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Landshapes

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Lost practices, hidden worlds, secret topics - Landshapes shift around the dark, magical borders of alternative culture, soaking up poetry and peccadillos, high art and low desires.



On their second album Heyoon, released on Bella Union on May 4th, Landshapes explore everything from a 17th Century tale about migratory space geese; tragic Dutch artist Bas Jan Ader who died on a failed Atlantic crossing, the desire to inhabit another’s psyche and nights out at drag bars. With Landshapes, anything could happen.



Previously Lulu And The Lampshades, 2012 saw them accrue a wealth of guitar pedals, a fascination for mind-expanding noise and, following a mis-billing in Paris, a new name: Landshapes.

2013 debut Landshapes album Rambutan was a voyage of discovery as they hunted out this elusive new soundscape. Electronics clashed with traditional shanties, eastern atmospherics met spaghetti western overtones, nothing was out-of-bounds.



Described by one reviewer as “conjuring up images of twisted Tim Burton nighttime fairgrounds where all the rides are manned by Tom Waits”, it combined art, folk, psychedelia and math-rock in a beguiling morass of ominous strings, oddball found-sounds and insidious melody.



The band were still mapping Landshapes though. Over the next year of intense rehearsals and live outings - including CMJ, Green Man and End Of The Road, they honed the self-professed “unleashed and loud” sound into a focused tornado



The Boileroom

13 Stoke Fields

Guildford

Surrey

GU1 4LS