Intricate and innovative MAGNOLIA release 'Five Hundred'

Sonic textures are tattered, torn, intricately woven, broken and rebuilt by Norwich’s MAGNOLIA as the frenetic art-punks release…

Five Hundred

MAGNOLIA – Five Hundred
OUT NOW 
Shake! Shake! Records
www.shakeshakerecords.co.uk
 
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Shattering prodigious instrumental gifts, gathering the shards and constructing a frenzied form of ‘experimental post-rock from God's womb’, magnetic multi-instrumentalists, MAGNOLIA release only their third piece of new music in the form of new single, Five Hundred – OUT NOW. Sketching out mellow plains of rest alongside episodes of rattling abandon, the intricate and innovative Norwich seven-piece affect an experience of equal disquiet and peculiar pleasure over another no-punches-pulled early career statement.
 
MAGNOLIA’s springtime debut, Television, followed by Feed Me, landed as a brooding, otherworldly incendiary, shaking out support from BBC 6 Music, Radio X and Soho Radio alongside it’s ultra-limited 12” vinyl release. Concocting temperamental storms of cutting riffs, harmonic melody and corrosive blasts of sax-borne unruliness, winking at influences including Black Midi, Maruja and Opus Kink, the release of Five Hundred now boxes up a song tailor-made for the band’s searing live outings to become a fractious, seam-bursting consumable for the streaming age.

Adam Turner, singer and bassist, says: “Five Hundred was written early in our time together as a band, with minor changes since. The lyrics overall don’t have any major personal meaning to me, it’s a sort of story or journey about a rather emotionally dark subject, yet one I have only observed rather than experienced. That being said, there are a few lines which hold greater relevance than others and can be put to any situation and taken into different interpretations making it more widely resonant.”

After forming in 2022, the band – made up of Turner, George Rodgers (guitars/vocals)
Daisy Green (saxophone), Tom Reynolds (percussion/programming), Matthew Creegan (guitar), Harrison Peek (drums), Matthew Cassie (trombone) – spared no time in quickly positioning themselves as being on a war-footing with artistic compromise. Driven by a shared vision of music as a force for inclusion and unity, MAGNOLIA have worn a deeply trodden path between Norwich and London’s underground venues over the last 12 months.
 
Whilst debuting at Brixton’s Windmill in summer and moving through hot spots like Shacklewell Arms and Hackney’s Two Palms, the band’s tainted splendour continues to radiate from their home city and numerous, celebratory, capacity eye-to-eye outings in their home city. Marking the release of Five Hundred, the return to the stage of Norwich’s Voodoo Daddy’s tomorrow (Fri 29 November 2024) then London's Dream Bags Jaguar Shoes the following evening (Sat 30 November 2024).
 
With more new music and live dates to come, to be first to know about what comes next from MAGNOLIA connect with the band online at:
 
https://magnolia11.bandcamp.com
https://twitter.com/MAGNOLIABAND_UK
https://www.instagram.com/magnoliaband_uk
https://www.facebook.com/groups/633261081825431/?locale=en_GB