Night Tapes – announce debut album ‘portals // polarities’ + Announce headline tour to include Dublin date and share new song ‘pacifico’

Elusive London based 3-piece Night Tapes today announce their anticipated debut album portals//polarities, which will be released via Nettwerk Music Group on September 26th. The band also today share new single pacifico and announce plans for a UK tour, including a headline show at London’s Village Underground. 

Speaking on the new trip-hop inspired single, Night Tapes say; 

“pacifico was written after our friend returned from Mexico (San Jose del Pacifico) and told us stories about how beautiful it was. It’s about our idea of Pacifico – like a state of mind you can reach, as we still haven’t been there. This is our homage to 93 ‘til infinity by Souls of Mischief” 

Mixing personal and political, Night Tapes‘ music thrives on humanity and connection. Making music togetherin a shared housein south east London, the songs of Iiris Vesik, Max Doohanand Sam “Richie”Richards had to be quiet to avoid disturbing neighbours. “It was about capturing the vibe of the house,” Vesik remembers, then realising that the songs “became time capsules of the different places we were.” For Richards, each song comes with a specific and clear memory of the surroundings in which it was created. “It feels like a flipbook of that time,” he says.

 “The album is an exploration of energies and an exploration into my soul. I go into the spectrality of my being and into different polarities within myself. I would like to understand myself and to understand relationships I have with myself and others because I’m trying to change the small things in order to tackle the big ones. I’m just trying to be as honest as possible because lies are prisons. I’m from a country that used to be under authoritarian rule. I am really grateful to have been born in a free country and I value freedom above most things,” Estonian-born Iiris, who was in the womb during the Singing Revolution that freed her country, says of the record. 

1. enter
2. television 
3. swordsman
4. Lemon tree midnight 
5. babygirl (like no1 else)
6. pacifico 
7. tokyo sway 
8.masterplan
9. helix
10. patience (waiting for the setting sun)
11. leave it all behind, Mike
12. storm 
13. wayfarer 

Pre-order

https://nighttapes.ffm.to/portalspolarities

Tour Dates

July 31st – Wilderness Festival
August 20th – London Lord’s
August 23rd – Lost Village Festival
September 19th – Reeperbahn Festival, Hamburg
November 8th – Iceland Airwaves Festival, Nasa, Reykyavik
November 11th – Antwerp, TRIX
November 12th – Amsterdam, Paradiso,
November 13th – Groningen, VERA
November 15th – Hannover, Cafe Glocksee
November 16th – Berlin, Urban Spree
November 17th – Paris, Point Éphémère
November 19th – Utrecht, EKKO
November 20th – Rotterdam, Rotown
November 30th – London, Village Underground
December 2nd – Bristol, Exchange
December 3rd – Liverpool, District
December 4th – Leeds, Belgrave Music Hall
December 5th – Manchester, YES
December 6th – Dublin, The Sound House 

Tickets available from Friday 10am CET, May 24th