Fresh from winning a Norwegian Grammy for the critically acclaimed album Solar Anus, Årabrot are returning to the UK in February with 8 concert dates around the country.
Solar Anus was released fall 2011 and is the fifth album by Norwegian noise rock act Årabrot. The album was hailed as one of MOJO’s top 10 underground albums of 2011 and ended the best of 2011 lists in Rock a Rolla, NME, Metal Hammer, The Quietus and Stool Pigeon to name a few. Their previous album, REVENGE from 2010, marked the "end of an era and the beginning of something new". While the first four Årabrot albums showed a staggering level of ambition and a sense of musical dramaturgy like no other band, Solar Anus shows a band that has found its form, the ambitions and latent genius of the past has come into light.
All of the eight tracks that make out Solar Anus are recorded and mixed by Steve Albini, known for his work with Pixies, Nirvana and his own bands Big Black and Shellac. Albini’s stripped down approach to recording fit well with Årabrot’s arrangements, consisting of nothing more than drums, vocals and a baritone guitar. After finishing the main recordings Årabrot collaborator Concept.Virus infested some of the tracks with electronics, but still most of the tracks were kept clean, open and focused on the primitive force of rhythms, chords and guttural vocals spitting out filthy prose.
More information about Årabrot here and you can listen to Solar Anus here.
UK tour dates:
Feb 22. Stag and Hounds, Bristol, United Kingdom
Feb 23. The Lamp, Hull, United Kingdom
Feb 24. The Unicorn, London, United Kingdom - w/ Manatees
Feb 25. Islington Mill, Manchester, United Kingdom
Feb 26. Bannermans, Edinburgh, United Kingdom - w/ Manatees
Feb 27. 13th Note, Glasgow, United Kingdom
Feb 28. Royal Park Cellars Leeds, United Kingdom - w/ Super Luxury
Feb 29. Shacklewell Arms, London – w/Poino and Throne