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Exploring the symbioses between humans and technology
14-tracker, inc. focus track ‘Choosing Life’ – Get it HERE
Extensive UK/EU Tour: latest full dates/venues list – tickets On Sale Now
Electronic/live band Tinlicker’s fourth album (first as a live NL/UK trio) ‘Dreams Of The Machine’, an audacious and timely look at technology, is out now on Remember The Future/[PIAS]. The LP includes four previous LP singles and ten new cuts including focus track ‘Choosing Life’. With a new UK/EU tour starting March 3rd & NA tour announce imminent, it’s going to be a packed year for Tinlicker.
‘Dreams of the Machine’ LP: Tinlicker’s commitment to live performance, organic use of live instruments, soulful vocals & lyrics, emotional indie guitar & orchestral elements, alongside superbly skilled production, makes them ideally placed to creatively confront the presence of technology in our daily lives. ‘This [album] era looks at technology and where it’s taking humans. It’s a metaphor for computers or AI having human dreams and emotions – the machine wanting to be human, while people behave more like robots. There’s a shift happening. I hope the music helps people wake up to our humanity: that computers can’t do what we do.’ Tinlicker
Focus track ‘Choosing Life’: Hero’s haunting, heartfelt voice rejects ‘living in fear’, calling for a personal response to the challenge of an artificial digital world. A disturbing low-frequency bass vibrates beneath lively breakbeat percussion, while a melodic, stabby synth theme duets with the vocal.
Album tracks: previous singles ‘Release’ – high energy dance fuel; ‘Reborn’ – late 90s/early 00s Eurodance vibe; ‘I Want My Freedom’ – manifesto of independence; and ‘God In You’ – portentous dub techno/90s synth, are joined by ten melodic new tracks including the acid-drenched, siren build/monster drop ‘Spirit Of Time’, the clear, singing indie guitar sound in ‘4AM’ and ‘Melancholia’, piano (‘Awake Consciousness’, ‘Dancing In The Dark’…), folky, Dido-reminiscent (‘Calling’)… Songs with lyrics & voice centre stage, others instrumental or with choral FX… (see full track list below). To sum up, typically Tinlicker in their very variety, danceable yet listenable, emotional yet sharply produced.
‘How would a Machine interpret nature in a dream? What are the boundaries between the physical and the digital world? Can we create a place in which both exist in harmony, organic and digital, where humans and machines dream together?’ Tinlicker
What is definitely real is Tinlicker’s first major tour as a live trio, which kicks off in Berlin’s Astra in early March; see below for full list of EU/UK dates including new venues/cities & welcome returns, and keep an eye out for NA dates announced soon…
‘Dreams of the Machine’ is out now on Remember The Future/PIAS. Get it HERE.
Album ‘Dreams Of The Machine’ Tracklist:
1. Awake Consciousness
2. I Want My Freedom
3. Melancholia
4. Dancing in the Dark
5. Release
6. God In You
7. Choosing Life focus track
8. Mothership
9. Surrender
10. 4AM
11. Spirit of Time
12. Glow
13. Calling
14. Reborn
Tinlicker Tour Dates – all tickets here: https://www.tinlicker.com/shows
03 MAR Astra – Berlin, DE
04 MAR Palladium – Warsaw, PL
06 MAR Élysée Montmartre – Paris, FR
07 MAR Carlswerk – Köln, DE
11 MAR Zoom – Frankfurt, DE
13 MAR AFAS Live – Amsterdam, NL
16 MAR National Stadium – Dublin, IE
18 MAR SWG3 Galvanizers – Glasgow, UK
19 MAR Albert Hall – Manchester, UK
20 MAR Document – Bristol, UK
21 MAR Exhibition – London, UK
26 MAR Poolen – Copenhagen, DK
27 MAR Sentralen – Oslo, NO
28 MAR Hamburger Börs – Stockholm, SE
19 JUN Ancienne Belgique – Brussels, BE
Festival Shows include:
4-6 JUN – Northside, Aarhus, DK
20JUN – Southside Festival, Neuhausen Ob Eck, DE
21 JUN – Hurricane Festival, Scheessel, DE
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