The left and chaotic sound of the BDMM photographs our times

We go from sounds and dark to dreams to dreams. At a certain point you end up in a pounding electronic vortex and then returns, between Electronics, Dream Pop and Post Rockinside a romantic atmosphere. The Hull quartet, Country of County East Riding of Yorkshire, BDMM returns with A new album, the third, entitled “Microtonic” to be released on February 28 for the rock action of the Mogwai. A record that looks like a photograph of our chaotic times, such as the soundtrack of our confused cities. The band will be in Italy for two concerts: Wednesday 26 March in Milan, Santeria Toscana 31, and Thursday 27 March in Bologna, TPO. The singer and guitarist Ryan Smith thus comments on the launch single “John on the ceiling” and the themes covered in the project: “The arguments are those of confusion and doubt. When something ends and another begins, you let yourself be dragged by a false sense of safety that the errors made will not be repeated. This happens several times until you are not paralyzed in limbo. Can people ever really change? ”

The ten songs of “Microtonic”, recorded with the longtime collaborator Alex Greaves and with the featuring of Syd Minsky-Sargeant of the Working Men’s Club and Olivesque dei Nightbusthey undoubtedly represent a courageous leap for the BDMM, who have embraced a wider spectrum of tones and atmospheres, playing with music and with genres as never before. “I felt very forced to write a certain type of music to adapt it to the genre for which we were known, But something has lifted up and I felt more free to create what I want“, Says Ryan Smith. Then he continues: “It is a somewhat dystopian record. Since there was the Lockdown, personally I don’t feel the same anymore. I think this is for everyone. The amount of anxiety that has blurred everything is almost unreal. It’s like an episode of Black Mirror“.

The characteristic sound of the BDRMM, in this third chapter, has not disappeared, the most guitar beginnings of the band were an imprint and An influence for many of the groups that are now reporting the Shoegaze to live a strong revival since its birth in the 80s to todaybut those guitars are now incorporated into a wider and more varied sound palette, all leaving the field to a strong electronic component. “Microtonic” follows “I Don’t Know” of 2023, an album that has been acclaimed by criticsand that consequently called “one of their most attractive projects”, while Rolling Stone UK described it as “a chaotic and exciting evolution”, and Brooklyn Vegan inserted him among the albums of the week by stating that “I Don’t Know” saw them “avoid the ‘repetition’ effect”. “Microtonic” is certainly a further evolution for the band, which returns to the scenes after “Bedromo” (2020) and “I Don’t Know” (2023)as written, and does it with a new journey into the folds of the contemporary.