JAKOB – Sines of Australia 2014
New Zealand’s Jakob announce Australian tour in support of new album Sines;
release new single and video Blind Them With Science
Cult post-rock outfit Jakob are awakening from a long slumber to break an eight-year silence with an Australian tour this November, bringing their formidably beautiful and long-awaited new record Sines.
Having toured Europe, the UK, Australasia and the US on the back of their 2006 record Solace, Jakob were twice personally invited to tour with American prog-rock heroes Tool throughout Australia and New Zealand, and toured along-side Damo Suzuki, frontman for seminal German psychedelic band Can. Injuries that prompted the eight-year hiatus are now a distant memory – New Zealand’s most formidable post-rock three-piece is back in full swing and ready to bring their unmistakable sonic texturing to the stage with a New Zealand and Australia tour in what will be an explorative aural adventure.
The album’s opening track and premiere single Blind Them With Science deftly explores delicate sonic textures as it erupts into a progressively clamorous roar. Jeff Boyle’s guitar work descends delicately into wide outbursts of noise and a swaggering riff, the bass of Maurice Beckett pulses with electric energy, and the powerful rippling of Jason Johnston’s drumming cascades between thunderous tom-work and eerily precise silences.
It’s a powerful introduction to a sonic journey that explores both menace and beauty through deft instrumentation and immaculate production. To hear Jakob on record is one thing; to witness them live is to enter a whole new realm of experience, as anyone who has done so will attest to. The formidably beautiful and long-awaited album Sines will be brought to the stage… after an eight-year wait, Jakob are back on stage for a series of colossal shows you don’t want to miss.
TONEDEAF & Valve/Consume present
JAKOB Sines of Australia Tour 2014
WED 26 NOV – Hobart REPUBLIC BAR
Tickets from moshtix http://republicbar.com/
THUR 27 NOV – Melbourne DING DONG
Tickets from dingdong.oztix.com.au/ and Box office Mon – Fri, 9am – 5.30pm ph (03) 9514 4599 and Oztix outlets.
FRI 28 NOV – Sydney HERMANNS
Tickets from hermannsbar.com
SAT 29 NOV – Wollongong RAD
Tickets from www.radbarcafe.com and www.yoursandowls.com.au
SUN 30 NOV – Brisbane CROWBAR
Tickets from http://crowbar.oztix.com.au, http://consume.oztix.com.au/ and Oztix outlets.
New album SINES out through Valve/MGM Australia OCT 17.
The album will be available from iTunes with an instant grat track on SEPT 18.
Blind them with Science will be available at radio this coming week.