Collect Call, aka Joseph Thorpe, is a Brighton-based electronica-guitar infused artist, a multi-instrumentalist, whose spectrum of synths create a textured tonality of ambient-trance, synth-pop, dance-pop and chillwave in a swirly new wave of dreampop. Along with the cinematic inserts and spacious interludes, Collect Call is an artist who paints his palette in a surge of streaming emotion, luminous introspection and wistful wanders to stargazing shores. Following his debut single, “Rain: Stop” in June 2020, and the follow up single “Pretense”, released in October 2020, Collect Call has released his new EP “The Golden Hour” on 12th January 2022.
Chase The Light is a cool breeze of drum and bass, whilst taking a trip-hop to the synth-pop pastures of dark wave. Through the piano-synths, prowling bassline, speckled synths and flipping beats, Chase The Light radiates a sunshine ambience that beams from the shadows of 90s rave, backbeat and alternative dance. It’s a track that draws from the retro influences from a golden-age of synth pop, whilst creating a contemporary sheen. Along with the tender lyrics and serene vocals, Chase The Light is an intermix of brooding sentiments and daydream optimism, dwelling in an Ibiza-mingled Island of oceanic emotion.
Simple reverberates from the dance-trance synths from an exotic place of sun-drenched synths and shuffle beats. Along with the tick-tock synths and jagged ambience, Simple lingers in the recesses of ambient–dance, whilst being drifted away from the dream-pop clouds of nu-gaze.
No Amount of Medicine, zig-zags and strobe lights under the dark-wave disco ball of synth-pop. It’s a space-pop exploration through the back doors of jangly-pop, whilst passing through the cracks of new-wave. Along with the cinematic inserts and cacophony of synths, No Amount of Medicine creates an atmospheric backdrop of dark-electronica that prowls and lingers in the shadows of Industrial-rock.
The Golden Hour is an ambient wave of synth-pop that drifts towards the shores of Baroque-rock. It’s a track that resonates from dusk to dawn and whose emotions cascade and ripple down the riverbanks of melodic rock.
Simple – (radio edit – judders, shudders and transmits its antennae with a shoegaze sheen, that reaches out to the satellite stations of synth-pop. Along with the raw lyrics and pristine vocals, Simple lays bare its soul, whilst wearing its heart on its sonic sleeve.
‘The Golden Hour’ is out now, available digitally across online stores and streaming platforms, including Apple Music, Spotify and Bandcamp.
TRACK LIST
- Chase The Light
- Simple
- No Amount of Medicine
- The Golden Hour
- Simple (radio edit)
CREDITS
Written, produced and mixed by Joseph Thorpe
Corin Robinson – additional engineering, mastering
Joseph Thorpe – vocals, keys, drums, guitar, bass, synths
Kianna Blue – piano, additional synthesizers, percussion, sound effects
Lawrie Pringle – bass on ‘No Amount of Medicine’
Andrew Stuart-Buttle – strings on ‘Simple’
‘The Golden Hour’ cover artwork by Ash Babb
Artist photos taken by Tan Le
Keep up with Collect Call
https://www.facebook.com/collectcallband
https://collectcall.bandcamp.com
https://www.instagram.com/collectcallband
https://twitter.com/CollectCalluk
https://soundcloud.com/collectthecall
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCud9b2kQT9EqfoO-4zqNGcQ/featured
https://music.apple.com/us/artist/collect-call/1444805471
https://open.spotify.com/artist/6V6ERaqpQZ8bLLmxInyBfg