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God Is An Astronaut (post-rock) new album - ORIGINS is out

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Messofanego

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OUT NOW on Bandcamp

"The CD/LP is available exclusively right now from Rocket Girl ahead of the general release on September 16th."

http://rocketgirl.co.uk/label/release/rgirl98

http://rocketgirl.co.uk/label/release/rgirl98LP

Website: http://www.superadmusic.com/god/

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Genre: post-rock, alternative rock

Singles:
Spiral Code
Reverse World

Tracklist

1. The Last March (04:44)
2. Calistoga (04:30)
3. Reverse World (05:10)
4. Transmissions (04:03)
5. Weightless (04:12)
6. Exit Dream (03:31)
7. Signal Rays (04:07)
8. Autumn Song (03:47)
9. Spiral Code (04:13)
10. Strange Steps (04:55)
11. Red Moon Lagoon (04:45)
12. Light Years From Home (05:08)

Also we are excited to announce that all pre-orders will start shipping from tomorrow as we have an overwhelming amount of orders to ship. (Rocket Girl HQ is running out of space and no doubt the post office will struggle too!)

Finally you can download the new album in MP3 or WAV format directly from itunes and our website.

https://itunes.apple.com/ie/album/origins/id677899650

http://www.godisanastronaut.com/shop.html

2013 Tour Dates
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http://www.godisanastronaut.com/tourdates.html

Please mark your attendance if you have:

FACEBOOK

https://www.facebook.com/godiaa/events

LAST FM

http://www.last.fm/music/God+Is+An+Astronaut/+events
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God is an Astronaut’s seventh full-length album, Origins, is their first as a five-piece and cements their place as one of the world’s most intense, musically and visually-inventive post rock bands. Renowned for their searing live shows in which the music is married with provocative projected imagery, GIAA consider each of their albums to be a sonic ‘photograph or snapshot of who we are in that moment of time’ and Origins is perhaps their most saturated, striking snapshot to date.

Comprising a dozen tracks, Origins fluctuates from controlled ferment (‘Calistoga’) to plaintive, piano-led reverie (‘Autumn Song’) to rhapsodic, unapologetically melodic fever (‘Signal Rays’) while never losing its focus. A wide spectrum of emotions are conjured over the course of the album and, while half of the tracks feature vocals, the voices have been laden with resonant swathes of effects so as to retain a similar ambiguity to the instrumentals. It is this ambiguity that lends Origins its power. The song titles are evocative but never prescriptive: for instance, a southern Californian town is suggested in ‘Calistoga’ while the effect-fogged lyrics speak of finding light in a seemingly hopeless situation. Perseverance in times of emotional hardship appears to be the overriding theme of Origins, though it has always been the juxtaposition of seemingly disparate sounds, words and visuals that afford GIAA their singularity. The listener’s interpretation of the music is as valid as the emotions that inspired the band to make it.

Origins is notable also in GIAA’s return to Rocket Girl records, who licensed the band’s breakthrough album, All is Violent, All is Bright in 2005. In the eight years since then, GIAA have continued to release albums and an EP on their own Revive Records (A Moment of Stillness EP, 2006, Far From Refuge, 2007, God is an Astronaut, 2008 and Age of the Fifth Sun, 2010), amassing a vast following on social media sites (150,000 fans on Facebook, half a million listeners on lastfm.com) and touring extensively, establishing themselves as Ireland’s most intense, incandescent live act.

The band was founded in 2002 in Glen of the Downs, Co. Wicklow by twins Niels and Torsten Kinsella, and since then has expanded to include Lloyd Hanney (drums), Jamie Dean (piano/synths) and Gazz Carr (guitar). During the recording of Origins, the band were additionally joined by Pat O’Donnell on vocals, guitar and keyboards, and the album’s more vocal-led, experimental guitar approach is due in no small part to The Fountainhead frontman, who co-wrote many of the songs alongside Torsten.

Although sounding like GIAA the new album features a new vocal direction & a more experimental guitar approach. Experimenting with ‘a multitude of stompboxes’, the newly bolstered line-up gives the songs an added richness, apparent on Origins perhaps most obviously on the first single, ‘Spiral Code’. The guitars twist and tangle joyously over a backdrop of energetic beats and hi-hats, creating a sound that could just as easily bring feet to a dancefloor as it could bring solace to someone listening in solitude. All in all, Origins is a sublime, multifaceted album, parading a sound which has been painstakingly honed and is as forward-looking as it is faithful to the band’s own origins and influences eleven years back.

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Already booked my ticket for the London Electric Ballroom show at Sunday Sept. 22nd.

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Time to listen to this sucker.
 
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Messofanego

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Oh man, "Weightless" is so fucking good. Rocking my socks off.

I can see "Strange Steps" become a classic among fans.

Man, this album is great. All my feels with the last song "Light Years From Home". Should be used in a movie with astronauts.
 
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Messofanego

Banned
Just came back from the God Is An Astronaut concert. Feel absolutely knackered! Chest thumping, ears ringing, whole body shaking, sweating all over, throat dry from all the "woohoo"s, and recording the whole thing! It's one thing to hear GIAA on even expensive headphones, it's another experience to see the band and the audience jumping up and down, rocking even harder than the studio versions of the songs.

I need to go take a shower now XD

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aph_elion

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Saw them live 2 years ago and got them to sign my All is Violent, All is Bright vinyl.
Really nice guys, especially the keyboard player.

Hope the new album is better than Age of the Fifth Sun which was a bit of a let down.
 
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Cassius

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One of my all time favorite bands.

So, I've only listened through once but I think it's pretty good.

It's great to hear from them again.
 
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aph_elion

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Messofanego said:
They played a lot of All Is Violent on the concert, made me happy as that's my favourite album. They rock so much harder live, it's crazy. I don't think any video can even convey this.

If they played Shores of Orion especially the outro, it'd be a perfect gig.
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Suicide by Star live was just insane, the studio version can't compare.
 
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Einhander

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This is a great band. I just wish the vocals could be more distinguished and not meshing with the instrumentals. It still works very well, but I would've liked traditional singing like in most other bands.
 
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