Single Of The Day - "OutLaw Empire" by The Pull of Autumn featuring Mark Stewart & Adrian Sherwood

The Pull of Autumn is an art-rock, space-rock, ethereal rock, post-punk, new wave, neo-classical collective, whose multi-faceted music stretches across the spectrum of alternative rock. They are a collective that has comprised of British new wave band Fashion, Rhode Island’s Johanna’s House of Glamour, and Fred Abong, founding member of Belly with Tanya Donelly and early member of Throwing Muses with Kristin Hersh and Donelly. They are an interesting and intriguing act whose music time-travels, reinvents and redefines the many boundaries of Indie-rock. They are a collective whose music is an infinite burst of standalone sounds that celebrate the innovation of music and reunites to consolidate its power. Versatile and visceral, The Pull Of Autumn debuted their eponymous album in 2018, followed by “Afterglow” in 2019 and “Small Colors” in 2020, and whose latest single “OutLaw Empire”, sees them take a more retro-cool direction and continue their musical journey, merging past and present and creating a portal of ever-evolving electronica.

Released on 5th October 2022, OutLaw Empire sees The Pull Of Autumn join forces with Mark Stewart, best known for being a founding member of UK band The Pop Group and producer (and owner of owner of the famed On-U-Sound Records), Adrian Sherwood.

As a collaboration OutLaw Empire is testament to the collective’s diversity, free-flowing experimentation, that draws out the abstract exploration of transitional states, customised by the nuances and subconscious of spoken word. As a track, OutLaw Empire, will feature The Pull Of Autumn’s forthcoming album “Beautiful Broken World” (released 18th November 2022 via RBM Records) and has been selected as the Manc Review’s “Single Of The Day”.

OutLaw Empire is a subliminal improvisation of electronica, which drifts onto its sonic soapbox and forms a peaceful protest. It’s a mega-mix of ambient-pop, that drifts between the dimensions of dream-pop, neo-psychedelia in a foggy awakening of dub-dance. Like time-travelling back in time to the heyday of Acid-House, OutLaw Empire emits a sense of late 80s, 90s nostalgia, whilst floating down the contemporary corridors of clubland dance. A hypnotic track, Outlaw Empire trip-hops into the sax streams of sophisti-pop, whilst raving aside the horned synths of trance-dance. Just listening to the pulsating beats, chimed synths and fuzzy ambience makes you feel strangely elated and sedated, that lifts you on a higher plane of euphoric escapism. It’s timeless music, that hijacks your senses, holding you hostage in the basement of youthful hedonism.

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As of October 5th 2022, ‘Outlaw Empire’ will be available across online stores and streaming platforms like Apple Music and Spotify, as well as Bandcamp, where the “Beautiful Broken World’ album (slated for release on November 18th 2022) is already available for pre-order.

CREDITS
‘Outlaw Empire’ written by Mark Stewart & Nungun (Teache & Ryan Mahan)
Remixed by Adrian Stewart
Mark Stewart – Vocals
Daniel Darrow – Synths
Doug Wimbish – Bass
Album produced by Daniel Darrow
Mastered by Bruce Macleod
Album cover art by Joyce Raskin White