Please Note: Now available at a lower cost!! Fire Records are proud to herald the return of New Zealand/New York City legends Bailterspace, who offer up their best album to date with their first new recordings in 13 years. The band were once described by Pitchfork as "simultaneously beautiful, jagged, atonal, and supremely melodic" and 'Strobosphere' emerges at a time when the band's trailblazing sound has never been more relevant. Revered as one of the loudest and most intense live bands of all-time, they haven't lost any of their bite or their love of tone, dissonance, and melody. The first single "No Sense" darts, snaps and swirls with alternating snare cracks, atmospheric surges and dirty buzz, featuring Parker's distinctive vocals.
November 13 street date. Fire Records are proud to herald the return of New Zealand/New York City legends Bailterspace, who offer up their best album to date with their first new recordings in 13 years. The band were once described by Pitchfork as "simultaneously beautiful, jagged, atonal, and supremely melodic" and 'Strobosphere' emerges at a time when the band's trailblazing sound has never been more relevant. Revered as one of the loudest and most intense live bands of all-time, they haven't lost any of their bite or their love of tone, dissonance, and melody. The first single "No Sense" darts, snaps and swirls with alternating snare cracks, atmospheric surges and dirty buzz, featuring Parker's distinctive vocals.
October 1 street date. Following a triumphant return last year that saw them tearing through the main stage at the Laneway Festival and further cement their deserved reputation as one of the loudest bands of all-time, the original lineup of New Zealand legends Bailterspace now unleash a new album of thundering psychgaze with trinine. Alister Parker creates more jaw-dropping guitar tones in each song here than most bands could even dream of in their lifetime. Brent MacLachlan's tight drum kit snaps and cracks and drives behind the squalling riffs as John Halvorsen's bass grumbles and forms a thudding atmosphere. The barely contained power of the band always pushing at the seams, as few bands have ever harnessed the ability to walk that edge quite like Bailterspace. Parker continues to drop vocals in almost as if he has to find a quick hit in-between the wall of noise madness behind him. Returning to record together again in New York City, the trio don’t look back for a second as they fashion a howling and maddeningly hazy beast of an album that challenges any band today to match it for intensity as it careens about wounded and dazed through the city streets, forming a soundtrack for late nights gone sideways in an unfamiliar town.
October 1 street date. 500 only LP with pull out poster. Following a triumphant return last year that saw them tearing through the main stage at the Laneway Festival and further cement their deserved reputation as one of the loudest bands of all-time, the original lineup of New Zealand legends Bailterspace now unleash a new album of thundering psychgaze with trinine. Alister Parker creates more jaw-dropping guitar tones in each song here than most bands could even dream of in their lifetime. Brent MacLachlan's tight drum kit snaps and cracks and drives behind the squalling riffs as John Halvorsen's bass grumbles and forms a thudding atmosphere. The barely contained power of the band always pushing at the seams, as few bands have ever harnessed the ability to walk that edge quite like Bailterspace. Parker continues to drop vocals in almost as if he has to find a quick hit in-between the wall of noise madness behind him. Returning to record together again in New York City, the trio don’t look back for a second as they fashion a howling and maddeningly hazy beast of an album that challenges any band today to match it for intensity as it careens about wounded and dazed through the city streets, forming a soundtrack for late nights gone sideways in an unfamiliar town.
February 12 street date. Bailter Space's "Wammo" is back in print for the first time since the album's release 25 years ago. The LP is pressed onto limited transparent orange vinyl and features newly remastered audio from the original session reels. Formed in Christchurch, New Zealand in 1987 as Nelsh Bailter Space, the band's musical family tree touches on some of the nation's most revered weirdo luminaries - including Flying Nun mainstays like the Skeptics, the Clean, and the Gordons. Bailter Space embraced chaos, but celebrated precision, finding melody amid networks of brooding noise and feedback. After relocating to New York City, the band - who by then included Alister Parker, John Halvorsen, and Brent McLachlan - arrived on Matador in time for the US release of "Robot World" (1993). "Wammo" was the trio's third and final full-length with the label (their fifth album overall) and was among its most tuneful efforts (relatively speaking!). At the time, music scribes were a bit puzzled by the record's "accessibility". In the rear view, though, we can recognize "Wammo" for the perfectly melancholy and drone-laced brain-zap that it is.
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