My New Band Believe today share two remixes of ‘Numerology’, the first by 96 Back and Jennifer Walton and a second by Proc Fiskal. These mixes will be released on a limited edition 12” available to buy exclusively at My New Band Believe tour dates. Listen now.
Already featuring in The Fader, Pitchfork, The Guardian, Clash, Time Out & NME’s ‘Album Of The Year So Far’ lists, My New Band Believe’s eponymous boundary pushing debut album continues to win plaudits. The group are currently touring until early November, with further dates internationally to follow.
As the bassist and sometime frontman of black midi, Picton and his bandmates practiced an explosive form of musical world-building, weaving complex story-telling through thrilling passages of controlled chaos. When the group called it quits in 2023, the artist didn’t immediately feel like making a solo record or jumping back into another band. It was from this position of a not-quite team player, not-quite bandleader that Picton entered the studio and the seeds of My New Band Believe gradually began to emerge.
The group’s debut is a massive and hallucinatory record. It is a collection of music that swerves through wildly different emotional and thematic registers, all the while unraveling an endlessly compelling thread of dream logic. Picton is an unreliable but charismatic narrator and together with a cast of all-star players including Kiran Leonard, Caius Williams, Steve Noble, Andrew Cheetham, he not only comes into his own as a bandleader but arranges conflicting, fragmentary, and hysterical ideas until they form a brilliant new kind of sense.
My New Band Believe
Numerology Remixes
https://mynewbandbelieve.ffm.to/numerology
12″ tracklisting:
A1. Numerology
B1. Numerology (96 Back & Jennifer Walton Remix)
B2. Numerology (Proc Fiskal Remix)
Praise for My New Band Believe
“On the surface former black midi bassist Cameron Picton doesn’t carry over much from his old group to My New Band Believe – a name that apparently appeared to him in a delirious fever dream. MNBB’s self-titled debut replaces skronking prog-noise-punk with tumbling loops of acoustic guitar, swooning strings and pastoral elegance (with help from arty rock octet caroline). Really wrap your ears around My New Band Believe, however, and you’ll discover Picton’s same penchant for meticulously knotty songwriting and epic maximalism. It’s a record to tuck into the details, sidle up to the characters, let yourself wallow in its billowing strums and luscious layers. The most luxurious indie rock album of the decade so far.” – Time Out – 14 best Albums of the Year So Far:
“My New Band Believe’s self-titled debut comes from the mind of black midi’s former bassist Cameron Picton, specifically his headspace, mid-fever dream in the midst of a tour in China. The project is almost entirely acoustic, featuring 118 string instruments, a village full of musicians and truly meticulous formulation – it is an epic. This album is not a story of what might have been but never was; it is a picturesque view of what happens when a monumental level of care and attention is put into a project. It is a wonderfully constructed success.” – Clash Magazine – 60 Best of the year so far
“My New Band Believe is better than all of the black midi albums…bursting with ambition and strange, slanted, finger-plucked folktales. I can’t articulate yet what it means to sit with songs like these, songs that occupy whole worlds I had no idea about.” – Paste
“He is one of the most crucial voices in Indie Rock today…It’s just plain stunning” – Best New Music 8.4 Pitchfork
“A staggering, sprawling masterpiece from the mind of Cameron Picton” – 5/5 NME
“Mr. Picton’s playful spirit renders the complexity approachable” – The Wall Street Journal
“beautiful ideas burst from ex-Black Midi man’s lovable debut album” – 4/5 Album Of The Week, The Guardian
“Pop symphonies of love and hate” – 9/10 UNCUT
“A postmodern kaleidoscope” – 4.5/5 DIY
“A wonderfully constructed success” – 9/10 Clash
“Picton lets his imagination off the leash and his songs take some unravelling, they are structurally sound and melodically adventurous” – The Wire
“As vital, strange and imaginative as anything he produced with his old group… …now that the spotlight is fully on him, he is thriving like never before. Believe.” – Loud & Quiet
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