Gengahr announce new album Red Sun Titans out on 9 June and share new single 'In The Moment'
Gengahr - photo credit David J. East
Today, acclaimed London four-piece Gengahr return with the news of their highly-anticipated fourth album Red Sun Titans, plus a brand-new single 'In The Moment', along with news of a UK headline tour through the Autumn.
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Pre-order the new album Red Sun Titans here.
Released via Liberator Music (part of The Mushroom Group, which is home to artists including DMA’S, Vance Joy, Childish Gambino, Wolf Alice and more), new album Red Sun Titans (out 9th June) is the sound of a band reborn – harnessing the energy and inspiration of their past but with a bold and fiercely independent vision for the future. It’s an album “caught in between two worlds,” as frontman Felix Bushe puts it – a colourful celebration where you’ve come from, and dreaming of where you could go from here.
Red Sun Titans will mark the band’s first full length release since Sanctuary [2020] and sets Gengahr on an exciting new trajectory. Having passed through the happy-to-be-here phase of debut album A Dream Outside [2015] and traversed the baggage of adversity and tragedy that underpinned Where Wildness Grows [2018] and Sanctuary, Red Sun Titans sees the band wrestle free from those energies to set sail anew.
Entering the studio with Matt Glasbey (alt-J, Coldplay) producing and mixing - with executive production by Charlie Andrew (Wolf Alice, London Grammar, Bloc Party, all three alt-J albums) – the band saw a chance to revisit the origins of where their creativity came from. The album developed out of self-analysis and resultingly is one of two distinct sides: one a naive counterpart longing to exist in a simpler state, and another about checking your ego and coming to terms with great loss. Red Sun Titans sits at that crossroads where the past is still in view and to be learned from, but the future is there for the taking. It’s the ambitious, unrestrained and widescreen statement Gengahr have always threatened to make.
To mark the announcement, the band have also shared a new single titled 'In The Moment'. A sleek and groove-heavy taste of the band’s new material, the single toys with spacious indie-pop instrumentation that carries a subtle funk inflection propping up Bushe’s hook-heavy vocal lines.
Speaking on the single, Bushe says, “‘In The Moment’ reflects upon the necessity to break away from our daily routine and create meaningful memories. As much as sunny days and laughter with friends, 'In The Moment’ celebrates the late hours without inhibition, where dreams lead and tomorrow lingers."
The single is also accompanied video shot on location in Mallorca using just one iPhone and featuring two of Bushe’s childhood friends - Billy (director) and Casper (stylist and location scout). The video was entirely improvised by the trio and features a backdrop salvaged from a Gucci campaign that Casper worked on, with Bushe wearing a suit that was tailor made for Brad Pitt in the feature film ‘The Councillor’.
Hear 'In The Moment on streaming services here and watch the video for below.
In addition to the new album and single news, Gengahr have also announced a full run of new UK headline tour dates to take place across September and October, including a date at London’s Electric Ballroom.
The dates will follow a series of must-see performances at festivals across the country this summer, and finds them in high demand having played four sold out back-to-back nights in London last month – with the first two dates selling out in just 5 minutes.
Gengahr full UK touring and festival appearances 2023
13 May – The Great Escape, Brighton, UK
27 May – Live At Leeds: In The Park, Leeds, UK
20 - 23 July – Secret Garden Party, Huntingdon, UK
21 – 30 July – Ventnor Fringe, Isle Of White, UK
21 - 23 July - Truck Festival, Oxford, UK
27 - 30 July - Kendall Calling
28 - 30 July - YNOT? Festival
24- 27 Aug - Lost Village, Lincolnshire, UK
25 Sept - Academy 2, Leicester, UK
26 Sept - Hare & Hounds, Birmingham, UK
27 Sept – Wardrobe, Leeds, UK
29 Sept - Band On The Wall, Manchester, UK
30 Sept - Garage G2, Glasgow, UK
01 Oct – Cluny, Newcastle, UK
03 Oct – Trinity, Bristol, UK
04 Oct - Concorde 2, Brighton, UK
06 Oct - Electric Ballroom, London, UK
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Tracklisting:
1. Alkali
2. Red Sun Titans
3. From Beruit (Interlude)
4. A Ladder
5. In The Moment
6. Heels To The Moon
7. Floating In The Undercurrent (Interlude)
8. White Lightning
9. Suburbia
10. In My Way
11. The Interview
12. Haunted Spaces (Interlude)
13. Napoleon
14. Collapse
For press: Download the latest Gengahr biographical information here.
Further praise for Gengahr
The Gengahr gift for penning smart, sophisticated, earworm singles has long been common knowledge. Their 2020 single ‘Heavenly Maybe’ was playlisted on BBC Radio 1, 6 Music, Radio X – winning further accolades as both BBC Radio 1’s Hottest Record in The World and Greg James’ Tune of The Week – with the album Sanctuary featuring as Album Of The Day on 6 Music, Jack Saunders' Album For The Weekend on BBC Radio 1 and Album Of The Week on Amazing Radio. This was also recently exemplified with their playful pop single “A Ladder”, which was released last month to critical acclaim earning multiple plays across BBC Radio 1 and 6 Music and widespread plaudits at press.
"Blissed out melodies to that plaintive melancholic ache" - Clash
"Colourful, confident and full of a swagger" - DIY
"Boldly expansive and electrifyingly curious" - Dork
"Beautifully moving songs" - The Line of Best Fit
"Endless earworm choruses across myriad styles" - Mojo
"Warped, wobbly notes and tones, fidgety guitars and a trademark falsetto" - NME
"Gengahr have never been short of tunes" - Uncut
