DEMDIKE STARE - PASSION (MODERN LOVE)

DEMDIKE STARE - Passion (Modern Love) Since the release of their album 'Wonderland' in 2016, Demdike Stare have been recording material for this new doublepack 'Passion' - an asymmetric re-imagining of UK club styles taking in frenzied drum trax, shortwave jungle, pinging dancehall and clipped, post punk riddims.

Enlisting visual artist Michael England to create a cinematic accompaniment, his cover image is a hybrid/composite portrait exploring/questioning the current use of software in creating hyper reality and the manipulation of the self. This accompanying trailer Includes footage from Blackpool promenade, a Newark roller rink and voguing shot on his phone while on a night out in NYC, smudging the lines between live performance, documentary and sonic cinema.

Passion continues a process Demdike began on their Testpressing series of dismantling barriers between urban realism and fantasy, between experimental, pop and soundsystem cultures. It’s an outlandish configuration of avant-garde and ultimately functional club weapons designed and honed for the weightiest bassbins, and also their most direct and fuucked up record to date - a raucous, joyful 9-track smash that comes off like a night on a glamorous, neon-lit bender.