Apocalypso, by Insect Heroes

Apocalypso

by Insect Heroes

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1.	Introduction 00:39	buy track
2.	Apocalypso 03:30	buy track
3.	Autobahn 03:10	buy track
4.	Strobe Light 03:17	buy track
5.	Fabulous 03:23	buy track
6.	Beautiful World 02:59	buy track
7.	Spacesuit 03:12	buy track
8.	Insect Heroes Theme 00:48	buy track
9.	Pop Music 03:34	buy track
10.	Bang Bang Bang 03:05	buy track
11.	Marionette 03:18	buy track
12.	A Man Like Me 03:12	buy track
13.	These Days 03:38	buy track
14.	Wooden Heart 04:02	buy track
15.	Good Night 00:31	buy track

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Introducing … self-styled purveyors of “tropical pop for the Apocalypse”, Insect Heroes! Their weirdly irresistible – or irresistibly weird, if you’d prefer – debut album Apocalypso was released on October 13th 2014.

Insect Heroes are a collection of classic British eccentrics and oddballs, based loosely around two nomadic doom mongers and mountaineering enthusiasts in the shape of Peak District born-and-raised, Scotland- based brothers George and Evan Thomas. In addition, the current line-up also includes fellow pilgrims Robin Ashton, Adam Campbell and Laurie Pitt, variously assigned to modular synthesiser, keytar, banjo, drums and percussion. It’s a surreal and psychedelic landscape they create, through which George’s helium-filled vocals and bittersweet lyricism drift like lost balloons, or clouds with silver linings. Expect huge pop hooks.

Apocalypso was recorded to 16 track analogue tape between May 2011 and November 2012 at Green Door Studio in Glasgow, with engineering from Emily Maclaren and Stuart Evans, and mastering by Sam Smith. Inspired by mountain climbs and long drives over the Pennines, transcendence on the dancefloor, music as an opiate and searching for the kind of love that lasts, it’s a curious and kaleidoscopically trippy collection, and yet eminently accessible too, framing George’s idiosyncratically skewed view of the world in all its mundane glory and evidencing his exceptional fluency in pop as a truly universal language.

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released October 13, 2014

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