Night Tapes announce debut album, portals // polarities

Speaking on the new single, Night Tapes say; "pacifico was written after our friend returned from Mexico (San Jose del Pacifico) and told us stories about how beautiful it was. It's about our idea of Pacifico - like a state of mind you can reach, as we still haven't been there. This is our homage to 93 ‘til infinity by Souls of Mischief".

The band have also announced plans for a UK tour, including a headline show at London's Village Underground, alongside dates in Bristol, Leeds, Manchester, Amsterdam, Berlin, Paris, and more.

Making music together in a shared house in south east London, the songs of Iiris Vesik, Max Doohan and Sam “Richie” Richards had to be quiet to avoid disturbing neighbours. “It was about capturing the vibe of the house,” Vesik remembers, then realising that the songs “became time capsules of the different places we were.” For Richards, each song comes with a specific and clear memory of the surroundings in which it was created. “It feels like a flipbook of that time,” he says.

“The album is an exploration of energies and an exploration into my soul. I go into the spectrality of my being and into different polarities within myself. I would like to understand myself and to understand relationships I have with myself and others because I’m trying to change the small things in order to tackle the big ones. I’m just trying to be as honest as possible because lies are prisons. I’m from a country that used to be under authoritarian rule. I am really grateful to have been born in a free country and I value freedom above most things,” says Vesik.

Tracklist:

1. enter
2. television
3. swordsman
4. Lemon tree midnight
5. babygirl (like no1 else)
6. pacifico
7. tokyo sway
8. masterplan
9. helix
10. patience (waiting for the setting sun)
11. leave it all behind, Mike
12. storm
13. wayfarer