New Autumn Album From Simian Ghost

Sweden's Simian Ghost announce the release of a new colossal 18-track album 'The Veil', to be launched on September 8.

Filled with shape-shifting layers of psych-pop whimsy thatsharpen to a focused foot tapping indie, 'The Veil' contains a wonderful spectrum of supremely catchy miserabilism... At one end, a sea of Brian Wilson-esqe melodic freedom and depth ('Float', 'August Sun', 'Echoes Of Songs'), punctuated with mid-Atlantic angst-pop ('A Million Shining Colours') and sonic fabrication ('Secret Meadow', 'Endless Chord'), all bookended with a nubile loose-limbed indie ('I Will Speak Until I’m Done', 'Never Really Knew', 'The River Ouse', 'Summer Triptych').

“When we started writing 'The Veil' we had already finished nine new songs, for what we thought would be our new album,” explains lead singer Sebastian Arnström. “By now, changing direction completely mid-production has become a natural part of our working process. We decided to leave the more electronic and loop based material we currently had aside. Instead we've tried to develop our songwriting, in part by looking back in music history.”

Inspired by Brian Wilson, Gershwin and Debussy, and influenced by Yo La Tengo, Deerhunter, The Flaming Lips and Broadcast, Simian Ghost hit a rich seam between ambient experimentation and the joys of pop, soul and sweet 70's funk.

“The last album we did during a couple of summer months, taking breaks to go swimming and so on. This time we really isolated  ourselves, sitting in our cellar room with a couple of cheap microphones and lot's of instruments,” says Sebastian of the greater time spent making their new album. ”We've continued working with focus on the album format. We like great songs, but we love great records.”