Leipzig based hardcore outfit G i f t unleash their brand-new album, RUPTURES, today via This Charming Man Records! To celebrate the release of the new record, the band have unveiled a new video for the opening track of the album, ‘Winter’.
G i f t work dark and heavy riffs into songs that are loaded with sticky, chewy episodes which are then resolved in even more intense outbursts: fierce, frenzied raw-ness packed into an all-consuming, tight-knit sound. Each song a rollercoaster in its own right, the band allows for room-filling soundscapes to gather your energy for the next ride.
Check out the exclusive premiere of the video for ‘Winter’ below:
The band had this to say about ‘Winter’:
‘Winter’ was one of the last songs to make it on RUPTURES but it was immediately clear that this song will become very special to us and the record as a whole. It is the album opener, it is the first single we’ve released as a band and now it’s also become our first music video. Roman and Dirk of IMMERSION FILM did an amazing job in transferring what we had in mind into those turbulent, stirring and intimate images.
The video amalgamates the escapist imaginings of an incarcerated person (played by the fantastic Franziska Hartung) with the pounding rhythms of this song and the band’s live performance; the switch into its wrecking, accelerating second part is matched in the pace of the images and things get quite intense towards the end.
We’re truly blown away by the result and extremely excited that we can share this with you.
RUPTURES was recorded by Alex Mahn and G i f t, then mixed and mastered by Jack Shirley at The Atomic Garden.
Order the new album “RUPTURES” on Bandcamp: https://thischarmingmanrecords.bandcamp.com/album/tcm-147-g-i-f-t-ruptures
About the new album:
The release of RUPTURES marks the musical endpoint of a period of about 3.5 years that challenged us personally and as a band in a multitude of ways. We’re extremely happy to finally hold it in our hands and super proud that we made it here.
Just as everyone out there, we’ve had to adopt to differing circumstances over the past years and it’s made us grow both as band and the persons we are, testing new modes of musical interaction and alignment as well as altering the relationship between the four of us. This process is still ongoing and we’re looking very much forward to what is to come and yet, RUPTURES will always be the music that we worked on during these super intense years and is inseparably intertwined with their highs and lows (their lows especially).
It’s hard to put into words how much this one means to us, we’ve put all we had into this record and are extremely happy with the outcome. Hope you’ll enjoy it as much as we do.
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