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Marius Tilly Premieres Video for “Revel Outer Space”

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Tomorrow night, July 27, German singer-songer-rocker Marius Tilly takes the stage at Zirkonium in Dortmund for an acoustic set. Taken in context with the work the three-piece of Tilly, bassist Benjamin Oppermann and drummer Max Wastl do on last year’s Nebula Rising album (released through MIG Music), that’s a pretty significant showcase of range, but that would seem to be a running theme in Tilly‘s work. Starting out more in a blues songwriter context, the Bochum native seems to have grown into more of a classically rock sphere, and throughout Nebula Rising, he and his rhythm section deliver varied and crisp material underscored by a tightness of craft and directional clarity. In other words, they know what they want to do and they do it.

No minor feat, even three records in. “Revel Outer Space,” for which you can see the video premiering below, is one of the harder rocking cuts on Nebula Rising, and where songs like “Animal Serenade” and “Colder Below” dig into even poppier alt-rocking terrain and “Danger” and “Solar Woman” emphasize upbeat, danceable vibes, “Revel Outer Space” finds something of a middle ground between those sides, with a latter-day Queens of the Stone Age unabashed play for catchiness and a hook that hits that mark nicely. Tilly, Oppermann and Wastl captured the bulk of the footage while on tour last year, though an early 2015 trip to Memphis, Tennessee — which seems appropriate enough environs for what they’re doing stylistically — features as well.

If you’re so inclined, the entirety of Nebula Rising is streaming on Tilly‘s Bandcamp page (linked below), as well as 2015’s preceding LP, Come Together, which was issued under the moniker of the Marius Tilly Band. In addition to the unplugged show tomorrow, Marius Tilly — presumably the full band, though Wastl seems to be out of the lineup and I’m not sure who, if anyone, has replaced him — will also appear next month at Moosenmättle Open Air in Wolfach and Snakepit Festival in Detmold, both in Germany.

Enjoy:

Marius Tilly, “Revel Outer Space” official video

Marius Tilly reinvented himself with his new album: ”Nebula Rising“ (M.i.G. Music/Indigo) presents the German singer and guitarist, who has been at home in the postmodern blues rock genre before, as a mature songwriter and performer in the area of conflict of alternative and rock. “I didn’t want the songs to be a base for staging me as a instrumentalist,“ explains the man from the Ruhr area, ”Instead the focus is on the songwriting.” his artistic reorientation ended with the consequence of deleting the annex ”Band“ out of the groups‘ name and releasing the “with a rhythm duo for 90 per cent live recorded” album under “Marius Tilly.”

His third CD since 2009 has been produced by the sound engineer Helge Preuß in the Horus-Sound- Studio in Hannover. The studio belonged to Frank Bornemann for a long time. The founder of the art rock band ELOY and discoverer and part-time producer of the cross over quartet GUANO APES (Hit: ”Lords Of he Boards“) not only is the publisher, but also Tilly’s mentor. His makeover appears in the form of twelve songs, which are mastered by Brian Lucey (the Arctic Monkeys, Ray LaMontague).

“This time the framing concept is the universe,” notes Tilly. the fan of Douglas Adams’ science fiction satire classic ”the Hitchhiker’s Guide through the Galaxy“ concretizes: ”the lyrics are a glance on our world from the outer space.” As to read in the eight-page booklet of the digipak.

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