk-indebted scratchy dance. Their new album, Flashback, is to be released in May 2019 and it finds a group re-connecting with the potent music of their youth and connecting it with their well-learned musical chops as adults.

Fujiya & Miyagi first came to light with their 2002 album Electro Karaoke In The Negative Style which created the first glimpse of what was to become their distinctive sound of electronics and hushed vocals. It wasn't until 2006 with the release of Transparent Things that the group gained wider critical acclaim and became more widely known both in Europe and in North America. The album blended the groups love of ‘70s German electronic music, post-punk dance music and the sounds affiliated with labels such as Warp Records in the 1990s. They toured extensively during this period and also around 2009's Lightbulbs album.

They then worked with LA based Producer Thom Monahan on 2011's Ventriloquizzing. The record was a move away from the more electronic and dance orientated direction of their previous records with more emphasis on sounds and textures. After a three year gap Fujiya & Miyagi returned in 2014 with their most electronic album to date titled Artificial Sweeteners, which returned to the working methods of their earlier records but with added vigour and experimentation. Between 2016 and 2017 they released a deeply ambitious three EP trilogy on their own imprint Impossible Objects of Desire in 2017. A carefully staged project that saw the group traverse disco, electro, pop, and the now synonymous 1970’s German-inspired groove they so seamlessly ooze.

Fujiya & Miyagi 2019 Tour Dates:

05/29 – Brighton, UK @ Green Door Store

06/01 – London, UK @ Moth Club