Voka Gentle - WRITHING! [2LP]

Leafy Outlook

£24.46

Format: 2 x LP, Sol Yellow Colour Double LP
Catalogue No.: LEAFY2
Barcode: 5053760076377
Release Date: 19 Nov 2021
Genre: Experimental/Electronic

TRACKLISTING:
2LP
Side A
1. Kestrel
2. Necrofauna/The Garden Of Eden (feat. Wayne Coyne)
3. Horse Latitudes
Side B
1. A Selving
2. Respect My Eccentricity pt. 1
3. Respect My Eccentricity pt. 2
4. Miasma Field Modulator(Trafalgar Square 3.3.2020) ± F∝V + field recs (blackbird/house martin)(feat. Oliver Wilde) 
Side C
1. TV Bra™️
2. See Damage (зона)
3. Election Day
Side D
1. DREAD./TKOE (feat. BELLS)
2. [When We Go, We’re Taking You All With Us!]
3. Slow Joe
4. The Black Swell

Operating on a plane between avant-garde indie, bubbling electronica and cosmic psychedelia, London group Voka Gentle have an addictive, amorphous sound. A three limbed beast made up of twins Ellie and Imogen Mason, and William J. Stokes, each is a multi-instrumentalist, songwriter and producer with an imperious understanding of three dimensional sound.

The newest single ‘Necrofauna / The Garden of Eden’ - features Wayne Coyne from The Flaming Lips.
The hallucinatory mix of squelching synth bass and rhythmic samples, three-tiered harmonies playing off against William’s sprechgesang, and a cutting, full-bodied drum beat is reflected in the oneiric themes.

“This song is a dream sequence about the narrator entering the Garden of Eden, the emblem of an idealised pastoral relationship with the natural world, and realising they can’t stand it and want t o consume and bring destruction to it (I see a deer pass me by and I break its neck / Rip off its hind leg and take a bite through fur, sinew and bone).”

‘Necrofauna / The Garden of Eden’ - recorded with neo - metal battalion Pigsx7 guitarist and producer Sam Grant - is the first release in earnest since 2019’s acclaimed debut album ‘Start Clanging Cymbals’, released via Nude Records. Having come through the dues - paying gestation period that leads up to a debut record, there’s a sense of liberation around this new phase for Voka Gentle - a subtle confidence in their craft. It’s well earned too - with high praise from the likes of UNCUT, MOJO and The Line of Best Fit at press. Support comes too from BBC 6 Music - including presenting an edition of Stuart Maconie’s Freak Zone - and Radio 1. Tracks from that album also featured on FIFA 19 and The Sims 2020, aiding in recognition.

A live set at the prestigious Pitchfork Avant Garde festival, as well as a clutch of tastemaker festivals in the UK (Dot to Dot , Live At Leeds, The Great Escape, Kendall Calling, Bluedot, Neighbourhood), alongside the serendipit ous shows with The Flaming Lips and sell - out headline gigs, provide a strong live pedigree

LIVE:
24th July - WOMAD (subject to it happening)
October - regional instore tour tbc
20/11 Glasgow - SWG3 Poetry Club
22/11 Bristol - The Louisiana
23/11 Manchester - Night People
25/11 Brighton - The Hope and Ruin
26/11 London - Kings Place

SOCIALS:
https://www.instagram.com/voka_gentle/
https://twitter.com/vokagentle
https://www.facebook.com/vokagentle

OTHER ACTIVITY: https://www.leafyoutlook.com/ - https://www.vokagentle.com/