London based 3-piece Night Tapes today share new single ‘storm’, taken from their anticipated debut album portals//polarities, which will be released via Nettwerk Music Group on September 26th. To support the album, the band will embark on a lengthy UK/EU, including a headline show at London’s Village Underground. Recent singles have won widespread support from DIY, Notion, Wonderland, The Line Of Best Fit, Clash plus sustained support at BBC Radio1.
Speaking on the new single, Night Tapes say;
“Convenience comes with a cost and annoyance is the price we sometimes pay for connection. Going to see your friend when you’re feeling tired. calling your family when you’re feeling sad, going to the video shoot even if there’s a storm predicted. Taking yourself out anyhow. Or even showing up to the uncomfortable feelings within. The ability to confide in yourself at the right time. Sometimes the things we need to do when a storm is coming are counterintuitive. If there is a tidal wave coming and you’re on a boat on the sea, you need to go into the wave to get on top of it before it breaks. But I feel like most of us would try to ignore the wave for as long as possible, before doing the really scary counterintuitive thing. Our brains are designed to keep us safe, even if that means captivity of some sorts”
Most bands would say their music is a product of their environment, but it’s true for none more than Night Tapes. On the London trio’s extraordinary, dazzling debut album, portals//polarities, the band take you inside the places and sounds of its creation around the globe. Across the album, you’ll hear a bubbling swamp in Tallinn, Estonia, wildlife and birdsong from Mexico, a Los Angeles police helicopter and more. It’s a deeply immersive and wildly exploratory first full statement from a unique and thrilling act.
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.