After a string of brilliant EPs, singles, live sessions, remixes, reimaginings and collaborations, Luo are finally set to release their debut album Sleep Spindles.

It’s been nearly exactly a year since Brighton-based electronic instrumental troop Luo released Ebb & Flow; a record that finally introduced Luo as a fully functioning live band. And whilst Josh Trinnaman (the super clever music guy behind Luo) has been producing incredible glitchy music under the Luo moniker for over 4 years, a full-length record has never materialised, until now that is. And we couldn’t be more excited.

Taken from their up-coming record Sleep Spindles, the band’s new track ‘Octopus’ highlights all that’s great about Luo. Downbeat, glitchy, complex, ambient and thoughtful; it’s a track that’s hard to pin down. And that’s what we love about it.

Luo
After a string of brilliant EPs, singles, live sessions, remixes, reimaginings and collaborations, Luo are finally set to release their debut album Sleep Spindles.

It’s been nearly exactly a year since Brighton-based electronic instrumental troop Luo released Ebb & Flow; a record that finally introduced Luo as a fully functioning live band. And whilst Josh Trinnaman (the super clever music guy behind Luo) has been producing incredible glitchy music under the Luo moniker for over 4 years, a full-length record has never materialised, until now that is. And we couldn’t be more excited.

Taken from their up-coming record Sleep Spindles, the band’s new track ‘Octopus’ highlights all that’s great about Luo. Downbeat, glitchy, complex, ambient and thoughtful; it’s a track that’s hard to pin down. And that’s what we love about it.

We recently spoke to Josh about the up-coming release and Sleep Spindles‘ live sound:

“This album’s the first time we’ve all contributed towards the writing and considered how to gel electronic music production with live instrumentation; not just musically but in terms of mixing. We took what the live aspects were adding to the overall sound, accounted for the space they were occupying and recorded it, basically.

The result is some sort of Electronic IDM Hip-Hop Folk Post-Rock Future weird Jazz Prog something. Hopefully we’ve managed to do this in a way that isn’t ham-fisted or gimmicky!”

Sleep Spindles is set for release via Brighton record label Small Pond Recordings on the 24th October 2016.

See Luo live this October:

16 – Manchester, Carefully Planned Festival
21 – Brighton, Sticky Mike’s Frog Bar
23 – Derby, The Hairy Dog
24 – Leeds, Belgrave Music Hall
26 – Canterbury, Bramley’s Bar