Biography
Space travel can be a daunting task.
Imagine, if you will, that a band has traveled light-years through the foreboding expanse of the musical universe. Throughout their last few releases, The New Slave has explored vast constellations of sound. In 2008 the band worked closely with Jace Lasek of the Besnard Lakes (credits include Wolf Parade, Sunset Rubdown, Young Galaxy, SUUNS, Patrick Watson, Islands) writing, recording, and perfecting their 2009 debut, self-titled concept album. Traveling all over galactic sound blasts, The New Slave was looking for a place of settlement. The band has always been moving towards some unknown entity, logging their experiences with stripped-down lyrics, banks of gritty keyboards, a howling electric guitar, and acoustic textures. Like a time-honored metallic vessel traveling through the cosmos, their resonance is never ordinary and yet there will always be a comforting hum of turbines operating at full capacity. Although well-traveled, their ship has always ached for more adventure. The consequence is undoubtedly human; but being human isn't all it's cracked up to be. The band still hadn't settled on a sound they wanted to call home.
By 2010 The New Slave mothership set anchor on a cold, indifferent planet. The band's three members Craig M Clarke, Daniel Crowell, and Troy James suited up, and left their vehicle to seek out undiscovered soundscapes. What the band uncovered was a fresh approach to old feelings. No longer burdened by the fears of their old world, this new planet of sound gave them the much desired freedom to set their flag in the soil and create a new and unique musical life form. Collectively disregarding the peril of an untested atmosphere, they removed their life-giving breathing apparatus, and they took in their first breath of this new alien air. A new day had dawned and a new album was born. A genetic anomaly, the album has been crafted into a perfect blend of digital and analog harmony, satisfying even those with the coldest of hearts and the blackest of souls. The future is here; it is called "Forget Progress, Return to Instinct".
The New Slave has shared the stage with The Mountain Goats, The Besnard Lakes, Tobacco, The Hood Internet, Califone, Oakley Hall, Two Gallants, Film School, Scissors for Lefty, Von Iva and Loquat. Witch House.
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