Kero Kero Bonito Release New Album 'Time ‘n’ Place' Today

KERO KERO BONITO RELEASE TIME ‘N’ PLACE TODAY ON POLYVINYL LISTEN HERE INTERNATIONAL TOUR STARTS TOMORROW, US DATES SELLING FAST

Kero Kero Bonito recently signed to Polyvinyl Record Co., and kick off an international world tour tomorrow that is selling fast. Before the tour begins, today the band share their highly anticipated sophomore album Time ‘n' Place as a surprise release. Stream or download the album HERE, and purchase a physical copy, out January 11th, 2019, HERE. Get your tickets to an upcoming KKB show HERE before they’re gone. The sophomore full-length from Kero Kero Bonito, Time ‘n’ Place is an album ineffably shaped by the subconscious. Lead singer and chief lyricist Sarah Bonito (who was raised in the suburbs on the Japanese island Hokkaido) found herself rattled in recent years by recurring images in her dreams: a water park from when she was little, a hallway in her primary school. After those dreams started, she also received an unexpected photo from her brother: a picture of a plot of bare land that once held her childhood home, the house now demolished. (“I felt like I’d lost something, even though I didn’t know I needed it,” she says.) And in another heartbreak for Sarah, 2017 saw the death of her beloved childhood pet, a boy budgie named Nana whom she received soon after moving to the UK at age 13. At the same time, Sarah’s fellow KKB members experienced some life-changing upheaval, including the loss of several close family members. So when the London trio began writing again, they felt compelled to diverge from the carefree sensibilities of their early work (a form of kitsch electro-pop that jumbled up lo-fi dance music with bilingual lyrics, British TV references, and stories about animals). Resuming a very teenage and visceral approach to making music, KKB effectively morphed into a band, with Sarah on vocals, Jamie Bulled on bass, Gus Lobban on drums, and their friend James Rowland on guitar. Their debut for Polyvinyl, Time ‘n’ Place is a document of that band finding its voice, a coming-of-age story told in warped guitar solos, shining melodies, unnervingly tender lyrics about yogurt and seafoam and feral parakeets. Though much of Time ‘n’ Place was self-produced in Gus’s bedroom in the London suburb of Bromley, it was also partly recorded by Jimmy Robertson (Arctic Monkeys, Fuck Buttons) and Stereolab drummer Andy Ramsay (King Krule, Wire) at Ramsay’s Press Play Studio in South London. Along with Rowland, the album features contributions from noise/electronic musician Jennifer Walton, a string arrangement by composer Calum Bowen (aka bo en), and a three-part choir made up of Cecile Believe, Oscar Scheller, and Crying’s z (aka Elaiza Santos). Built on the same volatile energy that’s made KKB’s live shows famously mosh-heavy, Time ‘n’ Place collages those elements together in a sound that’s both chaotic as punk and symphonic as ’60s pop. For KKB the urgency of Time ‘n’ Place was imperative—they needed to process their pain and confusion in frantic, kinetic movements, and bashing away on drums and guitars felt more fitting than assembling songs on a laptop. It’s also much more true to their upbringing as musicians, back when Gus and Jamie were growing up in the South London suburbs and played in garage bands together all during their school days. With the added vision and otherworldly voice of Sarah—who spent her adolescence in the UK town of Kenilworth, and met Gus and Jamie on a web forum five years ago—the classically dissident music of their indie-rock forebears takes on weirder and more wonderful textures and colors, giving way to something dreamy and transcendent but not without its nightmare moments.

(“Make Believe” music video)

International tour dates 10/02 - Brighton, UK @ Patterns 10/03 - Bristol, UK @ Rough Trade [SOLD OUT] 10/04 - Manchester, UK @ YES [SOLD OUT] 10/05 - Glasgow, UK @ Broadcast [SOLD OUT] 10/06 - Dublin, IE @ Whelan’s 10/16 - Boston, MA @ Brighton Music Hall $ [SOLD OUT] 10/17 - Brooklyn, NY @ Elsewhere $ [SOLD OUT] 10/18 - Philadelphia, PA @ PhilaMOCA $ [SOLD OUT] 10/19 - Hoboken, NJ @ Stevens Institute of Technology 10/20 - College Park, MD @ MilkBoy ArtHouse $ [SOLD OUT] 10/23 - Atlanta, GA @ 529 Club $ [SOLD OUT] 10/24 - New Orleans, LA @ Hi-Ho Lounge $ 10/25 - Houston, TX @ Satellite Bar $ 10/26 - Austin, TX @ Barracuda $ 10/27 - San Antonio, TX @ Paper Tiger $ 10/28 - Dallas, TX @ Deep Ellum Art Company $ 10/30 - Norman, OK @ The Opolis $ 10/31 - Santa Fe, NM @ Meow Wolf $ 11/01 - Tucson, AZ @ 191 Toole $ 11/02 - Los Angeles, CA @ Regent Theater #$ [SOLD OUT] 11/03 - Long Beach, CA @ Tropicalia Fest 11/04 - Los Angeles, CA @ Regent Theater #$ 11/05 - San Francisco, CA @ The Fillmore # 11/08 - Portland, OR @ Wonder Ballroom #$ 11/09 - Vancouver, BC @ Biltmore Cabaret #$ 11/10 - Seattle, WA @ Neptune Theatre #$ 11/13 - Grinnell, IA @ Grinnell College - Gardner Lounge $ 11/14 - Chicago, IL @ Thalia Hall $ 11/15 - Detroit, MI @ Deluxx Fluxx $ 11/16 - Toronto, ON @ Lee's Palace $ [SOLD OUT] 11/17 - Montreal, QC @ La Sala Rossa $ 11/18 - Brooklyn, NY @ Market Hotel 11/22 - Paris, France @ L'Olympic Café 11/23 - Brussels, Belgium @ Beursschouwburg 11/24 - Amsterdam, Netherlands @ Sugarfactory 11/26 - Hamburg, Germany @ Uebel & Gefährlich 11/27 - Copenhagen, Denmark @ Ideal Bar 11/28 - Berlin, Germany @ The Monarch 11/29 - Warsaw, Poland @ Smolna 02/07 - Manchester, England @ Gorilla 02/08 - Bristol, England @ Thekla 02/09 - Glasgow, Scotland @ SWG3 05/23 - London, UK @ Electric Ballroom $ w/ Tanukichan # w/ Frankie Cosmos

Track List: 01. Outside 02. Time Today 03. Only Acting 04. Flyway 05. Dump 06. Make Believe 07. Dear Future Self 08. Visiting Hours 09. If I'd Known 10. Sometimes 11. Swimming 12. Rest Stop

(Credit: Tracey Ng)

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