GLOK - Dissident - world exclusive splatter Vinyl LP
RELEASED FEBRUARY 26, 2027.
Limited to only 500 numbered copies
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- Individually numbered Impressed OBI STRIP
- for fans of Ride, Ulrich Schnauss, Daniel Avery, Maps, Andrew Weatherall, and The Orb
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RIDE’s Andy Bell heads further into the electronic underground with GLOK, folding acid house, krautrock, ambient drift and shoegaze atmosphere into something hypnotic and distinctly his own. Motorik rhythms, glowing synths and slow-burn psychedelia make this ideal territory for fans of leftfield electronics, late-night headphones and records that get better the deeper you go.
Andy Bell is a founding member, guitarist and songwriter of shoegaze pioneers RIDE, whose landmark records Nowhere and Going Blank Again helped define the sound of early-’90s British guitar music. He later spent a decade playing bass with Oasis, followed by Beady Eye, before returning to RIDE and developing his own solo work. Under the name GLOK, Bell explores the more electronic side of his musical world, drawing on krautrock, acid house, ambient and psychedelia.
The name GLOK is a misspelling of the German word for Bell. The German connection fits well as there is a strong Krautrock influence in the music, especially on the title track, ‘Dissident’, an epic clocking in just shy of the 20-minute mark, which blends synthwave, minimalism, trance, Detroit techno and John Carpenter soundtracks, with Andy even dropping in some killer John Squire-esque guitar licks. It’s a real journey, but rather than driving down Kraftwerk’s Autobahn, this is one for a spaced-out night time joyride down the M40 that connects Andy’s home city of Oxford to the capital, a journey evoked in the grid of time-lapsed car light tracers of the cover art (by Graeme Swinton).
The previously unreleased ‘Kolokol’ is named after the Russian for Bell and was the original artist name for the project, until Andy discovered it was also the word for a chemical poison used in assassinations. However, there is nothing dark about this blissed-out slice of Balearic gorgeousness, the perfect soundtrack for the sunset at Café Del Mar. ‘Pulsing’ is the heart of the album, a widescreen ambient techno wonder that Weatherall and Fearless would be proud to put their name to, with dissonant atmospherics and an acid throb.
The next three tracks demonstrate Andy’s versatility, nodding more to his day job as his sublime guitar playing comes to the fore. ‘Weaver’ is like a Ghost Box remix of the Beatles’ Strawberry Fields Forever; the propulsive ‘Projected Sounds’ has echoes of Neu! and Can in its buzzing guitar and hammered piano melody, while the soaring acoustic bliss of ‘Cloud Cover’ could be a RIDE track shorn of the band’s Byrdsian vocal harmonies. Closer ‘Exit Through the Skylight’, another previously unreleased track, is Skee Mask on the happy pills.
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RELEASE DATE OF VINYL: 26 february, 2027.
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SIDE A
A1. Dissident
A2. Kolokol
SIDE B
B1. Pulsing
B2. Weaver (Edit)
B3. Projected Sounds
B4. Cloud Cover
B5. Exit Through the Skylight
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