Trixie Whitley has just completed a highly successful tour to present and
celebrate her new EP 'The Dragon of Everything'. It's the first proper new album
for five years, and the collaboration with
Bdrmm
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“I think this is the best thing we've ever done,” says bdrmm’s Ryan Smith. “It's a proper step up.” It’s immediately clear that the Hull band – also made up of Joe Vickers, Jordan Smith and Conor Murray – have broken new ground on their latest album, which is, as Ryan correctly points out, the band’s most fully realised, complete, and greatest work to date. “The last album was essentially like a bridge between the two albums,” explains Joe, of 2023’s I Don’t Know.
“With that one we knew what we were trying to do but with this one we've fully cracked it.” It’s unquestionably a bold leap forward for the group, who have embraced a fuller spectrum of sounds, tones and atmospheres. “I felt very constrained writing a certain type of music to fit the genre [we were known for] but something lifted and I felt freer to create what I want,” says Ryan. “And what I seem to be doing at the moment is a lot of electronic music – taking influence from different spans of electronica, from dance music to ambient and experimental stuff.”
bdrmm’s trademark sound hasn’t completely disappeared by any means, you’ll still find beautifully layered guitars interlocking seamlessly with purring bass and crashing drums to create engulfing waves, but they are now integrated into a broader, more expansive and varied sonic palette. Just take ‘Infinity Peaking’ for example, a stirring piece of music that gracefully runs the gamut from post-rock meets shoegaze into a beautifully serene yet hypnotic synth-washed groove. “You can really see the holistic process of using guitars and synths together to create this new sound,” Jordan says of this song.
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Fondé à Hull en 2016, bdrmm sort en février 2025 « Microtonic », un troisième album plus abouti que jamais. Fraîchement signé sur le label Rock Action de Mogwai, pour lequel ils avaient déjà sorti en 2023 « I Don’t Know », leur précédent projet. Le groupe composé de Ryan Smith, Joe Vickers, Jordan Smith et Conor Murray, explore avec ce nouvel album des sonorités plus électroniques, arborant une palette de tonalités et d’ambiances plus large.
Sans perdre l’essence même de leur musique, bdrmm puise dans diverses influences sonores, pour aboutir à un résultat audacieux, perceptible dans « John on the Ceiling » premier extrait de cet album à venir, que les Britanniques défendront sur scène pour un concert rempli d’onirisme et de fougue.
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bdrmm ontstond in 2016 in Hull, en brengt in 2025 hun nieuwe album ‘Microtonic’ uit. Die derde plaat, hun eerste voor het Rock Action label van Mogwai, verkent meer elektronische geluiden, met een breder palet aan tonen en stemmingen.
Zonder de essentie van hun muziek te verliezen, put bdrmm uit een verscheidenheid aan sonische invloeden om tot een gedurfd resultaat te komen, zoals te horen is in ‘John on the Ceiling’, de eerste single van het aankomende album, dat de Britse band live ten gehore zal brengen in een concert vol dromerige energie.
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