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Ahead of the release of the Shit Robot album 'What Follows' on 6th May, DFA Records unveils the official video for the new single 'End of the Trail' featuring Alexis Taylor of Hot Chip. Following the track's worldwide release and a subsequent killer remix courtesy of Hamburg house maestro Roman Fluegel, End Of The Trail now receives a stunning visual accompaniment courtesy of a beautifully animated video by Irish director Kevin McGloughlin.

While the track finds Taylor once again lending with Marcus Lambkin's Shit Robot project his unique vocal & songwriting talents, the video renders his visage in a variety of artistic styles. The captivating effect provides as much of a lasting impression as the song itself, an undeniable earworm in the classic and most enthralling sense.

End Of The Trail is a taste of Lambkin's third Shit Robot LP for DFA, 'What , which arrives on May 6th 2016. In addition to two appearances by Taylor, other collaborators include DFA stalwarts Nancy Whang and Museum of Love, NYC punk vocalist Jay Greene and Juan Maclean on engineering duties.

What Follows. The 11-track album was conceived and recorded at Marcus’ home studio in a small town outside Stuttgart; worked on in various New York studios and then mixed over the course of 11 intense & coffee-fuelled days in DFA label mate Juan Maclean’s New Hampshire studio. The album follows Lambkin’s previous long-players, From The Cradle To The Rave (2010) and We Got A Love (2014), which drew plaudits from the likes of The Guardian and Pitchfork, and featured Reggie Watts and James Murphy among the array of contributors.

The Dublin-born producer has enlisted the help of a stellar cast of guests for What Follows, with previous collaborators Alexis Taylor (Hot Chip) and DFA stablemates Museum of Love and Nancy Whang returning, alongside new faces Jay Green and leftfield fellow Dubliner New Jackson. What Follows marks a departure in Lambkin’s process - a simple, but fundamental one: getting away from the computer. He said: “This record is a lot more analog than 'We Got A Love', almost all of it comes from connecting machines together and playing around.” What was your biggest influence? “Drum machines.” What began in Stuttgart was followed up on in New York, before being finished in an 11-day blitz in New Hampshire with Juan Maclean.

Lambkin: “This is the first time that I actually sat down and said, ‘I'm going to make an album now and I'm going to finish it by a specific date and time.’ I wanted to make a record that was more cohesive, that sounded like it all came from the one session.”

“I wanted it to reflect my DJing style a bit more, less pop, less disco, more machines. There's no live bass and barring a few hi-hats, there's no live drums.” The results are convincing - What Follows is definitely an album dedicated to dance music, but one that retains hallmarks of his previous LPs: good songs. Alexis Taylor turns in two memorable performances on lead single ‘End Of The Trail’ and album opener ‘In Love’; Museum of Love - Pat Mahoney and Dennis McNany - lend the album title track an air of something mined from the two months in between the death of Joy Division and the birth of New Order; and Nancy Whang gave such a strong vocal for ‘Lose Control’ that Lambkin and Maclean threw out the existing track and recorded the backing along with the vocal in one take, which the two producers working the machines live. Lambkin: “I had so much fun with Lose Control - and it inspired me to make so much more music. I've written 12 new tracks since finishing the record.”

Newbies Jay Green and New Jackson hit their marks too - Green - best known for fronting American punk bands Orchid and Panthers - narrates Is There No End as though it were sibling to From The Cradle To The Rave’s single Simple Things. New Jackson makes two appearances, on both Phase Out and OB-8 (Winter Version), adding oddball vocals and spaced-out Krautrock guitar arrangements.