THE SICK MAN OF EUROPE releases new mini-album 'Fade/Form (The Bunker Tapes)' today via The Leaf Label & announces European tour.
THE SICK MAN OF EUROPE- Releases mini-album 'Fade/Form (The Bunker Tapes)' today via The Leaf Label
- European tour dates announced
Photo credit: Bella Keery
Earlier this year, The Sick Man of Europe released debut self-titled album and today returns with 'Fade/Form (The Bunker Tapes)' out now via The Leaf Label. It is a live document of The Sick Man Of Europe’s evolution from the studio to the stage and is accompanied by a full-length performance video. It is released as a 4-track digital mini-album, and as a limited edition 5-track cassette. The Sick Man Of Europe will tour the UK and Europe in October and November 2025.
Listen here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F4E09qBKmKE
In this summer of discontent, The Sick Man Of Europe meet in secret in a room beneath a factory on a hill. Crushed by the weight of brick and steel, and consumed by the relentless hunger for progress - here to document change. It’s an escape from the city and from the history unfolding in front of our eyes. These times are transient and our ideals are called into question at every juncture.
Five bodies stand in this room. An engineer and three operatives. They look towards the foreman. The spokesperson. For guidance and clarity where there is none.
“These ideas have evolved into something I never thought they would,” explains The Sick Man Of Europe. “Through exposure they have accumulated weight. The meanings have warped and twisted and they’ve become something else entirely - something more urgent. Repetition has deepened the grooves and cut into the earth. They are now beyond my careful control. Captured for posterity.”
A mechanical clank and the whir of magnetic tape. A voice from the depths.
“Transitions only exist when they are observed. Each document, when mapped to time, is nothing but a measurement of change. See this as snapshot, somewhere between the death of one idea and the birth of another. It is both the beginning and the end.”
The Sick Man Of Europe live:
1st Oct - The Attic, Leeds, UK
2nd Oct - Golden Lion, Todmordon, UK
3rd Oct - Flying Duck, Glasgow, UK
4th Oct - Zerox, Newcastle, UK
18th Oct - Sŵn Festival, Cardiff, UK
23rd Oct - Left Of The Dial Festival, Rotterdam, NL
24th Oct - Left Of The Dial Festival, Rotterdam, NL
25th Oct - Vera Downstage, Groningen, NL
26th Oct - Rabataz, Halle (Saale), DE
27th Oct - Neue Zukunft, Berlin, DE
28th Oct - Altes Volksbad, Mannheim, DE
29th Oct - They're Gonna Be Big Festival, Paris, FR
30th Oct - Cafk, Nantes, FR
31st Oct - Creative Seeds, Rennes, FR
6th Oct - Club Cheek, London, UK
7th Oct - Mutations Festival, Brighton, UK
8th Oct - Simple Things Festival, Bristol, UK
Fade/ Form (The Bunker Tapes) tracklist (Digital/ Cassette):
1. A1. Sanguine
2. A2. Obsolete
3. A3. Profane Not Profound
4. B1. Transactional
B2. Moderate Air Quality
Fade/ Form (The Bunker Tapes) artwork:
Quotes:
“Blends pulsating motorik beats, nagging basslines and droning electronics into all-consuming atmospheres. Fronted by foreboding vocals that sit somewhere between Ian Curtis’ melancholic baritone and something more experimental, phrases are repeated over and over like mantras, slowly building in intensity until the words take on entirely new meanings” - Electronic Sound
"The Sick Man Of Europe blend Krautrock aspects with charred remains of post-punk, tying this together by tapping into the UK’s current dystopian darkness" - CLASH
"An eight-track album that commands your attention and keeps you there for all of its run" - When The Horn Blows
"Precise, intense and experimental post-punk executed with confident conviction" - Soundsphere Magazine
"A compelling musical manifesto" - NARC
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