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Cleareye Shining

by Bitumen

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about

Cleareye Shining is the much anticipated sophomore album from Melbourne industrial postpunk outfit Bitumen. This new album sees the four-piece building on the primitive industrial post-punk of their 2018 debut LP Discipline Reaction (Vacant Valley), broadening their sound further into electronic and synth-based, gothic pop realms. Cutting guitars and stabbing bass remain – as does the dynamic intensity of Discipline Reaction – but now fused with new influences to create an album of diverse, direct and intricately-wrought songs.

Guitars, synths, samples, and electronic drums coalesce with the distinct and incendiary vocals of extraordinary frontwoman Kate Binning, whose lyrics weave stories set across ancient times, the modern world and futurist dystopian possibilities. Sometimes romantic, melancholy or full of rage.

Known for their intense live performances, Bitumen have played alongside the likes of Lydia Lunch, Peter Murphy, The Chameleons and Drab Majesty among many others.

While performing was off the agenda throughout 2020, the band leaned in to producing a finely-detailed studio album, experimenting more heavily with electronic instrumentation, layered vocals, and house and breakbeat-inspired percussion. Cutting guitars and stabbing bass remain – as does the dynamic intensity of Discipline Reaction – but now fused with a new palette to create an album of diverse, direct and intricately-wrought songs.

The resulting album evokes nostalgia, all the while carving something entirely new and singularly exciting. It’s a stone-cold killer record.

“​​With Cleareye Shining Bitumen have created a true work of art that is entirely their own. It furthers the canons of industrial, post-punk & electronica into bold new territory both beautifully refined and exhilaratingly unnerving.” Dominique Furphy 4ZZZfm

“(Cleayeye Shining) Summons the Spirit of Dreamy Early 90s Alt Rock…sounds like that sweet spot in post-punk and goth-tinged alternative rock that you will find from bands like Curve and Medicine.”
Alice Teeple Post-punk.com

GENRE: POST-PUNK, SYNTH-PUNK, SYNTH-POP, DARKWAVE, GOTHIC, ELECTRONIC ROCK, INDUSTRIAL, ALTERNATIVE

RIYL: SIOUXSIE & THE BANSHEES, BOY HARSHER, KILLING JOKE, CURVE, MEDICINE, DEPECHE MODE, DRAB MAJESTY, MOLCHAT DOMA, SEXTILE, MALARIA!, RIKI, PATRIARCHY


Released as part of the Flash Forward Series for Heavy Machinery Records (heavymachineryrecords.bandcamp.com)

It Records are pleased to be distributing this title for the international market and releasing the CD version of the album. For 180g vinyl version out on Heavy Machinery Records, Head to: bitumenbitumen.bandcamp.com

credits

released November 26, 2021

all songs written + performed by bitumen:

kate binning
bryce maher
simon maisch
sam varney

recorded by simon maisch at a private studio brunswick + the aviary abbotsford
mixed by mike deslandes
additional vocal production by charlie saint-alan
additional drum production by alex akers
mastered by david walker at stepford audio melbourne
series curated + produced by miles brown
project coordination by naretha williams
cover concept by kate binning
front + back photography by emily herbert + sam varney
inner photography by nicole reed
bitumen logo by peter bramley
design layout + typography by maximillian e s-strewe
design production by luke fraser at grin creative

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