To coincide with the release of her latest album LATE SLAP, released today on Full Time Hobby, Dana Gavanski has shared a video for ‘Singular Coincidence’ from the multifaceted record. Directed by Danny Nellis (Metronomy, Sweet Baboo) the dreamlike video see’s Gavanski joined by co-producer James Howard as well as Dave B Miller & Dimi Ntontis from her band. Gavanski contemplates ‘the feeling of fear and the ignorance that governs a lot of human interaction’ as she tries to ‘reclaim what makes human connection precious and powerful’. ‘Most people most of the time don’t know what they’re talking about, and yet they speak so passionately and combatively, often deepening the divide.
LATE SLAP, Gavanski’s third album, gives voice to the highs and lows of the mindscape in all its joys and terrors, injecting some much-needed playfulness into the process of writing about emotionally hard things. “The album holds together the seemingly disparate aspects of my character that I have sometimes tried to repress,” says Dana. “With this album I’m letting them into the room, celebrating them for all their strangeness – a strangeness which I think we all, on some level, share.”
Recorded with Mike Lindsay (Tunng, LUMP) at MESS, the producer’s studio in Margate, with her five-piece band, which includes co-producer James Howard (Rozi Plain, Alabaster dePlume). “I knew Mike could help me find the range of sound I was looking for; he has an amazing attention to sonic detail and we’ve worked well together on previous records.” Lindsay acquired a Yamaha DX7 synth at Dana’s request just for the album, and they used it to conjure an atmosphere of digital warmth that recalls the Beverly Glenn-Copeland’s meditative masterpiece Keyboard Fantasies.
LATE SLAP is what its title suggests—a sudden jolt, a shock to the system that seeks to reconnect with the messy flesh-and-thought humanity of simply being human. The album’s tension between cynicism and trust, openness and despair, melodrama and silliness.
Live dates:
April
5th – Brighton Resident [instore]
6th – Leeds The Vinyl Whistle [instore]
7th – Glasgow Monorail [instore]
19th – Rotterdam Motel Mozaique
May
22nd – Brighton The Albert
24th – Norwich Arts Centre
25th – Ramsgate Music Hall
26th – Oxford Common Ground
27th – Bristol Beacon
29th – Manchester SOUP
30th – Wharf Chambers Leeds
31st – The Hug & Pint Glasgow
June
1st – The Common Room Newcastle
2nd – The Crescent York
4th – The Lower Third London
July
26th – Deer Shed Festival Yorkshire
28th – Summer Camp Festival Cornwall
August
1st – Bal Des Incoherents Kuusamo, Finland
17th – Just So Festival Cheshire
30th – Smugglers Festival Deal
November
6th St Gallen CH Palace
7th Offenback DE Hafen 2
8th Amsterdam NL Cinitol
9th Brussels BE La Botanique
12th Munster DE Pension Schmidt
14th Stockholm SE Hus7
15th Gothenberg SE Pustervik
Photo credit – Jack Tennant