On 31 May 2019 we played a show at The Victoria in London with our good friends Kavus Torabi and Lost Crowns.
Our set was recorded by The Drum Tamer, and now we present it to you – featuring songs from Make Me Young, etc, Electricity, Sleep Furiously, and We Bake Our Bread Beneath Her Holy Fire – (including the really weird one about Toast). Enjoy!
Download the full album here:
Here’s a new video for ‘Tempe Terra’ from our new album, Make Me Young, etc.
Enjoy the Martian Beards.
‘Make Me Young, etc’ – the new album by Thumpermonkey.
Available now.
Pre-order ‘Make Me Young, etc.’ now.
It turns out that writing an album where you immerse yourself in the idea that the world might end has unpredictable effects on the brain. Some of these effects were unexpectedly positive. A numinous sense of gratitude for the present moment. Remembering that childlike sense of joy during periods of inspiration and creativity. Some of it was difficult. Throwing away as much material as we wrote, and creating a lot of orphaned music. Being put out of action for months due to ongoing problems with my hearing. Taking things a bit too seriously, sometimes. Still, it’s done now. There’s a happy ending.
Having had the opportunity to work with musicians as skilled as Rael, Ben, and Sam over the last 6 years makes me feel very lucky. What am I trying to say?
Near the end of ‘Make Me Young, Etc.’, there’s a line that gets repeated over and over.
“Take this useless sadness and throw it away.”
Michael 03-09-2018
Pre-order “Make Me Young, Etc.” now.
We’re releasing our new album, ‘Make Me Young, etc.’ this Autumn.
Tickets are now on sale for our album release show
Thursday 11th October @ The Victoria, London.
Stay tuned for more information. Alternatively, feel free to
speculate and make stuff up in the FB comments…
Hey – our new EP ‘Electricity‘ is available now.
Here’s a new video for track #1 – ‘Garmonbozia‘, streaming on the Echoes and Dust website.
Electricity comes as a signed, individually numbered digipack
limited to 500 copies.
Our new EP, ‘Electricity’ can now be pre-ordered direct from Bandcamp.
Here’s a little bit of what it sounds like:
We have a couple of shows coming up:
We’ve been concentrating on a strategy for releasing new music in a way that maximises the chances of lots of new people hearing it.
Sorry this has taken us a long time.
We’re working with Sel Balamir from Amplifier and his new label, Rockosmos.
We release an EP on Rockosmos in September called ‘Electricity’. It features three new songs, and a fantastic new recording of an older one.
www.rockosmos.com/thumpermonkey
We play a stupendous release show at the Black Heart, Camden with CHAOS THEORY on 6th October.
We’ll release an album soon after that.
