Phoenician Drive announce new record and share new single ‘Glow’

The Brussels sextet Phoenician Drive, a mix of rock and traditional oriental music, returns with a resolutely more pop record, with new, brighter musical colors. With this new record, the Brussels collective looks back on their electric beginnings by giving more space to singing, recounting their doubts and personal stories, like an invitation to go through the painful trials of life in the joy of knowing that everything is constant transformation.

The track ‘Glow’ gave its name to the EP, it is based on a 6/8 rhythm which is the signature of North African music such as Gnawa or Chaâbi. On their first LP the group had already composed a 6/8 ('Slow Fish') in a rather dark, almost warlike musical color. With Glow, Phoenician Drive revisits this African pulse by moving towards something much more joyful and dancing, it's an invitation to let go of the reins and transform sadness into sub tropical rock'n roll. Indeed the piece tells the story of an impossible love and the pain that results from it, the voices sing together the same love tirade like a mantra to which we cling to keep moving forward, and the guitars respond without concession! “This song is also the allegory of the end of a bygone world, and of a transition to something unknown that calls us with its burning light. It is therefore also a song of hope, one that springs up in a moment of crisis without warning.” explains Valerian Meunier.

Preorder ‘Glow’ on transparent deep blue wax

Tracklisting

01. Pull The Tiger
02. Glow
03. Urban Sailors
04. Holy Security
05. Pull The Tiger (part. II)

Credits

Valerian Meunier : Guitar, vocals, key
Matthieu Peyraud : Bass, vocals, key
Gaspard Vanardois : Guitar, oud
Digo Moscoso : Percussions, key
Joaquin Garcia Bermudez : Guitar, saz, jaw harp
Jeremie Mossey : Drums

Recorded by Thomas Stadnicki
Mixed by Thomas Stadnicki
Mastered by Harris Newman
Artwork by Laurent Poisson