[Cover photo credit to Drahla & George Brown]
Leeds-based Art-Rock group Drahla has shared “Grief In Phantasia,” the newest single from angeltape,their second full-length album due out April 5th, 2024 via Captured Tracks. “Grief In Phantasia” is the closer of angeltape.
According to the band:
This song was informed by others on the record and those we’d written in the past. It felt like the closing track when we wrote it, as though it summarised the chaos and the calm of the album.
angeltape is their first full-length release since their 2019 debut, Useless Coordinates. Recorded with Matthew Benn and Jamie Lockhart in 2023, angeltape is a “document of the events that unfolded over the five-year gap between records”.
Over the last few years, they suffered devastating losses and expanded their sound with guitarist Ewan Barr joining vocalist and guitarist Luciel Brown, bassist Rob Riggs and drummer Mike Ainsley. This led to a “darker and tonally more complex” sound.
There was a readjustment period for the band as they came together to write angeltape in this new iteration.
Brown shares:
There was an uncertainty and anxiety in not knowing how to rekindle what we had, and what we did have just didn’t exist in the same format. I feel this is apparent in the music; the constant changes, opposing ideas and structures, the overall energy and drive of the songs. I think there’s also the sense of reconnection, encouragement and freedom, too. There’s excitement borne from us finding something together again.
Drahla will also head out on tour across the EU and UK this May / June, their first since their European dates in 2023. They have toured across the world and shared stages with the likes of Parquet Courts, Ought, Buzzcocks, and several others.
Drahla – Confirmed Tour Dates
03/30 – Leeds, UK – Jumbo Records (in-store performance)
05/02 – Wakefield, UK – The Establishment
05/03 – Brighton, UK – The Hope & Ruin
05/04 – Brussels, BE – Les Nuits Botanique
05/07 – Cologne, DE- Bumann & Sohn
05/08 – Mainz, DE – Schon Schön
05/09 – Hamburg, DE – Hafenklang
05/10- Leipzig, DE – Ilses Erika
05/11 – Berlin, DE – Urban Spree
05/13 – Dresden, DE – Blechschloss
05/14 – Krakow, PL – Green ZOO Festival
05/15 – Prague, CZ – Underdogs
05/16 – Vienna, AT – Arena
05/17 – Munich, DE – Kafe Kult
05/18 – Bologna, IT – DEV
05/19 – Montecosaro, IT – Teatro delle Logge
05/21 – Clermont Ferrand, FR – Cooperative de Mai
05/22 – Toulouse, FR – Metronum Music Box
05/23 – Barcelona, ES – Sala Taro
05/24 – Madrid, ES – Sala Specka
05/25 – Porto, PT – Plano B
05/26 – Lisbon, PT – ZDB
05/27 – Vigo, ES – Radar Estudios & Mondo Club
05/30 – San Sebastian, ES – Dabadaba
05/31 – Bordeaux, FR – IBoat
06/03 – Paris, FR – Point Ephemere
06/04 – Lille, FR – L’AERONEF
06/06 – London, UK – Shacklewell Arms
06/07 – Bristol, UK – Dareshack
06/08 – Margate, UK – Where Else?
06/09 – Liverpool, UK – Quarry
06/10 – Manchester, UK – YES
06/12 – Glasgow, UK – The Old Hairdresser’s
06/13 – Coventry, UK – The Tin Music and Arts
06/14 – Hebden Bridge, UK – Hebden Bridge
06/15 – Leeds, UK – Belgrave Music Hall
