O Emperor have just announced some tour dates for June – The Forum, Waterford on 15th – Bourkes, Limerick 20th and Whelans, Dublin on 21st. The band will also play a special Cork show and add support slots very soon.
Their second album Vitreous is out on 14th June.
Vitreous is a follow up to the debut album Hither Thither released in October 2010.
It was self-recorded and produced in the band’s very own studio (Big Skin HQ) in Cork. Big Skin was (literally) built from the ground up and everything from label administration to recording happens inside its grubby, fire-stained walls. The resulting recordings are a direct representation of this operation, being the band’s most potent and distinct work to date; a stamp moulded from their many meandering sessions there.
While debut Hither Thither could be described as a lush tapestry displaying a classical use of depth and shading, Vitreous presents the listener with a starker, polychrome and pixelated picture. Heavily distorted drums take their place alongside syrupy analogue synths and disgusting fuzz guitars sounding like bees buzzing inside tin cans. Beautiful landscapes are destroyed with disparate, abrasive sounds in perverse displays of artistic self-destruction.
TRACK LISTING
1. Grandmother Mountain / 2. Holy Fool / 3. Whitener (Part 1) / 4. Brainchild / 5. Contact / 6. Minuet / 7. Land of the Living / 8. Soft In The Head / 9. This is it
O Emperor are: Paul Savage, Alan Comerford, Phil Christie, Brendan Fennessy and Richie Walsh.
