FOREVR RELEASE DUAL ALBUM; "CLASSICS" AND "DEATH IS A MIRACLE"
Brisbane’s FOREVR are stoked to today release not just their debut album – but two of them. Classicsand Death is a miracle, two complimentary full-length albums with two very different sounds, see the four-piece deeply evolve their shoegaze-pop roots (Classics), and document their exploration into dance music (Death is a miracle).
Classics, which features lead single ‘Columbus’, is a culmination of whole-band written material which sits closest to their shoegaze roots, however can hardly be called shoegaze anymore. There are layers of electronic production and unique glitchiness present – the band have evolved towards the clarity rather than haze, and found their place within tracks like ’Floodlight’, ‘True’ and album closer ‘Chandelier’.
Death is a miracle started with arpeggiator sketches and piano chords, and grew with influences from 90s techno, early 2000s pop and R&B to produce full scale dance music that is at once soundtrack to your blurry nights and Sunday recovery. Both albums’ themes include artificial intelligence (‘Hologram’), sibling relationships, death of idols (‘On a Wire’), the Voluntary Human Extinction Movement and natural disaster.
Formed initially by Donovan Miller and Sam George-Allen as a duo in 2014, FOREVR released the Demonstration EP (2014) and Shoegazer 7” (2015) before calling in Thomas Roche (who played with Miller in Roku Music) and Kate Mackenzie (Martyr Privates) to join forces. Their first release as a four-piece ‘Petrichor’ (Single, 2016) had spins on triple j, Double J and Unearthed, an inclusion in Home & Hosed’s ‘Top 5 Songs of the Week’, glowing write-ups on Weirdo Wasteland, Who The Hell and Sounds Better with Reverb, and let to support slots with PVT and Explosions in the Sky earlier this year.
FOREVR are Donovan Miller (guitar/programming), Sam George-Allen (vocals/synth), Thomas Roche (drums/programming) and Kate Mackenzie (bass).
