AVALANCHE PARTY RELEASE NEW ALBUM ‘DER TRAUM UBER ALLES’ RECORDED AT RANCHO DE LA LUNA

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Today, (7th February 2025) Yorkshire feral garage-punk band Avalanche Party release their new album ‘Der Traum Uber Alles’. Recorded with Dave Catching (Queens Of The Stone Age, Eagles Of Death Metal), at the hallowed Rancho De La Luna Studios in California’s Joshua Tree, the LP retains a wild and animalistic essence. If you were to sit it down on the psychoanalyst’s couch, its themes of bloodlust, subversion and incineration might suggest a heavy payload of pent-up aggression being detonated. Listen to ‘Der Traum Uber Alles’ here.

Avalanche Party have presented morsels from ‘Der Traum Uber Alles’ in recent months in the form of ‘Shake The Slack’, ‘John Coltrane’s Moscow Skyscraper’, ‘Nureyev Said It Best’ and ‘Collateral Damage’ which have seen support from BBC Radio 1, BBC 6 Music, Radio X, DIY, Clash & more. To mark the album’s release today, they share new single ‘Ecstasy’ an ode to euphoria, showcasing a new dimension to Avalanche Party’s sound. Listen to ‘Ecstasy’ here.

Vocalist Jordan Ray speaks on the track, “Ecstasy was the first song I wrote using Ostrich tuning, but we had to build a guitar to be able to play it right, separate inputs for separate amps and effects between the octaves. Without that the rhythm and melody was too muddy, the new guitar made it work. The lyrical narrative wrote itself. It’s a nice story. We started playing it live when we were on tour with …And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of The Dead and people loved it immediately, especially in Denmark. And Berlin. And Vienna. And Basel. Quite something. Those people really knew their ecstasies”.

Avalanche Party are fresh from a string of shows for Independent Music Week, and are gearing up for a UK headline run in March and Europe in April.

Album Instores
7 Feb – Jumbo Records, Leeds (UK)
13 Feb – Fighting Cocks, Kingston (UK)

Headline Tour
6 Mar – The Flying Duck, Glasgow (UK)
7 Mar – Zerox, Newcastle (UK)
8 Mar – The Hare & Hounds 2, Birmingham (UK)
9 Mar – Polar Bear Music Club, Hull (UK)
10 Mar – The Castle Hotel, Manchester (UK)
11 Mar – The Social, London (UK)
12 Mar – The Edge of The Wedge, Portsmouth (UK)
13 Mar – The Horn, St Albans (UK)
14 Mar – Sidney & Matilda, Sheffield (UK)
1 Apr – Hydrozagadka, Warsaw (PL)
2 Apr – Molotow Muzik Club, Hamburg (DE)
7 Apr – La Mécanique Ondulatoire, Paris (FR)
8 Apr – V11, Rotterdam (NL)

Formed in 2016, Avalanche Party – Jordan Bell (vocals/guitar), Joe Bell (bass/vocals), Jared Thorpe (guitar/sax/vocals), Glen Adkins (keys) and Kane Waterfield (drums) – have stated “nobody comes from where we come from”. Hailing from different corners of North Yorkshire, the band was put together by the brothers Bell, who were brought up on a farm on the sprawling moors, home-schooled by their parents and initiated into the counterculture by their father Pete, who in the late 1960s was resident bassist at Beckenham Arts Lab, playing alongside Bowie among other South East London radicals.

Blitzing together their distinctive styles (Waterfield’s hard-hitting, bouncing-bomb drumming; Thorpe’s expressive avant-rock pyrotechnics; Joe Bell’s athletic basslines; Adkins’ intoxicating synth), Avalanche Party create a noise that blends and twists their individual influences into shapes that defy any neat label. Intended as a deviation from the ‘loud, thrashy’ live performances that first got them noticed, the band’s 2019 debut LP ‘24 Carat Diamond Trephine’ spurts forth a spectrum of styles, leaping from frenetic garage-psych to sedate surrealistic Americana to staccato uplifting indie rock over the course of its thirty-nine minutes.

New album ‘Der Traum Über Alles’, in contrast, is a more considered, full-formed beast, its dark underbelly undoubtedly a result of it being conceived during and after the caged-animal isolation of the COVID-19 pandemic, on an industrial estate in Darlington and down in the basement studio they built in Middlesbrough once restrictions were eased. Decorated with Warholian tinfoil wallpaper, the studio served as a year-long nerve centre for the band while Thorpe and the brothers Bell pieced together their ideas, before a freak flood in September 2022 forced them to flee.

For all its urgency, the making of the LP required near-superhuman patience from the band. Recorded in November 2022 with Dave Catching (Queens of the Stone Age, Eagles of Death Metal) at Rancho de la Luna – his beautifully eccentric home studio on the edge of Joshua Tree National Park, California – Avalanche Party were set to be there two years before, but had to wait for the US border to reopen after repeated lockdowns Stateside. Swapping subterranean Teesside for this magical, hazardous desert landscape populated with rattlesnakes, scorpions and cholla cacti, the band recorded ‘Der Traum Über Alles’ in just ten days with Catching as their generous free-spirited pilot, his intimate knowledge of his vintage gear and Thanksgiving cooking sustaining the rapid-fire sessions. The idiosyncrasies of malfunctioning equipment (Jordan’s buzzing guitar, Jared’s deformed sax) were embraced as the band blazed through the songs, Catching’s laidback mastery of his own beaten-up equipment ensuring each track felt like a spontaneous eruption after so many months of suspended animation.

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