Gold release video for 'Teenage Lust', new album released next week
GOLD have today released the video for White Noise, a track taken from their upcoming album, entitled Optimist. The Dutch "post-everything" sextet will release their third full length album via Ván Records on February 24.
Watch the video for Teenage Lust here
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GOLD's mastermind Milena Eva says: "Teenage Lust is about naivety. We all sometimes have the urge to shut ourselves off from all the outside negativity, to bury our heads in the sand. In the video we reflect on consumerism and materialism as a means to do so. As addictive sedatives. Lester Burnham said it best when he said 'This isn't life, it's just stuff'."
In March, GOLD will perform all over Europe in support of Optimist - full dates are below.
After the artistic success of 2015's No Image - which united journalists, musicians, music lovers and even a pro-wrestler in its appraisal - GOLD returns with its successor. Together with producer Randall Dunn (a.o. Sunn O))), Earth, Ash Borer, Marissa Nadler), GOLD have put their angular drive, their blackened guitar textures, and the composed yet vulnerable vocal delivery of Milena Eva in an even broader context. GOLD have created an almost unlimited space for their unique unity of beauty and cruelty to crush and confuse even more.
Within her lyrics Milena Eva lays bare her insecurities, internal struggles and self-doubt, as a means to reach out and connect. To ultimately inspire acceptance and love of the self, of the known and of the alien. To resist the apathy as expressed in the album's first lyric - 'Binge-watching the world collapse' - and to include.
With their nonconformist outsider approach, which the New York Times strikingly defined as "serenely intense... near-metal", GOLD has managed to find a previously uninhabited spot that is truly their own. To achieve this in the heart of such a densely populated musical landscape, rather than at its outskirts, is the exciting result of intense years of performing and self-reflection.
Optimist is an adventurous confirmation of GOLD’s reputation as an enthralling band, on stage and on record.
OPTIMIST - track list
- You Too Must Die
- Summer Thunder
- White Noise
- Teenage Lust
- No Shadow
- I Do My Own Stunts
- Be Good
- Come With Me
- Tear
GOLD have also announced a series of tour dates in support of the album release, with more shows to be confirmed throughout 2017.
- 16.03 - NL - Rotterdam @ V11
- 17.03 - CH - Winterthur @ Gaswerk
- 18.03 - CH - Olten @ Le Coq d’Or
- 19.03 - AT - Linz @ Willy*Fred
- 20.03 - AT - Wien @ Venster 99
- 21.03 - DE - Leipzig @ 4rooms
- 22.03 - DE - Göttingen @ Freihafen
- 23.03 - DE - Rostock @ JAZ
- 24.03 - DK - København @ Stengade
- 25.03 - NO - Oslo @ Blitz
- 27.03 - DE - Kiel @ Alte Meierei
- 28.03 - DE - Hamburg @ Hafenklang
- 29.03 - DE - Erlangen @ JUKUZ
- 30.03 - FR - Lille @ El Diablo
- 31.03 - DE - Köln @ Limes
- 01.04 - BE - Antwerpen @ Antwerp Music City
Optimist is available to pre-order on vinyl and CD via Ván Records.
