Feral 5 make a return with single Silver Sky taken from their forthcoming album Fact Is The New Gold. The only is out digitally on 12 October, whereas the album will land 10 February 2023 on restricted vinyl, CD and digital with each releases marking a brand new collaborative partnership with unbiased label Reckless Sure.
About Silver Sky the band mentioned: “Silver Sky is a glittering and evocative track with a twist. Set in a feral metropolis, it’s a couple of sky that by no means will get darkish due to mild air pollution, one thing that scientists say is affecting animals and vegetation.
“There’s a necessity for change in addition to adaptation and it options silvered vocals, alien-like AI voices (educated in Berlin on Kat’s voice), massive beats, synths and performed crystals and asks ‘whose metropolis is that this?’”
The usage of AI (Synthetic Intelligence) vocals is an progressive tack taken elsewhere on the album too. Working with AI technologists Birds on Mars in Berlin their krach.ai instrument was educated on Kat’s voice, giving the Ferals an otherworldly ‘AI Kat’, performing alternately as instigator and truth-teller. It builds on the band’s earlier exploration of machine as musician, the place they’ve made use of 3D printing as an instrument and artistic collaborator.
The only is the primary launch for the band by means of the label Reckless Sure, and leads the best way for an album of true innovation, dazzling melodies, and boundary-defying themes. Silver Sky introduces a sonic world of multi-layered songs and hook-laden grooves all making use of a novel palette of instruments and devices, each hyper-modern and historical. From the AI vocals to stay coded sounds, strings, and performed quartz crystals, to the skillfully interwoven electronics, synths and guitars there’s a lot to discover and Silver Sky is simply the beginning…
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