{"title":"Gnoomes","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGnoomes is a music group formed in February 2014 and based in Perm, Russia. The band consists of Alex, Pavel, Dmitriy, and Masha.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWith their unique blend of psychedelic rock and shoegaze influences, Gnoomes has gained recognition for their captivating soundscapes and experimental approach to music.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSince their formation, Gnoomes has released several critically acclaimed albums and performed at numerous festivals around the world. Their mesmerizing live performances have earned them a dedicated fan base and solidified their position as one of the most exciting bands in the contemporary music scene.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"ax-ox","title":"Ax Ox","description":"\u003cp\u003eAs musicians across the world have watched the last decade systematically eating away at the infrastructure by which they pursue their art, triumphs against adversity have sometimes entered the realm of cliche .Yet few bands have undergone quite the travails that Perm, Russia’s Gnoomes have on the road to the release of their fourth release on Rocket Recordings,\u003ci\u003e Ax Ox\u003c\/i\u003e. From such traumatic circumstances, with the band having overcome the stress of a pandemic, illness, depression and serious turmoil in their home country, have arrived a kaleidoscopic and questing vision shot through with potent melancholia and strident optimism. Here the component parts that have always made up Gnoomes’ fresh and wide-eyed aesthetic - dreampop radiance, bold electronic experimentation and the propulsive motorik drive which moves them onward - are rendered still more vivid and transcendent. \u003ci\u003eAx Ox\u003c\/i\u003e runs through a gamut of vibrant emotion across its eleven tracks, from the elemental blast of kraut-pop that is ‘The Neighbour’ to the crystalline and techno-fied ‘Loops’, and across moments of jarring and skewed ambience such as ‘Mirror’ and ‘The Bridge’. The album also chronicles a fractious relationship which the band have with their home countrry. Gnoomes’ Sasha Painkov and his wife Masha Piankova have both been forced to leave the country when mobilisation was announced in pursuit of safety. However, as Sasha relates. “In our opinion this album could be a psychedelic musical about growing up and living in the post Soviet Russia. 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Yet rather than being confined or frustrated by their surroundings, the three-piece outfit have used their origins as a springboard to the unknown, via the skysurfing radiance of their debut album for Rocket Recordings, 'Ngan!' \"We think about isolation as a dream trigger, and sometimes a dream becomes a motivation to do something cool\" Gnoomes relate. \"Being in a band is the one thing that keeps us from Russian madness.\" \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'Ngan!' is an album suffused with a potent sense of wonder - it's bookended by the enormous twin psychic monoliths of 'Roadhouse' and 'My Boy', which form dreamlike aural travelogues clocking in at around a quarter-hour each, and take influences as diverse as the fiery avant-six-string scree of Atlas Sound, the classic motorik of Neu! and Kompakt label techno, and sculpt them into a wide-eyed, kaleidoscopic sweep of sound that the band themselves, keen to break free of generic convention, dub 'stargaze'. 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It may only have been eighteen months since \u003ci\u003eNgan!\u003c\/i\u003e, the band’s first release for Rocket, whose self-styled ‘stargaze’ approach marked a glorious collision between melodic sweetness, skysurfing guitar experimentation and motorik magnificence, yet the band have already moved on to a sonic landscape still more adventurous and ethereal on \u003ci\u003eTschak!\u003c\/i\u003e, not to mention an emotionally resonant approach that’s bewitching to witness. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTaking in torrents of guitar noise and electronic extrapolations both blissfully kosmische and aggressively abrasive, it exists outside of all or any convenient genres, a vivid and singular work by three dreamers-at-heart forced to manifest their vision into a psychic defence to the circumstances surrounding them. Working in splendid isolation thanks to a studio space provided by their work for a local radio station, the band had time and space for the alchemical process of creating \u003ci\u003eTschak!\u003c\/i\u003e entirely on their own terms. Central to the this were a collection of Russian synths that they gathered, whose eccentric arpeggios and analogue textures form crucial ingredients on songs like \u003ci\u003eSeverokamsk\u003c\/i\u003e and the title track, arriving at a sound that forms a star-crossed and timeless marriage between the experimentation of krautrock and the lineage of Warp Records. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLP - Limited Green Vinyl with Download.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rocket Recordings","offers":[{"title":"LP","offer_id":50495372427595,"sku":"1004881","price":19.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"CD","offer_id":50495373214027,"sku":"1004882","price":12.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/021f5985-2b8f-422a-bc8e-2083c7c67118_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1727710195"},{"product_id":"mu","title":"Mu!","description":"\u003cp\u003eGnoomes, the Russian outfit who blend a potent mix of psychedelic stargaze, kraut techno and kosmiche pop return with a brand new album, \u003ci\u003eMu!\u003c\/i\u003e their third for Rocket Recordings. Since the release of their last album \u003ci\u003eTschak!\u003c\/i\u003e the three piece has turned into a quartet with synth player Masha Piankova joining the band. And it was the success of their tours in the UK and Europe that subconsciously created a template and tone for where the band would go next with this new album; to capture that surging drive and throbbing assault of their pulverising live shows. “We decided to make this record more live and less electronic,” Sasha, singer and guitarist from Gnoomses said. “We were thinking about how to make it sound more dynamic.” Masha’s introduction was a key one, with her replacing Sasha on synth bass whilst he moved over to second guitar to add a fuller and more impactful sonic crunch. MU! has been part recorded in the same old soviet radio station where the band recorded Tschak! part in a professional studio and then part at home.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis was to ensure the best capture of Gnoomes live assault. The results brim with a magnitude and sense of coherence that belies some of the environment it was created in. Fuzz-driven guitars shift in engulfing waves, resembling shoegaze giants at their most ferocious, whilst elsewhere layered vocals stack on top of one another, weaving between pristine melody and augmented discordance. Whilst the glacial electronics and coldwave tendencies that soaked much of their previous album may be more absent here, this record pulses with an electronic tinge that bubbles more subtly under the surface of immersive guitars\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis is a cleansing record, no doubt, but one that washes over you with both brutal force and deft subtleness. With the completion of this album, it also wraps up a trio of records all connected via punctuation – \u003ci\u003eNgan! Tschak! Mu!\u003c\/i\u003e - but with one each distinct in its own tone and sense of evolution. 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