UK’s longstanding electronic duo Psapp, known for their twinkly theme for hit TV show Grey’s Anatomy, has unveiled their first album in over four years! Titled What Makes Us Glow (Out 11/11 via The state51 Conspiracy), the longplayer is making its debut courtesy of popular blog aggregator Hype Machine a special two weeks ahead of its release. One can hear all 12 new songs now at the links provided above. Of What Makes Us Glow HypeM shares, “On their long-awaited fourth full-length album… the London-based duo take us somewhere entirely new.” First single, “Everything Belongs to the Sun”is also Today’s Top Tune at KCRW – download it now.
What Makes Us Glow is a vast hyper-color psychedelic whirl of an album, with intricate orchestration, layered vocals and a pioneering spirit. After a long unexpected hibernation, big changes had happened in Psapp world – the two found the things that “make them glow” had changed. Their studio moved to a castle in Germany complete with turrets, and extreme domesticity has been celebrated and explored.
Scored with home built instruments, What Makes Us Glow is bursting with swampy drones of recorded ambience and plenty of raw sounds. Psapp relish in combining unusual musical elements (this record includes Galia’s rhythmic snores, boxes of writhing mealworms, their homemade boneaphone – a marimba made from bones – and the groans of milk-laden cows) alongside the more standard instruments: piano, violin, oud and organs, as the two have become known for. From the jazzy staccato laced “In The Black” and the poppy “Your Hot Knife,” to the tribal tinged “Everything Belongs to the Sun” that highlights the bands impressive/unique percussion paired with layer upon layer of Galia’s exquisite voice, this is not an album of a band finding their way; it is the sound of band having arrived at their destination.
Everything Belongs to the Sun (Single 1) on Soundcloud
“Your Hot Knife” (Acoustic Video) on Youtube
“Seven” (Acoustic Video) on Youtube