Atom Brigade Atom Brigade

Vinyl Catalogue Number: SUBEX00128
Download Catalogue Number: SUBEX00129
General Release Date: 11/08/2023

Gloriously assured, Atom Brigade is a zeitgeist conjuration of 80's post-punk electro-pop; achingly cool, dead-pan & freshly baked.

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Atom Brigade is the debut album from an online 'super group' consisting of Martin Jensen (aka The Home Current), Rupert Lally, Amanda Jay (aka Star Madman) & Oliver Cherer (aka Gilroy Mere, Dollboy & many more).

Jensen reached out to Lally in 2020, sketching out the idea to workshop some new material via long distance file sharing (Jensen and Lally are based in Luxembourg & Switzerland respectively). Work began In earnest the following year, as musical arrangements began to be fleshed out, gradually finding coherent shape through a process of collaborative osmosis.

Reflecting on their process, Lally recalls the collective to and fro:
"Martin sent over a bunch of ideas, which generally included a beat, a bass line, and maybe some sort of melodic idea. I then overdubbed guitars and synths... Neither of us told the other what sort of things to play or what type of sounds to use.
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Jensen adds, "It was a very straightforward, natural and intuitive exercise. In addition, Rupert sent a couple of unfinished... more

releases August 11, 2023

Martin Jensen: Synths, Drums, Bass, Programming
thehomecurrent.bandcamp.com

Rupert Lally: Guitars, Synths, Backing Vocals
rupertlally.bandcamp.com

Star Madman: Vocals, Piano (tracks 2 & 9)
starmadman.bandcamp.com

Oliver Cherer: Vocals, Backing Vocals
(tracks 3, 5 & 6)
www.olivercherer.co.uk

Written and produced by Rupert Lally and Martin Jensen, except tracks 2 and 9: co-written by Amanda Jay and tracks 3, 5 and 6: co-written by Oliver Cherer

Artwork and mastering by Dan Seville
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