LA-based instrumental doom / sludge laden post rock act FUTURE USSES (members of INTRONAUT) have crafted a dark and senses feeding record “The Existential Haunting” and we’re super pleased to let you traverse through its magical soundscapes in their full glory! The official street date is September 14th via Pelagic Records, but you can already check out the full stream below!
L.A.’s FUTURE USSES deliver an astounding instrumental record of devastatingly heavy, oppresively slow, yet shimmery and lush sludge-paced rock, run through a filter of nightmarish psychedelia. It’s hard to believe that „The Existential Haunting“ is really a debut album… the Three-piece’s sound comes across too shrewd, too canny and too sophisticated.
For fans of: Explosions In The Sky, Russian Circles, Sigur Ros, Pallbearer, Pelican, Sleep, Yob, Earth. FUTURE USSES are: Sacha Dunable – guitar; Derek Donley – drums; Dan Wilburn – bass.
But while FUTURE USSES have really only played a handful of shows in their short career, main songwriter Sacha Dunable has been a member of INTRONAUT for almost 15 years, and dabbled with various doom metal projects over the years, like BEREFT (LA). FUTURE USSES takes small elements of what those bands do and magnifies them, combining the slow-motion crushing power of doom with the atmosphere and dense harmonic tendencies of INTRONAUT. Drums and guitar were recorded at Clearlake Audio with Josh Newell (INTRONAUT, CYNIC), Derek Donley (INTRONAUT, BEREFT) and bass with Jon Nunez (TORCHE), all in Los Angeles. Mixing was done by CONVERGE’S Kurt Ballou at God City Studio.
FUTURE USSES lavish guitar sound is built around live guitar loops, „which presents a whole set of limitations but also virtually endless opportunities“, Sacha Dunable comments. „The beautiful thing about making an instrumental record is that you’re not obligated to impose any specific literal message onto the listener, but rather to concentrate on setting avibe that can be interpreted or personified naturally through the power of their own imagination.”
FUTURE USSES will be playing a number of West Coast shows this spring with bands like DEAD MEADOW, WHORES, SUMAC and HELMS ALEE, and a European tour in the fall.
European tour dates with ABRAHAM and SET AND SETTING:
10/15 Aschaffenberg, Germany @ Colo Saal
10/16 TBC France
10/17 London, UK @ Underworld
10/18 Plymouth, UK @ The Junction
10/19 Brussels, Belgium @ Magasin 4
10/20 Kiel, Germany @ Schabude
10/21 Oldenburg, Germany @ Alhambra
10/22 Copenhagen, Denmark @ Hotel Cecil
10/23 Berlin, Germany @ Musik & Frieden
10/24 Torun, Poland @ NRD
10/25 Cadca, Slovakia @ Acafe
10/26 Cluij, Romania @ Flying Circus
10/27 Bucharest, Romania @ Fabrica Club
10/28 Sofia, Bulgaria @ Live & Loud
10/29 Timisoara, Romania @ Capcana
10/30 Bratislava, Slovakia @ Kulturak Klub
10/31 TBC
11/1 Leipzig, Germany @ Werk 2
11/2 TBC
11/3 Bulle, Switzerland @ Ebullition
