Today we have the pleasure to announce the full album streaming of Krakow's new album: minus, out August 31, 2018 via Karisma Records. You can stream the entire new album here. Not only that, but the band also announced an extensive European tour. Look for the full schedule below.
Krakow on their new album: "Following the laborious process of distilling two albums worth of material into one focused gem, we give you minus. The pinnacle achievement of Krakow’s thirteen-year existence. After a year of recording, shaping, re-recording and refining, minus has been reduced to the bare essence of who Krakow are as individuals, as a group and as story tellers. It is an album that defies any attempts at genre definition and covers the heavy, the subtle, the melodic, the atonal, the groovy, the sluggish, the dense, the airy, the naked, and always, always, that wall of sound where no light can escape.
With themes spanning from outer space to the hidden worlds deep below, travelling in time from the distant future to the near past like an inverted space odyssey, we are taken on a journey where we all become stories, in ways as much a reflection of the ones we tell, as a revelation of the ones we won't.
minus was once again recorded in the renowned Duper and Solslottet studios in the Bergen Kjøtt creative complex, in collaboration, once more, with Iver Sandøy. Krakow even brought in some help this time, to tell these stories, the album ending with a choir consisting of a select group of Bergen based musical veterans, whilst the opening track introduces the most rock n’ roll guitar solo, courtesy of one Phil Campbell ofMotörhead fame.
So, this is minus. An album that defies any attempt at genre definition. There are guests, who bring glitz and rock n' roll, as well as a grounding force to the core of the mountain. There is beauty, and there is rotten decay, like a lush forested island in the centre of a lake of septic water. There are monsters and there are saints, and none of them reveal themselves. But if we allow ourselves to search, we will find the cracks in the fabric and find a way to get close. It's a collection of contradictions, is what we're saying.
It's a Krakow album."
Tourdates
- 29.09.2018 København/Danmark - Pumpehuset
- 30.09.2018 Poznan/Polen - U Bazyla
- 01.10.2018 Warsaw/Polen - Proxima
- 02.10.2018 Leipzig/Tyskland - UT Connewitz
- 03.10.2018 Esch-sur-alzette/Luxembourg - Kulturfabrik
- 04.10.2018 Breda/Nederland - Mezz
- 06.10.2018 Norwich/England, UK - Waterfront
- 07.10.2018 Sheffield/England, UK - Plug
- 08.10.2018 Manchester/England, UK - Academy
- 2 09.10.2018 Dublin/Irland - Tivoli
- 10.10.2018 Belfast/Northern Ireland, UK - Limelight
- 12.10.2018 Birmingham/England, UK - Asylum
- 13.10.2018 Antwerp/Belgia - Desertfest
- 14.10.2018 Bristol/England, UK - SWX
- 15.10.2018 London/England, UK - The Dome
- 16.10.2018 Paris/Frankrike - La Machine du moulin rouge
- 20.10.2018 Bergen/Norway - Hulen (Only Krakow)