Niagara - 'Seal' by Monotreme Records

Track 3 from the debut album of Niagara - out 11/2/13 in Europe and 25/3/13 UK + Rest of the world

Available on CD and digital formats.

Pre-order the album here: http://monotremerecords.limitedrun.com/categories/niagara

Niagara is the collaborative project of Turin-based singers/producers David Tomat (TOMAT / N.A.M.B./ GEMINI EXCERPT) and Gabriele Ottino (N.A.M.B. / Milena Lovesick / GEMINI EXCERPT), who like to take a less conventional approach to composition. Much of their music is developed by continuous experimentation with sounds during improvised sessions, in which vocals are often used as just another instrumental layer. However, they also have a great ear for a killer pop tune and the vocal chops to deliver it.

On ‘Otto’, their debut album, Niagara blend together a heady mixture of experimental pop, electronica and psychedelia to create their own brand of ‘avant-psych-tronica’.

The first single, ‘Seal’, is a joyously off-kilter mandolin-fueled pop paean to summer, with an uplifting chorus filled with handclaps, sweet west-coast harmonies and humourously surreal lyrics.

‘Watershipdown’ recalls the trippier, spacier synth-fuelled explorations of The Flaming Lips, with a driving beat, drones and chopped vocal samples.

Etacarinea tears a page from the ‘Sgt. Pepper’ era Beatles book with its bouncy brass band and synths, gradually morphing into a distorted but controlled psychedelic wig-out.

Galaxy Glacier is a pummeling slab of experimental improvisation fuelled by noisy synths, live drums and vocals used as an additional instrument.

It all ends with the whimsical ‘Love Me Love Me’ skipping lightly through a garden of syncopated percussion.

The album was recorded by Niagara and mixed by G.U.P. Alcaro at Superbudda Studio in Turin and mastered by Francesco Donandello at Calyx Mastering Studio in Berlin.

Niagara have also released a self-titled 4-track digital ep in February 2012.

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