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Supercaan - Zoetrope
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Supercaan - The Great North Eastern
It’s not often that a band can drum up the sort of flattering commotion and deserved praise that Supercaan has obtained with but one single. The five member group from Birmingham and London made a gale-force entrance when they released their debut song The Bull earlier this year, landing themselves on Hype Machine’s most popular playlist and capturing the attention of savvy music aficionados all around. The Bull was even featured on BBC6 Introducing, where Tom Robinson described it as “motoring atmospheric psychedelia”. It may seem like Supercaan sprung out of nowhere all of a sudden, but Greg Milner, Stuart White, and Tom Whitfield, with Justin Januszewski and Ralph Frost joining for live shows, have been writing and demoing their self-titled debut album over a four year period at weekends in lock ups, attics, bedrooms, and living rooms before recording it with Simon Weaver (Free School, Goodnight Lenin, Victories at Sea, Matters & Lions of Dissent) in his basement studio. The band is now ready to set their eponymous album loose on the world, and they’ve announced an April 26th release date for its arrival. With this welcome news comes Supercaan’s second single, The Great North Eastern. The powerfully rousing song is a voluminously driving guitar anthem, with angular post-punk atmospherics and a widescreen aesthetic reminiscent of the Editors, kneaded with Echo and the Bunnymen’s dark curves and The National’s deep, plangent brooding. The Great North Eastern is a song both crashing melodious and blazing visceral. It’s a moonlit pyre fit for a fevered night ride. You drive and you drive, and you never stop driving, so you can elude your cursed demons. But as exhilarating as the jailbreak is, you find yourself right back where you started.
Supercaan states that their staggering new track is about how a night out with old friends takes us back to being the person we thought we had escaped. “Put a brave face on it, It’s happening again”. Their official video for the song was shot and directed by Nick Bennett (Hand Built Films) and choreographed by Polly Hudson. It features contemporary dancers Shelley Eva Haden & Oliver Robert Russell.
The band's debut album combines the live energy of guitars, bass, and drums with layers of pre-programmed sequences, arps and drones to make indie tracks that are anthemic but full of detail and ambiance. The gear Supercaan used includes: MPC, Roland SPD, Volca Keys and Beats, Korg MS20, & Waldorf Blofeld & Ableton Push. For those of us that aren’t well versed in the jargon of musical equipment, all we need to know is that these pieces of Supercaan’s sonic puzzle are cogs and wheels that combine to form the complexly layered dynamics of their climactic tidal wave music. And in regards to The Great North Eastern, they’ve also given us a cunning reminder that we can move miles away from our past, both literally and figuratively, but it will always be a part of us, ready to test us anew. “Put a brave face on it, It’s happening again”. Except, this time around, we have Supercaan to hold us up and weather us through. The Great North Eastern will also be streaming on Spotify, here, and on all other major digital services. You can find Supercaan’s website at www.supercaan.com, and follow along with the their Instagram, here.
Supercaan - The Bull
Top Tracks: Supercaan – The Bull If you asked me to describe the perfect late night drive song, the end result would likely sound a lot like the debut single from Supercaan.
Sometimes, it only takes one stellar song for me to fall for a band. Case in point, Supercaan, a new group from Birmingham/London whose debut release The Bull is a straight shot for my heart. With deep drawling baritone vocals and gauzy guitar whorls, they reel me in. The Bull is like The National gone shoegaze, with a lavish dose of 80s new wave and angular post-punk not unlike how Joy Division sounded. Marry those two together and it would probably sound very similar to Supercaan’s The Bull! Its layers build upon one another until we reach great heights of cathartic release. According to their Bandcamp, Supercaan’s debut album has been written and demoed over a four year period. Hopefully it’ll see the light of day soon so we can dive in for an eager listen. You can purchase Supercaan’s debut single The Bull via Bandcamp, here.