Live Skull have announced a new album, Dangerous Visions, to be released via Bronson Recordings on December 11. Emerging in the early ‘80s at the end of New York’s legendary no wave scene alongside Manhattan comrades Sonic Youth and Swans, Live Skull reshaped the aggression of burned-out post-punk into heavy, guitar-driven rock. This new release showcases their evolution, with Side 1 featuring recently recorded tracks, whilst Side 2 digs into the archives and includes four tracks from their 1989 Peel Session, released here for the first time.

‘In A Perfect World’, the first single to be taken from the album, is fraught with the tension of our times. Sirens wail, then a bass crashes through. Cooped up in his apartment during “the darkest moment of the [COVID-19] shutdown in NYC,“ singer and guitarist Mark C wrote lyrics and recorded vocals while ambulances sped past outside. “I sat in the dark...and dreamed of a more perfect world to replace the damaged one we lived in,” he recalls. “But, as gritty guitar sounds and the incessant beat of the drum and bass line charged forward, I knew we belonged to this world of struggle and chaos.”

Live Skull stopped playing in 1990–but for Mark C, there was still more to be said. So he reformed the group in 2016 with bassist Marnie Jaffe and drummer Richard Hutchins. Last year, an updated line-up with C, Hutchins and bassist Kent Heine recorded the first Live Skull album in nearly three decades, the urgent, forceful, Saturday Night Massacre. Now, just a year later and joined by guitarist Dave Hollinghurst, they return with Dangerous Visions, and this time everyone from the entire Live Skull history is involved.

'Dangerous Visions' track list:

Side 1 (2019-2020)

1. In a Perfect World (YouTube)

2. Debbie’s Headache (new version)

3. Day One of the Experiment

4. Dispatches

5. Twin Towers

Side 2 (1987-1989)

1. Safe From Me (Peel Session)

2. Some One Else’s sweat (Peel Session)

3. Adema (Peel Sessions) (unreleased)

4. Amputease (Peel Session)

5. Tri-Power

6. Alive Again

Enjoying the last warm sunrays of late September, The Night Flight Orchestra comforts you with a late summer anthem to extend the ease and joy of that season. The band states: "Some bands might get depressed when the summer ends and the darkness is coming closer. But not The Night Flight Orchestra. Instead, they choose to celebrate the summers that were, the summers that might never come again, but will always be with you, like a tiny sprinkle of Champagne to thaw your frost-bitten heart.”

‘Impossible’ is a song for all the hopeless romantics who are hanging on by a thread to the memories of their vivid summer escapades, hoping that it will help them survive the approaching winter.

The b-side is a cover of ‘Reach Out’ by Cheap Trick, and everything except the lead vocals and drums were recorded on tour, on tour buses and backstage rooms throughout Europe, before they had to head home because the borders were starting to close down.

“But this is our love letter to you, from The Night Flight Orchestra, hoping that you’ll be with us through the rough winter months coming up.”