Hello and welcome to episode 170 of the ACPG podcast.
This week Ben zooms with Hugh and Danny of the band Gengahr. Ben caught them in the middle of an instore tour. Or Instoring if you will. Just after the release of their fourth album Red Sun Titans.
They spoke about the new album, the production, touring and so much more.
‘Red Sun Titans’ is an album that sets Gengahr on an exciting new trajectory. Having passed through the happy-to-be-here phase of debut album ‘A Dream Outside’ [2015] and traversed the baggage of adversity and tragedy that underpinned ‘Where Wildness Grows’ [2018] and ‘Sanctuary’ [2020], ‘Red Sun Titan’s sees the band wrestle free from those energies to set sail anew, in what frontman Felix Bushe says is all about “dreaming of where you could go from here.”
Entering the studio with Matt Glasbey (alt-J, Coldplay) producing and mixing - with executive production by Charlie Andrew (Wolf Alice, London Grammar, Bloc Party, alt-J) – the band saw a chance to revisit the origins of where their creativity came from. The album developed out of self-analysis and resultingly is one of two distinct sides: one a naive counterpart longing to exist in a simpler state, and another about checking your ego and coming to terms with great loss. ‘Red Sun Titans’ sits at that crossroads where the past is still in view and to be learned from, but the future is there for the taking. It’s the ambitious, unrestrained and widescreen statement Gengahr have always threatened to make.
Thank you to Hugh and danny for talking to us. And to Jay for sorting out the time and space.
See you next week for Local Natives.
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