Maribou State – Kingdoms In Colour //Counter Records// (Released 7th September)

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£17.99 – LP

Maribou State announce their new album Kingdoms In Colour, releasing  via Ninja Tune’s Counter Records imprint, their first full-length since 2015’s breakthrough debut album Portraits.

The record features new single ‘Feel Good’ – a collaboration born of their friendship with Houston-based trio Khruangbin and a shared love of breakbeats, vintage surf riffs and a common desire to explore worldwide music cultures. “Sometimes a chance meeting plants the seed for something bigger,” say Khruangbin. “Such was the case when we met Maribou State at KOKO a couple of years ago. We are very happy to be involved in this project. And we ‘feel good’ already”.

The band continue their long standing relationship with Holly Walker who has previously vocalled fan favourites such as ‘Midas’, ‘Steal’ and ‘Tongue’. Also featured on the record is recent single ‘Turnmills’ – named after the legendary London club which closed its doors in 2008 – the release was accompanied by a sold-out ‘all-night’ DJ set at Corsica Studios raising money and awareness for the The Night Time Industries Association’s SaveNightlife campaign to protect the UK’s most vulnerable music venues from closure.

Beginning life in 2011 as a project between Chris Davids and Liam Ivory, Maribou State had released a string of EP’s and singles before the arrival of debut album Portraits propelled them to the world stage. After more than a year of touring they returned to the UK to begin work on new material, but relocating their studio from The Shack – their home-built studio at the back of Liam’s garden in Hertfordshire – to a new base in London found them struggling to find their creative flow. The solution was to start looking outward and back over their journey of the past two years. They began making regular excursions out of the city, setting up a temporary studio space for weeks at a time, they started to piece together a “sonic collage” – drawing on ideas that were written while touring in places like India, and on field recordings from Asia, Australia, Morocco, America and beyond – the result of which is the stunning Kingdoms In Colour.

“The first album felt quite insular for us” says Chris, “not just in sound, but literally that it was all written in The Shack. We always had a bigger idea of what we wanted it to be, we wanted to create something that was palpable, that could in some way transport you to another country or another place entirely in your mind”. “The idea with Maribou State was always to draw on influences from different parts of the world” continues Liam “by traveling, sampling, recording, we wanted to create this all encompassing thing. Which is what this second record has ended up being for us”.

Tracklisting:

1. Beginner’s Luck
2. Kingdom
3. Turnmills
4. Nervous Tics
5. Glasshouses
6. Part Time Glory
7. Feel Good (feat. Khruangbin)
8. Slow Heat
9. Vale
10. Kāma