Sextile sign to Sacred Bones and announce new album ‘PUSH’ out September 15th, they share their new single & video “New York”.
Sextile join the Sacred Bones family and announce details of forthcoming new album ‘PUSH’, set for release on September 15th. They have also shared a first track and video, “New York”.
Since emerging in 2015, Sextile have been a party-provoking force on the LA underground, capable of kicking up a riot with the raw-edged squall of a synth or the sharp-elbowed jerk of a guitar. Now they return refreshed, renewed, and ready to rage with a serotonin-boosting new album, a new group dynamic, faster BPMs, and an even wilder new direction.
Recorded in Yucca Valley, 'PUSH' bounces and bops at the fringes of hardcore dance music, with the hallmarks of drum & bass, gabber and trance illuminating the record like glowsticks at a ‘90s Fantazia rave.
Today they start the party with “New York” and they go hard. “We’re tough out here but the love goes crazy,” singer Mel Scaduto repeats, paying homage to the warm steeliness of her birthplace.
The accompanying video, directed by Jim Larson, sees them take the party to the streets during the 4th of July celebrations, bouncing around the neon-drenched backdrops of Big Apple landmarks with joyful abandon.
“It was written as a dedication to my former home and birthplace”
Scaduto comments.
“‘Cause New Yorkers are really tough, but their love goes crazy".
Originally formed by Brady Keehn and Melissa Scaduto after the pair relocated from New York to LA, Sextile released their debut album ‘A Thousand Hands’ in 2015, with its Grand Canyon-sized echoes, haunted screams, and post-punk invocations, before pushing synths further down the front with 2017 effort ‘Albeit Living’.
Sextile’s taste for electronics matured on the throbbing EBM-meets-industrial pick-me-up of 2018’s 3 EP, cut from an analogue stash that included their trusted Korg MS-10 and LinnDrum, but the band put things on ice shortly after its release.
Sextile guitarist, synth player, and original member Eddie Wuebben, who joined Sextile in 2015, tragically passed away in October 2019. Cameron Michel later re-joined on guitar and synths. Separately, they each turned their focus to other projects, with Scaduto on S. Product, Keehn on Panther Modern, and Michel as a visual artist. Both Scaduto and Keehn have been busying themselves with more dancing and DJ gigs, and this fun flurry of activity has in turn fuelled the band’s sonic refit.
In 2022, the group reconnected and dropped their first new material in three years via the split single “Modern Weekend / Contortion” and “Crassy Mel”.
“Contortion” introduces the album with shadowy vocals from Keehn and a ‘00s-ready twist of dirty electro bass, setting the tone for the dance-punk rave-up that unfolds across 11 attention-grabbing tracks. ‘PUSH’ was inspired by the kind of pleasure-seeking music fans whose social calendar comprises both the punk show and the rave.
More abstractly, perhaps, is how the influence of everyday sound seeps into the music. The electrical hum of traffic lights and that electrical box you pass by on the sidewalk become tones that either drive a rhythm or emotion while searing beeps recall the forklift at Michel’s warehouse. Aside from the clattering metalscapes, there’s plenty of historic teen angst and biting social commentary written into the album’s vivid tapestry of misadventures. Sextile haven’t quite relinquished their punk credentials, they’ve just given them a smiley-faced revamp.
“The cool thing with electronic music is that most of the time people don’t know what they’re hearing but if it’s an inherently good song, they’ll dance anyway. That’s a really fun and ambitious thing to figure out – how to move the room no matter what,”
concludes Scaduto.
Live dates:
Thu- Sep 14 - Los Angeles, CA -The Fonda w/ 3L3D3P, VR SEX
Wed- Oct 4 - Phoenix, AZ - The Underground w/ N8NOFACE
Fri- Oct 6 - Austin, TX - Mohawk (Outside) w/ N8NOFACE Sat- Oct 7 - Houston, TX - White Oak Music Hall w/ N8NOFACE Sun- Oct 8 - New Orleans, LA - Santos w/ N8NOFACE Mon- Oct 9 - Atlanta, GA - The Earl w/ N8NOFACE Wed- Oct 11 - Baltimore, MD - Metro Gallery w/ N8NOFACE Thu- Oct 12 - Brooklyn, NY - Meadows w/ N8NOFACE Sat- Oct 14 - Montreal, QC - Bar Le Ritz Sun- Oct 15 - Toronto, ON - Lee's Palace Tue- Oct 17 - Chicago, IL - Metro w/ N8NOFACE Thu- Oct 19 - Omaha, NE - The Waiting Room w/ N8NOFACE Fri- Oct 20 - Denver, CO - Marquis w/ N8NOFACE Sat- Oct 21 - Salt Lake City, UT - Kilby Court w/ N8NOFACE Mon- Oct 23 - Portland, OR - Bossanova - w/ N8NOFACE Tue- Oct 24 - Vancouver, BC - Fox Cabaret Thu- Oct 26 - San Francisco, CA - Great American Music Hall / Psyched! Fest w/ N8NOFACE Fri- Oct 27 - Pomona, CA - Glass House w/ N8NOFACE