Atom Brigade, by Atom Brigade

Atom Brigade

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1.	We Are Atom Brigade 04:08	buy track
2.	(We Never) Made It To Forever (featuring Star Madman) 04:18	buy track
3.	Little Town (featuring Oliver Cherer) 03:33	buy track
4.	Breathe Breakdown 04:08	buy track
5.	If I Want To (featuring Oliver Cherer) 03:10	buy track
6.	Oh Bader Meinhof (featuring Oliver Cherer) 05:20	buy track
7.	Safe Travels 05:08	buy track
8.	Wet Sand 04:21	buy track
9.	New Illusion (featuring Star Madman) 04:45	buy track

about

Gloriously assured, Atom Brigade is a zeitgeist conjuration of 80's post-punk electro-pop; achingly cool, dead-pan & freshly baked.

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Atom Brigade is the debut album from an online 'super group' consisting of Martin Jensen (aka The Home Current), Rupert Lally, Amanda Jay (aka Star Madman) & Oliver Cherer (aka Gilroy Mere, Dollboy & many more).

Jensen reached out to Lally in 2020, sketching out the idea to workshop some new material via long distance file sharing (Jensen and Lally are based in Luxembourg & Switzerland respectively). Work began In earnest the following year, as musical arrangements began to be fleshed out, gradually finding coherent shape through a process of collaborative osmosis.

Reflecting on their process, Lally recalls the collective to and fro:
"Martin sent over a bunch of ideas, which generally included a beat, a bass line, and maybe some sort of melodic idea. I then overdubbed guitars and synths... Neither of us told the other what sort of things to play or what type of sounds to use. "

Jensen adds, "It was a very straightforward, natural and intuitive exercise. In addition, Rupert sent a couple of unfinished tracks for me to add to, and everything eventually went into the pot of music we stirred up."

At an advanced stage, it became clear that some tracks would benefit from vocal treatment to round things off. With previous experience of their work, Jensen recommended UK based Oliver Cherer & US solo-artist Amanda Jay. This proved to be an inspired move, adding the final flourishes to a remarkable album.

Stepping back from the intricate stages of such a multi-layered process, spanning both continents and time, it is striking how these interactions evolved into such a musically coherent and thematically complete creation. There is a warm sense of head nodding familiarity throughout, invoking the spirit of some forgotten record box classic brought back to the future.

credits

released August 11, 2023

Martin Jensen: Synths, Drums, Bass, Programming
thehomecurrent.bandcamp.com

Rupert Lally: Guitars, Synths, Backing Vocals
rupertlally.bandcamp.com

Star Madman: Vocals, Piano (tracks 2 & 9)
starmadman.bandcamp.com

Oliver Cherer: Vocals, Backing Vocals
(tracks 3, 5 & 6)
www.olivercherer.co.uk

Written and produced by Rupert Lally and Martin Jensen, except tracks 2 and 9: co-written by Amanda Jay and tracks 3, 5 and 6: co-written by Oliver Cherer

Artwork and mastering by Dan Seville

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