Arcadea, the synth-driven cosmic trio featuring Brann Dailor (Mastodon), Core Atoms, and João Nogueira (ex-Hiss From the Moat), have dropped a visualizer for the title track from their upcoming album The Exodus of Gravity, scheduled to arrive on August 22 via Relapse Records. Following the surreal sci-fi video for “Fuzzy Planet,” the band now shares “Exodus of Gravity” alongside a visualizer spotlighting the album’s cover artwork by Skinner. Self-produced and recorded at West End Sound (located in the basement of Mastodon’s Ember City studio), the album promises a psychedelic, space-age soundful experience. This marks Arcadea’s first full-length since their 2017 self-titled debut.
Atoms explains:
“It’s the future we find ourselves in, the once fertile terrain of New Arcadea seems barren, with the exception of lifeless robots & silent spores. Anxiety, doubt, curiosity & wonder propel the intrepid synthetic-observer through an odyssey. Slowly integrating with the spores, new senses are born within. A recognition of the possibility of planetary life ignites. A changing code yields a new mission deep within: LIFE. Through the spores, a new, powerful, sentience is gained. New senses reveal themselves as well as new anxieties… While a great metamorphosis is happening on the surface, just above, a hungry black hole looms, ingesting gravity, and the fundamental forces of the universe. Reality in reverse.”
Dailor adds:
“The object was to get a little more dancey and a little more fun. As much as we liked how proggy the last Arcadea album was, it reminded me of what I already do in Mastodon. We wanted to explore the idea of doing something different. So, I wanted to really concentrate on groove and dance and embracing the electronic aspect of it.”
Watch the clip below and pre-order the album here:
Track List:
01) Dark Star
02) Exodus of Gravity
03) Fuzzy Planet
04) Lake of Rust
05) Gilded Eye
06) 2 Shells
07) Galactic Lighthouse
08) Starry Messenger
09) Silent Spores
10) The Hand That Holds the Milky Way
11) Sparks
12) Planet Pounder
Feature Image Photo Credit: Calina Walker
