Ich hätte zig finnische Bands hier anpreisen können, und KYYRIA oder CIRCLE waren dabei sehr weit vorne auf meiner Liste. Aber mit diesen Freaks um Kärtsy Hatakka und genau dieser Platte fing meine Leidenschaft für das durchgeknallte Land hoch im Nordosten nun mal an. Auch wenn diverse Folge-Langdreher noch deutlich mehr an hochklassigem Crossover, der den Namen auch verdient, bieten – ’Lights On!’ war der Beginn einer lebenslangen Liebe!
Giant Electric Pea and IQ are really happy to announce the new IQ album ‘Resistance’, a brand new double album with over a hundred and five minutes of new music.
Michael Holmes: “It’s taken a while for this album to develop, but to my mind that’s given it a nice ‘organic’ feel with some quite diverse atmospheres.
The initial idea for Resistance was to have a single CD with an accompanying ‘extras’ disc, but the closer it got to the release the more we felt that everything just gelled as a proper double album. That’s also meant we were able to give each track just the right amount of breathing space, whether that’s a three and a half minute thing or a more substantial twenty two minute ‘workout’.”
Available as a double CD and triple vinyl, ‘Resistance’ will be released on September 27th. To promote the album IQ will be playing a series of dates in the UK and Europe commencing with a special ‘Album Launch Concert’ at Islington Assembly Hall, London on the 7th September.
IQ are:
Paul Cook – drums
Neil Durant – keyboards
Tim Esau – bass
Mike Holmes – guitars
Peter Nicolls – vocals
Resistance:
Produced by Mike Holmes Engineered by Rob Aubrey Artwork by Tony Lythgoe
Disc 1
A Missile Rise
Stay Down Alampandria
Shallow Bay
If Anything
For Another Lifetime
Disc 2
The Great Spirit Way
Fire And Security
Perfect Space
Fallout