Ambulance

Description

Ambulance sees The Amazing continue their journey to a place where music is free of restrictions. Despite reflecting Chris Gunrups often bleak worldview, the music is expansive and beautiful, marked by playing thats as much free jazz as rock pure music without any showiness.

The songs unfold slowly, without a traditional verse / chorus structure, spinning gauzy webs of shimmering mystery with their own inimitable dynamic of sinuous, swirling guitars; rich, ambient basslines; crisp percussion and restrained, church-like, keyboard textures. The stately tempos suggest a room full of shadows desperately reaching out for intimacy but never quite making the connection. The songs brim over with tension and more implied release than actual relief.

Gunrup is known for his reluctance to talk about his process and prefers to let the music speak for itself and if 2015s Picture You was brighter, exploding outward to explore the limits of experience, Ambulance is much more intimate. The mix denser and darker, the instruments pressing closer, crowding each other, imploding inward to reconnoitre the uncharted distances that exist between us, even in lifes most intimate moments.

Sharing members with Swedens psych forefathers Dungen, the album delves into the hidden recesses of the heart, finding inner space to be just as expansive as the midnight sky. It was recorded in just a few days in one tiny room at Stockhoms Buller & Bäng studio.

The Amazings drummer, Moussa, is one of Swedens top jazz drummers and has also played with Rodriguez and Jose Gonzalez.

The video for lead track Ambulance features Ross Marquand (AMCs The Walking Dead).

Previously the band have performed on The Late Show with David Letterman and toured with Tame Impala. ? The Amazing specialize in a beauty that isnt airbrushed or slick or antiseptic, its elemental rock earthy, molten, aquatic, but using each of their qualities to soothe rather than destroy or intimidate. Pitchfork

LP format includes digital download code.