Advance Base, the long-running undertaking led by Owen Ashworth, has introduced a brand new album: Horrible Occurrences arrives December 6 by way of Run for Cowl. The primary single, ‘The Yr I Lived In Richmond’, is out now, and you’ll hearken to it beneath.
Discussing the brand new single, Ashworth defined: “I’ve by no means lived in a spot known as Richmond. ‘The Yr I Lived in Richmond’ describes my reminiscences of a sequence of violent crimes that occurred in a metropolis the place I briefly lived within the early 2000’s. (Right here’s a touch: it has the identical cadence as Richmond.) I haven’t been in a position to corroborate the occasions by means of web searches or conversations with outdated associates from that interval of my life. Perhaps I dreamt up the entire thing? I actually don’t know. Over time, the occasions turned a type of private thriller, after which that thriller turned a music. The music took on a lifetime of its personal, a fiction extra vivid than my hazy reminiscences, with its personal particular particulars and invented names. I’ve been dwelling with some model of this music in my head for greater than twenty years now and it lastly appears like the best time to share it with you.”
Commenting on the accompanying video, Ashworth added:
I made associates with the painter Aaron Sewards round fifteen years in the past, when his outdated band (I Know I Have No Collar) and my outdated band (Casiotone for the Painfully Alone) performed our first of a number of exhibits collectively in Aaron’s former residence of Bristol, England. Aaron painted stunning watercolor posters for our exhibits. Within the years since, Aaron moved to Japan and I moved to the suburbs, and because of Instagram, I’ve continued to admire Aaron’s watercolors from afar. Just a few years again, I requested Aaron to color Little Sable Level Lighthouse, a lighthouse in Michigan that I wrote an Advance Base music about (it’s on the brand new album). Alongside along with his lighthouse portray, Aaron despatched a brief animation of the portray in progress and it simply regarded like magic to me. I requested Aaron if he would make a full music video of animated landscapes for ‘The Yr I Lived in Richmond.’ I cherished the nostalgic high quality of his panorama work and the best way they appeared to conjure reminiscences that felt concurrently acquainted and dreamlike. Aaron additionally shared my fascination with the Midwestern United States. His landscapes appeared like they’d be an ideal match for a music a few center American city that solely exists in creativeness. Aaron and I mentioned every scene described within the music’s lyrics and I despatched him some reference images that I’d taken round my residence in Oak Park, Illinois. Via the filter of Aaron’s watercolors, every picture turns into a tangible location within the obscure nowhere place of Richmond, the imaginary American city I describe within the music’s lyrics. The work turn out to be the reminiscences of the narrator, coming into temporary focus after which fading away once more.
Horrible Occurrences follows 2018’s Animal Companionship and Ashworth’s 2021 covers album Wall of Tears & Different Songs I Didn’t Write.
Horrible Occurrences Cowl Art work:
Horrible Occurrences Tracklist:
1. The Yr I Lived in Richmond
2. The Tooth Fairy
3. Large Chris Electrical
4. How You Bought Your Image on the Wall
5. Rene Goodnight
6. The One Concerning the Rabbit within the Snow
7. Brian’s Golden Hour
8. Little Sable Level Lighthouse
9. Andrew & Meagan
10. Premonition
11. Richmond
