“fit for the intergalactic mosh pit”
The Fader
"this trio seems intent on humanizing the EDM beat while actually upping its power not diluting it"
The New York Times
“a futuristic transmission that’ll expand your mind and get your body moving”
AV Club
“fresh, hybridized modes with which to express a transcendent spirituality”
The Stranger
“perfectly, exquisitely, meticulously locked-in… Hyper-Dimensional Expansion Beam will be an absolute monster”
Stereogum
“psychedelic and exploratory”
Brooklyn Vegan
September 9, 2022 – The Comet Is Coming, London based experimental electronic trio, today release their third single “TECHNICOLOUR” from their much anticipated studio album Hyper-Dimensional Expansion Beam due out September 23 via Impulse! Records. The scraunchy single lurches with syncopation and tripped-out synths, and is accompanied by a cinematic, dystopian cyberpunk infused new music video directed by Charlie Roberts.
Watch here and pre-order the album, including an exclusive Clear Vinyl LP here.
The music video features two figures in a seemingly dystopian future circling around a violent and beautiful energy field that strips our main characters of their skin showing only flesh – a symbol of letting go of cultural expectations. The video emphasizes the cinematic nature of The Comet Is Coming’s music – muscular and energetic, full of tension and release and though instrumental music, imbued with coded meaning about the possibilities of our future, technology and the evolution of humanity.
Danalogue, synth player and in-house producer for The Comet Is Coming, says about the new single and video:
“The circle symbolises many things: strength, connection, letting go of expectations and the beauty in imperfection. By being drawn into this new potentiality, we can transcend the current conditions of our cultural programming and move forward together. Adaptation is born out of necessity and is both terrifying and awesome in equal amounts.”
Notes To Editors:
On their fourth album, Hyper-Dimensional Expansion Beam, The Comet Is Coming – synth magician/producer Danalogue, drummer-producer Betamax, and saxophonist/spiritual riffologist Shabaka– burn brightly, soundtracking our epoch of change in ways their contemporaries simply aren’t trying to.
The process: emerging straight from lockdown, the trio went to Peter Gabriel’s Real World decked out studio tucked away in the English countryside. With the help of the band’s longtime engineer Kristian Craig Robinson, the trio embarked on a four-day long recording process guided by collective intuition, sheer skill, and transcendent improvisation. Next, Danalogue and Betamax fastidiously sampled the band’s own creations, alchemically weaving the out-of-body musical collisions with microscopic attention to detail in the production room. This distillation process yields a profound coherent musical message about the future of technology, humankind, spirituality, and the connectivity of the universe. Which just so happens to rock.
Tracks like “PYRAMIDS” drenched in layers of controlled synth-syncopation and Shabaka’s iconic minimalism pulsing forward and “ATOMIC WAVE DANCE” are stone-cold bangers, made for a nightclub on a space station. “LUCID DREAMER,” on the other hand is a vulnerable and emotional guided meditation led by Danalogue’s Ensoniq synth, which eerily evokes humanoid choir voicings through technology. This album has the unrelenting, driving and fiery muscle that Comet is known for, but creates a space where ideas about the future – dystopian or hopeful – technology, artificial intelligence, hidden meanings and transcendental transformations can exist.
The Comet Is Coming formed when Soccer96 – Danalogue and Betamax’s synth-drum tron-like duo – were playing and captured jazz saxophonist Shabaka Hutchings attention. After some tentative conversations between the duo and Shabaka, he hopped on stage at a show on a trial run and the energy coarsed between the trio and Comet was born. This union was a result of, as Danalogue describes it, “the algorithm of fate.” See, they all attended Guildhall School of Music where Dan and Max met - but Dan and Shabaka were a tale of missed connections as they shared the same saxophone teacher. Thankfully, fate’s algorithm guided the trio together. Hyper-Dimensional Expansion Beam follows their 2019 Trust In The Life Force of the Deep Mystery, which garnered praise from NPR, Rolling Stone, Pitchfork, The New Yorker, Washington Post, and their follow-up EP The Afterlife. This is their fourth full-length studio album.
The Comet Is Coming
Website - https://www.thecometiscoming.co.uk/
IG - https://www.instagram.com/cometcoming/?hl=en
Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/thecometiscoming
FALL 2022 U.S. TOUR DATES
September 24 – Bentonville, AR, USA – Format Festival
September 25 – Nashville, TN, USA – Basement East
September 29 – Vancouver, BC, Canada – Rickshaw Theatre
September 30 – Seattle, WA, USA – Crocodile Showroom
October 01 – Portland, OR, USA – Revolution Hall
October 03 – San Francisco, CA, USA – The Independent
October 04 – San Francisco, CA, USA – The Independent
October 05 – Los Angeles, CA, USA – El Rey Theater
October 13 – Chicago, IL, USA – Thalia Hall
October 14 – Toronto, ON, Canada – Axis Club
October 15 – Montreal, QC, Canada – Fairmount Theater
October 18 – Boston, MA, USA – Crystal Ballroom
October 19 – Philadelphia, PA, USA – Underground Arts
October 20 – Washington, DC, USA – Union Stage
October 22 – New York, NY, USA – Bowery Ballroom
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