MOULD have announced their debut album and it arrives with serious momentum behind it. ‘Hoping As A Coping Mechanism’ drops July 10th via 5dB Records, a 13-track full-length produced by Sean Oakley, who flew in from LA specifically for the project, and recorded at 5dB Studios in London. New single “Falling Posture” is out now and makes an immediate case for what the Bristol trio have been building toward.
“Falling Posture” opens with a cacophonous blast of noise before locking into a rattling punk number and then dropping out into an unexpected slacker final third. Vocalist and bassist Kane Eagle describes it as a “Frankenstein song,” made of seemingly disparate ingredients bolted together into something exciting and surprising. The lyrical content is equally direct: “It’s about the pressures of staying positive whilst being bombarded with life’s expectations. Getting caught up and stuck in a loop of your own and others’ expectations of what success is. Doing so never really leads to anything positive.”
The band frames the album with the kind of self-aware confidence that suggests they know exactly what they’ve made. “The collective sum of our combined beans condensed into half an hour of unrelenting bangers,” they say. “As an album it has a lot more range than anything we’ve done before, a refining of our strengths, with a lot of focus on dynamics, structure and melody.” The album follows BBC 6 Music-playlisted lead single “Float,” released last November, and across 13 tracks explores what MOULD call the horrors of the outside world and the internal minefield of the brain.
Oakley’s production credits include Georgia and Sorry, and his involvement signals a band operating with serious intent. Written in snatches of time in Bristol, the record captures a live band’s energy translated directly to tape, and the press has noticed. Rolling Stone UK calls them a band with “spit-and-sawdust ferocity that makes them stand out on their own.” Dork describes them as “fast spreading musical gold, ready to bloom into one of the UK’s most exciting new acts.” DIY, NME, The Line Of Best Fit, Rough Trade, and Brooklyn Vegan have all added their voices alongside BBC 6 Music support from Huw Stephens and Amy Lamé and Radio X coverage from John Kennedy.
‘Hoping As A Coping Mechanism’ is out July 10th via 5dB Records.
Track Listing:
Misanthrope
Float
Emotive Language
Tapes
Lucid
Hatching
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Superseded
“Falling Posture”
Reshaping Nothing
Lists
Decades
Humm