Since 2012, Percolator have been carefully honing their craft to become one of Ireland’s most consistently arresting experimental bands, defying expectation at every turn. Masterfully navigating the spaces between subgenres, the trio’s drone-laced, hypnotic motorik rhythms are offset by spontaneous, yet intuitive curveballs, elevated by their Stereolab-recalling vocal harmonies and the miasmic ecstasy of shoegaze.
The band has earned its stature as one of the most malleable, yet razor-sharp live units in Ireland, having extensively toured as far as France, while their 2017 debut album, Sestra, was The Thin Air’s runaway Album of the Year. Percolator’s second LP will be released in 2019, accompanied by extensive touring further afield.
Reviews:
"we’re confident in saying this is the Irish album of the year so far, and one that fully confirms Percolator as the most exciting Irish band since Girl Band" - Brian Coney // The Thin Air
"Think of Swans with a leaning towards Neu! krautrock driving rhythms. Swirls of loops and feedback clash and gather, falling in and out of harmony with a solid bass and drum to follow" - Norman Records
"Delicious mixture of the propulsion of Stereolab and the textures and crunch of My Bloody Valentine from this Dublin band’s debut album" - The Underground Of Happiness
"Percolator are one of the most intriguing and melodically arresting bands in Ireland at the moment. Both live and on record. Buy their album, go see them live" - Overblown
"Percolator occupy the spaces between subgenres, from dream-pop & shoegaze to krautrock, and some pastoral Canterbury prog along the way. Let Sestra wash over you" - The Thin Air
Hawk Bastard
Hawk Bastard create the kind of hefty synth-soaked locked groove psych that could only be birthed in a wooden shack on the psilocybe-laden foothills of Knocknagore in rural Cork. Which it is.
Percolator & Hawk Bastard | Plugd Records | Fri 8th Nov
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