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StoneBirds Sign to Ripple Music for Collapse and Fail Release This Summer

Posted in Whathaveyou on January 29th, 2020 by JJ Koczan

By the time they get around to releasing their new album, Collapse and Fail, as their debut release through Ripple Music, it will be closer than not to three years since France’s StoneBirds put out 2017’s Time (track premiere here). It seems like maybe the new record is a ways off yet — the press release says “summer,” if that helps — since the info on the thing is sparse apart from the title and the basic signing announcement to let you know that it’s arriving through Ripple, as well as the fact that it’s 40 minutes long, which actually I do appreciate knowing. Only so many hours in the day, and it says something about a band, particularly one playing a progressive style as StoneBirds do that they’re willing to keep things manageable.

Time is streaming at the bottom of the post if you’d care to revisit, and as you’ll hear, they bring an interesting edge to the label they’ve newly joined. Their style is a standout at least from some of the more straight-ahead rock stuff that Ripple is known for, and it’s awesome to see them branching out. That’s how longevity happens.

I’ll hope to have more to come on Collapse and Fail as “summer” approaches. Here’s the signing announcement, admittedly with some delay in getting it posted:

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French post-doom royalty STONEBIRDS ink deal with Ripple Music for new album “Collapse and Fail”, to be released in the summer of 2020.

Ripple Music are happy to be welcoming France’s progressive doom trio STONEBIRDS to their roster. The Breton trio is set to blow minds once again, with their upcoming third album ‘Collapse and Fail’, due out in the summer.

With ‘Collapse and Fail’, STONEBIRDS will be releasing their darkest record to date. If previous albums resonated like distress calls for the planet, this third one is an excruciating work of hopelessness that embodies all the horror we’re collectively facing: this is too late. Throughout its gripping six songs, the band gives “doom metal” a more contemporary meaning, emotionally charged, linking a painful interiority with our collective gloomy destiny. This is too late, and all that is left is a burning violence .

The band enthuses: “We are very excited to be releasing our third album “Collapse and Fail” on Ripple Music. We were looking for a strong powerhouse owned by passionate people, and Todd and his team will be the best help we can get to promote that album. “Collapse and Fail” is the heavier and rawest piece of music we have ever written. As always, we intertwined solar soundscapes and darker moods to create this journey of forty minutes. Once again, we worked with the super dudes at Kerwax Studio for a great sound, and DZO for a mind-blowing visual. Hope you guys will lend an ear!”

https://www.facebook.com/Stonebirdsarestone/
https://www.instagram.com/stonebirdsofficial/
https://stonebirdsarestone.bandcamp.com/
https://www.facebook.com/theripplemusic/
https://ripplemusic.bandcamp.com/
https://www.ripple-music.com/

StoneBirds, Time (2017)

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