The new Lasers album ‘Raw Files’ continues ‘Possible Start Conditions’, released in 2018 also on Beautiful Accident. It also picks up the baton left behind by the acclaimed LPs ‘Juno’ and ‘Exchange Levels’, both on Irregular, and of course the 2011 ‘Lasers’ EP with which it all started.
‘Raw Files’ LP has been produced over the last three years and consists of 10 original tracks, ‘There’s Water in Here’, ‘Clear all Data’, ‘7070’, ‘Eris’, ‘Cooperate’, ‘Hexagon in the Sea’, ‘Metronome’, ‘Meaningless’, ‘Isle of Dead’ and ‘The Erosion Number’. The path has been as creative as it is laborious. A huge set of ideas on the (mixing) desk where what the band wanted was finally achieved: that prolongation of the musical concept for which Lasers has always fought, one full of naturalness.
Songs of electronic sensitivity, physically and mentally danceable.
“During the process, we have only focused on making the record, without going anything beyond the conception of it, something similar to painting a blank canvas. Without giving much thought to the concept or general theme, just working on what comes out, until they are totally convinced”, Lasers tell us.
In a case like that of Lasers -music devourers and even great fans of live performances where real drums, sample machines, basses and synthesizers blend together- the influences on this new album are almost endless. Among which, and before pointing out that they do not notice or want to be like any of them in particular at all, would be Tangerine Dream, Kraftwerk, Claude Young, Shinichi Atobe, Floating Points or Prins Thomas.
Lasters want to emphasize it to us again, “as has been the case on previous albums, we have tried to mix the dynamism of Alex’s (Farré) drums with the arbitrary and live sound offered by analog synthesizers, always present far and wide. from the new album.”
In the technical section, it will not hurt to say that the drums were recorded at the Hukot Studio in Barcelona, with Milo Gomberoff, and the rest of the instruments and tracks in the band’s own studio “with the calm and relaxation offered by being able to experiment everything we wanted and without any time limitation,” Lasers explain.
In charge of mixing and giving sound to the album, to the compositions and ideas of Lasers, has once again been Iván Lorenzo, one of the components of the band. The cover photo is by Pedro Pegenaute, the same author of the design of ‘Juno’.
We are presenting the fifth track, ‘Cooperate’.
‘Raw Files’ LP will be available after the 24th of March HERE.
