Following on from the announcement of their third full length album entitled Optimist, Dutch "post-everything" sextet, GOLD, have finalised a run of tour dates in support of the album. The LP will be released on February 24, 2017 via Ván Records, and the first track, No Shadow, is streaming now.
Listen to No Shadow here:
https://soundcloud.com/v-n-records/gold-no-shadow
Of the track, vocalist, Milena Eva commented: 'This song is about struggling with how depression can isolate you, while you also want to feel connected and loved as no other. It's very easy to drown in that feeling of loneliness and not being understood, but eventually everybody wants to be a part of something, anything really. In that spirit, this is one of the more straight forward songs on Optimist, with a pummeling beat, razor sharp guitars and an infectious chorus. This one is hard to ignore, truly no shadow."
In March, GOLD will perform all over Europe in support of Optimist - full dates are below. GOLD will also perform in Groningen this Thursday during Eurosonic. They'll take the stage at 21:00 at De Kar'
After the artistic success of 2015's No Image - which united journalists, musicians, music lovers and even a pro-wrestler in its appraisal - GOLD returns with its successor. Together with producer Randall Dunn (a.o. Sunn O))), Earth, Ash Borer, Marissa Nadler), GOLD have put their angular drive, their blackened guitar textures, and the composed yet vulnerable vocal delivery of Milena Eva in an even broader context. GOLD have created an almost unlimited space for their unique unity of beauty and cruelty to crush and confuse even more.
Within her lyrics Milena Eva lays bare her insecurities, internal struggles and self-doubt, as a means to reach out and connect. To ultimately inspire acceptance and love of the self, of the known and of the alien. To resist the apathy as expressed in the album's first lyric - 'Binge-watching the world collapse' - and to include.
With their nonconformist outsider approach, which the New York Times strikingly defined as "serenely intense! near-metal", GOLD has managed to find a previously uninhabited spot that is truly their own. To achieve this in the heart of such a densely populated musical landscape, rather than at its outskirts, is the exciting result of intense years of performing and self-reflection.
Optimist is an adventurous confirmation of GOLD's reputation as an enthralling band, on stage and on record.
OPTIMIST - track list
1. You Too Must Die
2. Summer Thunder
3. White Noise
4. Teenage Lust
5. No Shadow
6. I Do My Own Stunts
7. Be Good
8. Come With Me
9. Tear
GOLD have also announced a series of tour dates in support of the album release, with more shows to be confirmed throughout 2017.
16.03 - NL - Rotterdam @ V11
17.03 - CH - Winterthur @ Gaswerk
18.03 - CH - Olten @ Le Coq d'Or
19.03 - AT - Linz @ Willy*Fred
20.03 - AT - Wien @ Venster 99
21.03 - DE - Leipzig @ 4rooms
22.03 - DE - Göttingen @ Freihafen
23.03 - DE - Rostock @ JAZ
24.03 - DK - København @ Stengade
25.03 - NO - Oslo @ Blitz
27.03 - DE - Kiel @ Alte Meierei
28.03 - DE - Hamburg @ Hafenklang
29.03 - DE - Erlangen @ JUKUZ
30.03 - FR - Lille @ El Diablo
31.03 - DE - Köln @ Limes
01.04 - BE - Antwerpen @ Antwerp Music City
Optimist will be available on multiple formats via Ván Records, preorder details will follow.
GOLD are:
Igor Wouters
Jaka Bolič
Kamiel Top
Milena Eva
Thomas Sciarone
Tim Meijer
Find GOLD online:
https://twitter.com/thebandGOLD
https://www.facebook.com/thebandGOLD/?fref=ts
https://www.thebandgold.com/
