Fresh from supporting DIIV on their Benelux tour, Disorientations shares the openings track from their brand-new album Lost Today. Loner wastes no time in introducing itself; a fuzzy gliding guitarriff, thumping drums and a tight bass keep us in line. Singer & frontman Niels Elsermans’ dramatic howl adding drama to this sharp 2min40 postpunk banger topped off with a Cure-esque solo in the bridge. A great way to kick of an album and another top notch release from this hidden Belgian underground rock band.
Belgian post-punk trio Disorientations will release their sophomore album Lost Today on April 19 via [PIAS] Recordings. The album shows a huge leap in the band’s songwriting confidence. 'Lost Today' combines their harsh emotional sound, the raw rhythmic power and the captivating vocals with more in-depth songwriting. The album is a collection of introspective and haunting songs and embodies the compelling moods and emotions of the members of the band.
Listen to Loner here: disorientations.ffm.to/loner
Pre-order the new album Lost Today here: disorientations.ffm.to/losttoday
After the release of their noisy and compelling debut album Memory Lanes, Disorientations started thinking about the path to that difficult 'second one'. As before, they crawled boldly into their rehearsal room and started endless jams that were recorded and re-listened. They found inspiration in the classic 'band idea' where everyone plays an essential role in the writing process. A romantic idea that works but takes a huge amount of energy and time. The band's identity is fully determined by the entirety of its members. No one played a decisive role in the earlier writing processes. Writing together had become a habit. However, the search for new songs turned out to be not that easy, because avoiding flat tracks is less obvious than thought.
Writing Lost Today came with a lot of energy and pitfalls, but that fragile and somewhat clumsy quest to new creativity also became the subject of the new record. Just like life, the music writing process contained a lot of contradictions: emotions of love and loathing, connection and isolation and hope and despair were knitted all together in an intense creative process where attraction to write and inclination to give up alternated with each other. It led to a collection of haunting and introspective songs that dive into the mind of someone that is searching for a right attitude while facing things that are difficult to understand.
Musically, there was a search for new ways to complete the songs. By experimenting with digital home recordings before rehearsing live, they created room for atypical song structures. After the basics of the album emerged organically from the band members, the sound was eagerly worked on in pre-production sessions with producer and musician Thomas Valkiers, who played a key role in the development of a more layered and compelling sound who gave the songs more balance and refreshing second guitar lines. This process opened up an exciting path towards an alternative and mature sound that seems to reconcile the sharp bursts of noise rock, the melancholic atmosphere of post-punk and an airy wall of sound reminiscent of the early 90s shoegaze vibe.
With Lost Today, Disorientations seems ready to take a whole new path. A musical search that seeks to capture a complex palette of emotions, in a world that seems lost in its own contradictions.
After the release of their noisy and compelling debut album Memory Lanes, Disorientations started thinking about the path to that difficult 'second one'. As before, they crawled boldly into their rehearsal room and started endless jams that were recorded and re-listened. They found inspiration in the classic 'band idea' where everyone plays an essential role in the writing process. A romantic idea that works but takes a huge amount of energy and time. The band's identity is fully determined by the entirety of its members. No one played a decisive role in the earlier writing processes. Writing together had become a habit. However, the search for new songs turned out to be not that easy, because avoiding flat tracks is less obvious than thought.
Writing Lost Today came with a lot of energy and pitfalls, but that fragile and somewhat clumsy quest to new creativity also became the subject of the new record. Just like life, the music writing process contained a lot of contradictions: emotions of love and loathing, connection and isolation and hope and despair were knitted all together in an intense creative process where attraction to write and inclination to give up alternated with each other. It led to a collection of haunting and introspective songs that dive into the mind of someone that is searching for a right attitude while facing things that are difficult to understand.
Musically, there was a search for new ways to complete the songs. By experimenting with digital home recordings before rehearsing live, they created room for atypical song structures. After the basics of the album emerged organically from the band members, the sound was eagerly worked on in pre-production sessions with producer and musician Thomas Valkiers, who played a key role in the development of a more layered and compelling sound who gave the songs more balance and refreshing second guitar lines. This process opened up an exciting path towards an alternative and mature sound that seems to reconcile the sharp bursts of noise rock, the melancholic atmosphere of post-punk and an airy wall of sound reminiscent of the early 90s shoegaze vibe.
With Lost Today, Disorientations seems ready to take a whole new path. A musical search that seeks to capture a complex palette of emotions, in a world that seems lost in its own contradictions.
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10.05.2024 — TRIX, ANTWERPEN
01.06.2024 — DE SNUFFEL, BRUGGE
28.09.2024 — PELTER SKELTER, PELT
