The Leaving Release Debut Album 'Ultimate Buzz'
The Leaving today release their eagerly anticipated debut album, Ultimate Buzz here, available digitally and on vinyl via Avenue A / Futures ✦ / Virgin Records. Alongside the record, they release a new single, album highlight "Atmosphere" here.
The Leaving is a new band formed by Martin Doherty and Jonny Scott, longtime friends, collaborators and LA-based expats of the Glaswegian music scene as multi-instrumentalists, songwriters and producers with CHVRCHES, The Twilight Sad, Aerogramme, Mogwai and Idlewild, amongst others.
The first songs on Ultimate Buzz began life as the record of Doherty's "grief journey and touring through every dysfunction," in the wake of a traumatic period of life, death and tragedy: "Overwhelming sadness after sadness. Mental test after mental test."
When Doherty brought Scott into the music-making process, it suddenly began to make sense, and the Leaving quickly formed as a real and present force. "We got in the studio and it was electric," says Doherty. "So much so that we didn't leave for three months, writing every day. Eventually, I showed Jonny the music I'd been working on by myself and, suddenly, it all made sense. We began working on that material and he elevated it, as he always does. We sat those songs next to the new ones we had written and everything pulled into focus for the first time. There was a very clear, creative through line.
Fully written and produced by Doherty and Scott, and recorded at recorded at Neuromancer Recording and Lucy's Meat Market, Ultimate Buzz finds the duo staring straight into grief and coming back changed. It's about lives being rebuilt through friendship, and electrified by an instinctive alchemy that comes from a decades-long kinship and connection.
The album features nine songs, including the previously released songs "Saved" - described as a "futuristic anthem" by Stereogum; the "electronic pop with a gripping sense of emotion" Clash of "Pray;" and the "euphoric, electronic" (NME) "Fluoxetine," which wrestles with belief, loss, and the desperate desire to absorb someone else's pain.
The Leaving - Ultimate Buzz - tracklisting:
1. Atmosphere
2. Fluoxetine
3. Pray
4. Speak
5. Sing
6. Saved
7. Cursed
8. Creatures
9. Ddust
Photo credit: Alex Justice
The Leaving is a new band formed by Martin Doherty and Jonny Scott, longtime friends, collaborators and LA-based expats of the Glaswegian music scene as multi-instrumentalists, songwriters and producers with CHVRCHES, The Twilight Sad, Aerogramme, Mogwai and Idlewild, amongst others.
The first songs on Ultimate Buzz began life as the record of Doherty's "grief journey and touring through every dysfunction," in the wake of a traumatic period of life, death and tragedy: "Overwhelming sadness after sadness. Mental test after mental test."
When Doherty brought Scott into the music-making process, it suddenly began to make sense, and the Leaving quickly formed as a real and present force. "We got in the studio and it was electric," says Doherty. "So much so that we didn't leave for three months, writing every day. Eventually, I showed Jonny the music I'd been working on by myself and, suddenly, it all made sense. We began working on that material and he elevated it, as he always does. We sat those songs next to the new ones we had written and everything pulled into focus for the first time. There was a very clear, creative through line.
Fully written and produced by Doherty and Scott, and recorded at recorded at Neuromancer Recording and Lucy's Meat Market, Ultimate Buzz finds the duo staring straight into grief and coming back changed. It's about lives being rebuilt through friendship, and electrified by an instinctive alchemy that comes from a decades-long kinship and connection.
The album features nine songs, including the previously released songs "Saved" - described as a "futuristic anthem" by Stereogum; the "electronic pop with a gripping sense of emotion" Clash of "Pray;" and the "euphoric, electronic" (NME) "Fluoxetine," which wrestles with belief, loss, and the desperate desire to absorb someone else's pain.
The Leaving - Ultimate Buzz - tracklisting:
1. Atmosphere
2. Fluoxetine
3. Pray
4. Speak
5. Sing
6. Saved
7. Cursed
8. Creatures
9. Ddust
Photo credit: Alex Justice
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