Minor Victories (Slowdive, Mogwai, Editors) Announce New Album, Share Video for New Song “Cogs”: Watch
Minor Victories is the supergroup of Slowdive’s Rachel Goswell, Mogwai’s Stuart Braithwaite, Editors’ Justin Lockey, and his brother James Lockey of Hand Held Cine Club. Today, the group has announced a new album Orchestral Variations–a series of instrumental interpretations of the songs from their self-titled debut record. Orchestral Variations will be released on clear 180-gram double vinyl on Black Friday (November 25) in North America via Fat Possum. It’s out in the rest of the world and digitally on January 27.
The band have also shared a new music video for the album’s first track “Cogs.” The black-and-white video shows the song being played over scenes of a man walking through a city, a forest, and other settings. Below, find the music video, the album’s tracklist and artwork, and the band’s upcoming tour dates.
In a statement, Justin Lockey said of Orchestra Variations:
I don’t really know that much about music in terms of theory, notes, scales etc. I generally just fuck about with things until it sounds right to my ear… So I guess to call this album ‘Orchestral Variations,’ it would have to be in the loosest ever sense of the term.
When we were putting together the Minor Victories album, a lot of the music came about through string arrangements, motifs, melodies, countermelodies and other such noodlings I was messing about with. This record kind of takes it back to that initial point, and re-imagines the whole record from that standpoint–the bare bones, the hint at a vocal melody, not relying on any backbeat–but stripping the songs back to the base elements and then piece-by-piece making an entirely new record. It takes the songs and elements around them and the phrases into a new place, mostly born out of hindsight and I guess a curiosity to fuck around with it all long enough until it sounded right to my ear. From all that an entirely new record was formed. It’s not a remix album, or b-sides… it’s just another way at looking/hearing things.
Orchestral Variations:
01 Cogs
02 Breaking My Light
03 The Thief
04 Give Up the Ghost
05 Scattered Ashes
06 Folk Arp
07 For You Always
08 A Hundred Ropes
09 Higher Hopes
10 Out to Sea
Minor Victories:
10-24 Minalo, Italiy – Santeria Social Club
10-25 Vienna, Austria – Ottakringer Brewery
10-26 Lausanne, Switzerland - Les Docks
10-27 Brussels, Belgium – Botanique
10-29 Paris, France – Pitchfork Music Festival Paris
10-30 Düsseldorf, Germany – Zakk
10-31 Berlin, Germany – SO36
11-01 Dresden, Germany – Beatpol
11-02 Munich, Germany – Feierwerk
11-04 Reykjavik, Iceland – Iceland Airwaves
11-05 Den Haag, Netherlands – Crossing Border Festival
11-06 Hamburg, Germany – Markthalle
11-07 Copenhagen, Denmark – Pumpehuset
12-02 Glasgow, Scotland – The SSE Hydro *
12-03 Leeds, England – First Direct Arena *
12-05 Manchester, England – Manchester Arena *
12-06 Nottingham, England – Motorpoint Arena *
12-08 Birmingham, England – Barclaycard Arena *
12-10 Dublin, Ireland – 3Arena *
12-11 Liverpool, England – The Magnet
12-12 Newport, England – Newport Centre *
12-13 Oxford, England – O2 Academy 2 Oxford
12-14 Brighton, England- Brighton Centre *
12-15 London, England – Wembley Arena *
* with Placebo
Watch Minor Victories’ “Film One” via Pitchfork.tv:
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