Falmouth's Low Harness announce debut album, Salvo, due 6th December via Krautpop! Records
Low Harness
Announce Debut Album, Salvo,
Due 6th December On Krautpop!
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Live Dates inc London's New River Studios on 15th December
New Falmouth-based band Low Harness announce debut album, Salvo, released via Krautpop! on 6th December.
Channelling atonality and noise alongside expansive shoegaze and hypnotic krautrock, Salvo captures a sense of instability and unknown terrors; political unrest, impending and current wars, economic crisis, environmental collapse and the loss of loved ones.
The album’s lead single and title track ‘Salvo’ acts as a linchpin for this pertinent unease. One of their heavier songs, it offers a commentary on the onslaught of violence that is a daily reality for global communities.
The band say of the track:
"The song Salvo is quite literally about the violence that is served out daily to global communities. The tension within the song and dissonance of tuning helped create that energy. Political artist Peter Kennard who created the LP sleeve helped inspire the video with his analogue photomontage style. The video was created using black and white photocopy’s of stock footage and phone photos and turned into stop motion animations or animated collage."
Low Harness - "Salvo"
https://youtu.be/BHvddNpHfJw
Streaming Services:
https://linktr.ee/lowharness
Album Preorder:
https://krautpop.bandcamp.com/album/salvo
Live Dates
25th October - Fish Factory Arts Space, Penryn
8th December - The Cornish Bank, Falmouth
11th December - Schokoladen, Berlin
15th December - New River Studios, London
More about Salvo...
“I feel fine” are the first three words – howled by Hannah Gledhill over a furious noise-rock squall – that commence Salvo. A phrase that acts as an affirmation against self-doubt, with album opener ‘Ready From the Start’ tackling self-criticism head-on with a propulsive can-do attitude, it also gets to the core of Low Harness’ debut offering – released via prolific Cornish label Krautpop!. What does it mean to feel fine, or more aptly how do we feel fine in the face of intensifying global and personal tumult.
This uncertainty and grappling with humanity, sits at the heart of Salvo. Fittingly, the artwork features imagery from Danger, Power – a piece from 1981 by renowned political artist Peter Kennard. A collaboration born out of Hannah and Peter’s friendship, the radical power of the artist’s work is ever relevant and enduring. It also carries a DIY punk spirit in harmony with that of Low Harness.
A union of four seasoned DIY minds, Low Harness was born in 2023 when they met through working at Penryn DIY hub the Fish Factory Arts Space. With Hannah and Martin Pease favouring alternative tunings, it was only a matter of time before they were writing together. Joined by Ed Shellard on drums and Alex Harmer on bass, the record emerged quickly after practising in a friend’s garage, with sonic touchpoints including 90s noise rock, Sonic Youth, Wire, MBV, Glenn Branca, and Einstürzende Neubauten. To finish writing Salvo, they took part in a week’s residency at local venue The Cornish Bank, before heading to an old 19th century chapel to record.
This organic urgency with which the record was written lends a propulsive dynamism to the tracks. It’s also balanced with an expansiveness, a sonic landscape that sees the angular and motorik style of Hannah and Ed’s previous projects combine with Martin and Alex’s noise and shoegaze stylings. Across the album, this manifests in a rich sound palette. There’s the brooding post-punk of apocalyptic manual ‘Exit Plan’, complete with Siouxsie Sioux vocals, and the pensive pedalboard-psych of ‘Forever In My Head’, a daydreaming song about inertia. ‘Blood Play’ sees the band musing on the extreme lengths people can go to for pleasure, with Broadcast-inspired vocals soaring over eerie pop melodies, and album closer ‘Admissions’ combines twanging, disco-punk with capacious noise, instrumental intervals featuring prominently throughout.
On the simultaneously tender and furious ‘Lungs’ – a track about grief and the loss of a sibling – Hannah meditatively drawls “if everything’s taken away/ what is love for?”. It’s a powerful and raw line that captures something of the vital essence that the band has poured into this debut; Salvo is a strikingly confident introduction to a band who refuse to look the other way.
Salvo Tracklist:
1. Ready From The Start
2. Exit Plan
3. Too Long Together
4. Two Worlds
5. Redux
6. Open Sky
7. Salvo
8. Bloodplay
9. Forever In My Head
10. Lungs
11. Admissions
