Bdrmm - Port Ep - [Vinyl]

bdrmm release a new EP, featuring their acclaimed recent single �Port�, alongside remixes by Daniel Avery, Working Men�s Club, A Place To Bury Strangers and more. The seven-track Port EP will be released digitally and on CD on April 8, with a limited-edition orange vinyl 12� version following later in the year. The EP is the Hull and Leeds-based band�s first major release since their debut album, Bedroom, which was hailed as a latter-day shoegaze classic when it came out in July 2020. �Port�, which was originally released as a single last October, marked a major step forward for the band. Sounding not unlike the Low of Double Negative or Hey What deconstructing The Temptations� �I Know I�m Losing You�, it�s a much darker sounding song; its distorted drones and beats burst into life with frenzied guitar and howls of anguish. �It helped us consider the band in a much more fluid perspective,� says bassist and synth player Jordan Smith of the pivotal track. �Swapping instruments and redefining roles gave us time to spend working on new and more intriguing sonic ideas.� This new experimental and more electronic approach was expanded as the standalone single release grew, almost accidentally, into a full EP, which features radical reworkings by Daniel Avery (a fearless, all guns blazing techno stomper); Working Men�s Club (New Order�s �Sub-Culture� meets a long-lost early Warp Records classic); A Place To Bury Strangers (a feedback frenzy of total sonic annihilation); Tom Sharkett from Manchester krautpoppers W.H. Lung (DFA Records goes down to the death disco); Jonathan Snipes from LA-based experimental hip-hop trio Clipping (glitchy beats imploding into a wall of white noise); and Jordan himself, as Mouth Company, who brings proceedings to a close with a slow-mo trip-hop treatment. �The idea originally stemmed from us joking about Daniel Avery remixing one of our tracks one day and we just kind of went from there,� explains singer Ryan Smith of the EP�s unusual genesis. �We�d arranged a remix swap with A Place To Bury Strangers and then somehow managed to gather all these other incredible remixes over the space of a few months, and it seemed ridiculous not to release them as one piece of work. It�s a real journey listening to them individually, but back-to-back it really is something.� He�s right, the seven tracks hang together perfectly, like the best kind of mixtape, despite each one being so different from the next. �I think the sparseness of the original mix gave a fair amount of versatility to whoever wanted to mess around with the stems,� adds Jordan. �I think that shows in the final EP - six completely idiosyncratic mixes that we all fell in love with.� �To have so many influential artists to us putting their own piece of DNA on what has become such an important track to us is so humbling,� gushes Ryan. �It�s brand new territory for us, and we just feel so lucky to have everybody involved.� The EP is being released ahead of bdrmm�s dates supporting shoegaze legends Ride in April and will be followed by their eagerly-awaited second album, which they are currently working on.�I am so excited to embrace the next chapter of bdrmm,� concludes Ryan. �It�s been a fuccking tough ride, but one I never want to get off.�

Bdrmm - Port Ep - [Vinyl]

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