Dublin’s Melts are following up their 2022 debut, Maelstrom, with a new album, Field Theory, that will be out April 12 via Fuzz Club. It was recorded live to tape in Black Mountain Studios in summer 2023, and like their debut it was produced by Gilla Band’s Daniel Fox.
“Like gravity we are drawn to and miss people and like light waves we love people and are loved,” Melts say of the new album. “We live in orbits of each other, drawn by unseen forces. The album explores these forces, how we relate to each other, the people we live with and the people we live without. At the heart of Field Theory lies the realisation that we inhabit each other’s worlds as much as our own, through a field of wide-ranging forces, as important as the ones keeping the planets in place.”
The first single from Field Theory is “Figment,” which takes Melts’ signature synth-bass and puts it against a crashing shuffle beat, moving the needle just a little from goth into rave territory. Say the band: “Figment is about the relationship we have with the world around us, filtered through our own imagination, shaped and coloured by how the individual sees the world. The difference between the concrete and imagined.” You can watch the video, directed by Irish filmmaker Andy Parkes, below.
Melts have UK/EU tour dates ahead and those are listed below.
Field Theory:
01 – Figment
02 – Waves Of Wonder
03 – Clouded
04 – WLDNG
05 – Shelter Of The Shade
06 – Main Sequence
07 – Altered
08 – The Never
09 – Softly Breathes
MELTS – 2024 Live Dates
24th Apr – Future Yard, Birkenhead
25th Apr – The Hug & Pint, Glasgow
26th Apr – YES, Manchester
27th Apr – Hyde Park Book Club, Leeds
28th Apr – The Bodega, Nottingham
29th Apr – Rough Trade, Bristol
30th Apr – Moth Club, London
2nd May – AB Club, Brussels, BE
3rd May – Les Aralunaires, Arlon, BE,
4th May – Fuzz Club 2024, Eindhoven, NL
5th May – Cactus Café, Bruges, BE
