Troy the Band Set Feb. 2 Release for Debut Album Cataclysm
No public audio yet to share around still more than three months ahead of the Feb. 2 release, but heads up on Troy the Band‘s psych-stoner-doom roll on Cataclysm. The London four-piece made their presence known with 2022’s The Blissful Unknown EP (review here), and answer the promise of that short release with six new tracks of dense aural foam, a sound that’s as must post-now as back-when, a psychedelia that’s able to be loaded with weighted grit or float with a Dead Meadowy lightness, but wherever they go, they’re headed farther out. I’m just listening for the first time, but for the first external band signed by Bonebag Records, the Swedish imprint run by members of Cavern Deep, they seem to have hit on a gem.
Lumbering, drifting, shoving in “IHOD” which stands for who knows what and expansive in its approach throughout, Cataclysm will no doubt have preorders and all that as we get closer to its arrival. I’m not sure if I can personally consider a record ‘most anticipated’ when I’ve heard it, but I’ve started my albums-to-look-forward-to-in-2024 list, and Troy the Band‘s first LP is on it either way. So again, heads up.
The PR wire brought word:
Troy The Band – “Cataclysm” out February 2nd
Cataclysm, the debut full-length album from London-based Doom-gaze four-piece Troy The Band, will be released on Sweden’s Bonebag Records on February 2nd 2024. Since the release of their debut EP, The Blissful Unknown, Troy The Band have become mainstays in the London heavy music scene, with a list of accolades in 2023 that includes appearances at Desertfest London, Masters of the Riff, and Stoomfest, as well as a craft beer collaboration with East London’s Old Street Brewery.
With Cataclysm the band have taken the most unique elements of their debut EP and forged them into an album that blends elements of Stoner-Doom, Post Rock, Shoegaze and Heavy Psych. Cataclysm is dark, heavy, and identifiably their own.
For this album the band went back to work with Wayne Adams at Bear Bites Horse studio in East London. From the band’s point of view, this was a no-brainer: “We knew we wanted to work with Wayne again on this album. He’s great to work with and he had an important hand in shaping the sound of our EP. We knew he would get what we were trying to do with this album, and we really couldn’t be happier with how it has turned out.”
Each track is built from a sturdy foundation of Sean Durbin’s bass riffs which are then overlaid with Sean Burn’s distinctive guitar playing and Craig Newman’s unique and ethereal vocal style, adding layers of harmonic complexity and tension that is a defining feature of their sound.
The album title is derived from the name the band gave the initial demo of the title track, driven by its musically jarring feel rather than its lyrical content. It was then self-consciously adopted as the album title to reflect their aim of causing a musical upheaval in the heavy music scene. We believe it will.
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