Brighton shoegaze luminaries Air Formation have just released a new video for their track The Wasted Days. Check it out below!
Air Formation return on September 25th with Were We Ever Here, which is their first new material since reforming in 2014. Loosely based around the group of songs they were working on in 2010 before their split, the band worked on the EP in secret, stating “We thought it would be a more exciting, organic, experience if we just got on with it un-announced and released it as fast as we could.”
Air Formation formed in 2000, long before their spiritual forebears Slowdive and Loop were once again considered acceptable influences. Since signing to Club AC30, long a bastion of the modern shoegaze sound, in 2005, the band gained a devoted following and for albums such as 2007’s Daylight Storms (which was mastered by alternative rock legend Kramer) and their final LP, Nothing To Wish For (Nothing to Lose), in 2010. Their incendiary live show also saw them share stages with the likes of Vessels and Efterklang.
Ten years on from their first release for Club AC30, the 57 Octaves Below EP, the four songs on Were We Ever Here cover every corner of Air Formation’s sound, whilst adding surprising new touches. The swathes of feedback and distortion are all present and correct, along with swooping New Order synths. Slow-building opener I Could Stay comes to life in a swooning burst of fuzzed-up bass and hyperactive Ride-like drums. Closing track The Wasted Days takes the entire EP into another gear, shifting from kinetic drone-pop to expansive post-rock territory, bringing this record to a close in a shower of noise.
Track list:
I Could Stay
Last Resolve
On the Floor
The Wasted Days
