Noisy math-rock merchants Irk are releasing a new album, Recipes from The Bible, December 7th v. The band has also shared a cool 8-bit video for their track ‘Spectre At the Fiesta’ created by PSTL CSTL, which you can watch right now.
Vocalist Jack Gordon comments:
“Lyrically, recipes from the Bible is about the awful world we live in. It is about the sexy and exciting new ways in which intersectionally marginalised people are tricked into apathy by muscular haircuts with a phobia of context. It’s all at once angry, absurd, frustrated, disordered, violent, idealistic and unreasonable. Just like the Bible.”
The high-octane video for ‘Spectre At the Fiesta’ created by PSTL CSTL is the first taster from the new record with Jack adding, “we wanted something that would fit visually. The 8-bit video game style is already quite evocative, and the arcade space-shooter style amplifies that heightened adrenaline feeling.”
Featuring braying sax courtesy of The Physics House Band’s Miles Spilsbury, and shrieking guest vocals from Beige Palace’s Kelly Bishop, Recipes from the Bible sees Irk contort their sound into new and terrifying shapes. They have shared the stage alongside the likes of Pissed Jeans, Liturgy, Dope Body, and Blacklisters, as well as a thundering set at Arctangent Festival 2017 (with Converge, Boris, TTNG) and Wrong Festival 2018 (with Alpha Male Tea Party and Future of the Left).
Recipes from the Bible was recorded and mixed by Irk’s drummer Matt at Glide Studio, with final touches added by mastering engineer Nick Zampiello (Daughters, Converge) at New Alliance East in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Pre-orders will launch next month.
Irk will launch their album with a show in Leeds on 7th December at Chunk. More dates to be announced soon.
Irk is:
Jack Gordon – Vocals
Ed Snell – Bass
Matt Deamer – Drums