Lost Under Heaven Reveals New Single "Come" With Virtual Reality Video; New Album Out January 18

REVEALS NEW SINGLE “COME” WITH VIRTUAL REALITY VIDEO NEW ALBUM LOVE HATES WHAT YOU BECOME OUT JANUARY 18

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“…an intense, transcendent second album…a powerful emotional punch.” – Q "…widescreen, cinematic scope…a towering statue of glittering noise." – Stereogum “…nothing short of haunting.” – Consequence of Sound “…enthralling…music for the here and now…” – DIY "...Roberts can craft an epic at will and these songs all go for broke, making LUH’s ambition their greatest asset." – UPROXX Lost Under Heaven have today shared a new single along with a ground-breaking VR video produced in partnership with Treatment Studios. “Come” is taken from their new album, Love Hates What You Become, due for release January 18 via Mute. Experience “Come” here. Love Hates What You Become is released January 18. Pre-order the album here and listen to previously released songs “For The Wild,” “Bunny’s Blues” and “The Breath of Light.” In the spring of 2017, Treatment Studios – known for their innovative live visuals created for the likes of U2, Sigur Rós, and New Order – approached Lost Under Heaven with a proposition. They wanted to experiment with virtual reality to learn technique and process that in turn would enrich their creative practice. If Lost Under Heaven provided a song, a concept and direction, they would design and build it, fully realized in immersive VR. At the time, the duo were in the process of writing a new record, and decided to share the demo of “Come,” a bombastic banger exploring the "tantric union of masculine and feminine energy and the manifesting potential of sexual transmutation.” Ebony Hoorn, the band’s visionary director, shared a storyboard depicting “the symbolic journey from separation to unification, where following a dramatic fall from the heavens you hurtle into a wasteland, as a disembodied consciousness you begin to rise, life starts to blossom as you approach the womb within the Tree of Life…”  Over the following year, in an organic process of exploration and experimentation, Treatment’s creative director, Damian Hale, developed the work in close dialog with Hoorn, constantly evolving the initial blueprint and pushing technical possibility with creative solutions. The sole ambition being to see how far they could reach across uncharted territory. Ebony further explains, “it was a completely new approach to the visual creation, to try and create a psychedelic first-person experience told wholly through setting and atmosphere, where the musical elements of the track animate the surroundings, almost as if you exist within the pulsing heart of the song.” A startling, thought-provoking record, Love Hates What You Become follows the band’s 2016 debut, Spiritual Songs for Lovers to Sing. Shot full of incisive social commentary, this record captures the couple at their most musically raw and visceral. A striking evolution from their debut record is the prominence of Ebony’s vocals, notable on the album’s formidable first single "Bunny’s Blues." “Creating this character of Bunny began with a performance piece I did back in Amsterdam,” Ebony explains. “She became a playful tool to confront how male-dominated society attempts to control both women and nature without having any real understanding or respect for their being and innate power.” August saw the release of second single and album closer "For The Wild." “I started writing that song years ago almost as a pastiche of trying to write real this rock’n’roll savior,” Ellery justifies. “The rock’n’roll revolutionary feels such a culturally irrelevant cliché now. We’re living in a mechanised world seemingly indifferent to the longings of the human soul.” The band released the album’s third single "Post Millennial Tension" in the lead up to their recent US tour. Reflecting on their approach to performing live, Ellery says, “We’re essentially trying to keep it as straight up as possible, whilst maintaining the sonic ambition of the productions.” They are joined by drummer and Ableton-manipulator Ben Kelly. Ebony, who takes on the role of the band’s visual director, elaborates: “Over the past year I have had opportunities to begin realizing ideas I have had from the outset of the project; from developing a VR work to capturing my beloved Giallo aesthetic on 16mm. The ambition was always to create audio/ visual experiences. The live shows around the debut album ended up being more traditional for the sake of functionality; but now we have made the right connections and collaborators to really start to explore the visual ambitions.” Lost Under Heaven 2019 Tour January 18 – Bristol, England – Rough Trade January 22 – Nottingham, England – Rough Trade January 23 – Brighton, England – Rialto Theatre January 24 – London, England – Oslo January 25 – Leeds, England – Headrow House January 27 – Glasgow, Scotland – Nice N Sleazy January 28 – Newcastle upon Tyne – Think Tank January 29 – Manchester, England – Gorilla February 18 – Paris, France – O’Sullivans Backstage By The Mill February 19 – Cologne, Germany – Blue Shell February 20 – Hamburg, Germany – Hafenklang February 21 – Berlin, Germany – BiNuu February 23 – Stockholm, Sweden – Daze Days Festival February 25 – Oslo, Norway – Rockefeller February 26 – Copenhagen, Denmark – Musik Loppen