THE CATHODE RAY to release the long awaited new single ‘Heightened Senses’ – Listen Now

THE CATHODE RAY to release the long awaited new single 'Heightened Senses' - Listen Now

Stereogram Recordings are delighted to announce the release of ‘Heightened Senses’, the long-awaited new single by The Cathode Ray on September 27th 2019, available on video, download and stream formats. It’s released before the band’s third album, also called ‘Heightened Senses’, which will be available on gatefold vinyl, CD, download and streaming formats from November 1st 2019.

The infectious title track digs deeper into the more positive side of The Cathode Ray, previously hinted at on earlier singles such as ‘Mind’ and ‘This Force Of Nature’. Simultaneously a simple ode to the joy of life and a love song, chief songwriter Jeremy Thoms sings of “living in the here and now” and how “this energy inside” gives him “heightened senses, intensified and true, magnified for you”, all set to an insanely catchy slice of skewed perfect Pop which The Cathode Ray do so well. Think Portugal The Man meets The Strokes via Pharrell and Taylor Swift.

Listen to ‘Heightened Senses’ – BELOW:


 

Following on four and a half years from their last long-player, the ‘Heightened Senses’ album itself, as the name implies, finds the bands musical and lyrical palette raised to new levels.

It also includes previous single ‘Another World’ which was another bold musical statement from the band, evoking nothing less than the glam balladry of Suede, Roxy Music or Be-Bop Deluxe, married to subliminal electronica.

Simultaneously more Pop and progressive, direct and experimental, electronic and acoustic, the albums nine tracks take the listener on a rich and varied sonic journey, while lyrically it concerns itself variously with themes of fantasy and reality, alienation and belonging, hopes and fears, doubts and certainties, optimism and mortality, the past, present and future.

LIVE SHOWS:

Friday 1st November 2019. The Voodoo Rooms, Edinburgh
Thursday 28th November 2019. Audio, Glasgow, supporting B Movie
Friday 28th February 2020. Mono, Glasgow, supporting The Monochrome Set
Saturday 29th February 2020. Beat Generator Live! Dundee, supporting The Monochrome Set

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