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Ihr einzigartiger Mix aus Indie-Pop, Shoegaze und Krautrock entstand während der gemeinsamen WG-Zeit von Fred und Josh im nassen englischen Winter 2016 in der Küstenstadt Falmouth. Durch Zufall zog Fred während seines Auslandssemesters zu Josh. Mit minimalsten Recording-Mitteln entstanden hier innerhalb von zwei Wochen die größtenteils improvisierten Aufnahmen ihres ersten Albums ‚Speaking from a Distance‘, das 2017 auf Kleine Untergrund Schallplatten (KUS) veröffentlicht wurde und innerhalb kürzester Zeit ausverkauft war.
Es folgte eine EP und ein zweites Album bei KUS, sowie Singles und EPs bei Cloudberry Records (USA), Shiny Happy Records (Indonesien), Melotron Recordings (Griechenland) und KUS. Die nun vierköpfige Band, vervollständigt durch Hannes und Matt, tourte ausgedehnt in Europa und dem Vereinigten Königreich, mit Auftritten auf dem Indietracks-Festival und verschiedenen internationalen Popfesten wie in Madrid, Köln und Glasgow. Das nach Joshs Übersiedlung nach Augsburg entstandene dritte Album ‚Taking Pictures of Taking Pictures‘ erschien am 16. Februar 2024 auf Kleine Untergrund Schallplatten sowie Shelflife Records (USA) und wurde von der internationalen IndiePoP-Szene begeistert gefeiert.
Die darauffolgende Tour führte die Band durch ganz Deutschland und sogar bis nach Prag in Tschechien. Im Frühjahr 2025 werden The BV’s zusammen mit der österreichischen Band The New Mourning durch Süddeutschland und Österreich touren.
Press
“a superb mix of classic-sounding indiepop a la sarah records, dreampop, kraut and noise.“
rough trade
„the bv’s can essay winsome pop as if it had never been done before…“
chickfactor
„the bv’s hit the shoegaze/dream pop sweet spot…“
faster and louder
“…Ihre Songs perlen und pendeln funkelnd dahin, Schrammelgitarren und Schichten von
Melodien sowie hüpfende Percussions geben ihnen einen Anschein von Leichtigkeit, doch
stets schwebt eine leise Traurigkeit mit und hält zugleich viel Trost bereit.”
Visions März 24
“The BV’s play a gentle bittersweet guitar-pop that feels familiar in a resonant way for fans of
melancholic indie-pop. TpoTP is their third album, and they continue to refine their emotional
and musical approach…”
The Big Take-over, Issue No. 94
The New Mourning
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Thomas Pronai: Bass VI, Vocals
Georg Allacher: Guitar, Synths, Vocals
Michi Rieder: Guitar
Gerald Allacher: Drums
The New Mourning is the latest song-writing vehicle of musician and recording engineer Thomas Pronai. Pronai runs a (mostly) analogue studio in eastern Austria, set in the rural fringes of the Pannonian Steppe. In this idyllic setting he recorded a string of legendary acts from the Austrian music scene (Der Nino aus Wien, Ernst Molden, Ja, Panik just to name a few) in addition to his own band projects (Bo Candy & His Broken Hearts, Defoe & Pronai, Le Charmant Rouge,…).
The New Mourning sound is as simple as the songs. A stoic drum beat over a bare song, usually constructed around two chords, eschewing special effects or manipulation. But the defining feature of the band’s sound is in the way Pronai places most of the hook and melody lines on his Bass VI guitar, using the instrument much like a lead guitar.
The concept of The New Mourning began while touring Germany (2018) as drummer in Pete Astor’s band (The Weather Prophets, The Loft) alongside James Hoare (Veronica Falls, The Proper Ornaments) and Rose Keeler-Schäffeler (Keel Her, Tim Burgess). The experience of a real live band, playing simple, reduced rock ‘n’ roll songs without any frills and furbelows, inspired Pronai to recreate that very feeling on tape. Three months later he found himself in London laying the tracks for two new songs onto Hoare’s Studer 16-track tape machine for the band’s debut single (Who’d Stop The Sun, Kleine Untergrund Schallplatten KUS22, 7” vinyl).
Following their debut single, The New Mourning toured Germany, Austria and Switzerland, pausing only for two days to lay backing tracks for their first long player onto an eight-track tape recorder at Pronai’s studio.
The work on the album was completed in January 2020, but due to the pandemic When The Light Fades (Noise Appeal Records, noise123 LP) didn’t see the light of day until May 2022.
In January 2024 the band gathered once more in Pronai’s studio to start recording the second album. Two years of live shows have sharpened the sound. The Bass VI is ever more central to the sound, transforming The New Mourning into a three guitar band, creating a very unique “wall of guitars”.
The new recordings have a rougher sound than the debut album, with the ghost of 80s and 90s Indie music always floating through them. The voice is offered small loopholes between massive walls of guitars, which it fills sometimes whispering, sometimes singing delicately. One track (Meaningful Jam) even manages without any vocals at all.
And another novelty in the band structure: Georg Allacher takes centre stage as a songwriter and singer for the first time. With ‘Night of Green’, he contributes the most poppy song so far.
Echoes of Spacemen 3, Galaxie 500, Luna, The Velvet Underground, Can, Sonic Youth, The Brian Jonestown Massacre, The Proper Ornaments and others reverberate through the songs.
Songs of Confusion – inspired by Spacemen 3’s The Sound of Confusion – will be released January ’25 on Noise Appeal Records.
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Blumenstr. 7, 80331 München, Germany, Blumenstraße 7, 80331 München, Deutschland,Munich, Germany
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