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Koreless to release long-awaited debut album in July

By | Published on Thursday 27 May 2021

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Koreless has announced that he will release his debut album, ‘Agor’, in July. Out now is new single ‘Joy Squad’, a track he describes as an attempt to “build a club rollercoaster that swallows you up and spits you out”.

The album has been a long time coming – it’s a decade since his first single release – and ‘Agor’ itself was created over the course of five years.

“I work very quickly actually”, he insists. “But I’m also very thorough, and find it hard to leave stones unturned. Some of the tracks on this album have been through hundreds of iterations. Getting from the start to the end of the track is such a twisted journey for me. I’m talking about spending fifteen hours a day, seven days a week over a period of years”.

That focus on leaving no stone unturned eventually became a problem. Running the same plug-in on a sound 500 times to see what would happen next is not conducive to finishing a project.

“I realised the depth of what I was doing was fractal”, he says. “There was no actual end to the record in sight. I was obsessed with structure and song as well as texture – they had to be right, of course – but once I had the song, that was when the real trouble began”.

“I would focus on one tiny detail for a day. I would bounce that one element out into a new session and process it a thousand different ways – sometimes literally – having to then judge which the best iteration of that sliver of sound was. Then I would reintroduce that one detail back in and judge how that would then affect everything else. It was quite recursive. The piece would feed back on itself in quite a cybernetic way. But it could have gone on forever”.

The eventual catalyst for finishing the album came during a break from recording, he explains: “I found a Quora post written by a metalhead describing the best way to structure an album. So I tried his suggestion and I was like, ‘Yeah, it feels really good’. The record didn’t feel finished until I did that”.

‘Agor’ will finally make its way out into the world through Young on 9 Jul. Listen to ‘Joy Squad’ here:



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