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CHILDREN COLLIDE
reveals new track
+ video turrets
+ fourth studio album
‘TIME ITSELF’ out today
+ touring November & December
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“Alongside Mackay’s magnetism, supple, mind-melting riffs and dank bass define the Children Collide sound. Bombastic but never vacuous, Time Itself glances sideways at Blur, The Beatles, The Stooges and Pond. We had seriously forgotten just how much we need Children Collide in our lives.” – STACK
“Children Collide erupts into a mountainous riff-laden fuzzy psychedelic trip laced with a wild caterwauling guitars and an air of barely contained excess and chaos. An utterly satisfying thumpingly cathartic ride with a sudden stop that leaves your senses reeling.” – BACKSEAT MAFIA
“…thick and crunchy like Cobain’s distortion pedal on a desert field trip with Kyuss, playing Sabbath covers.” – DOUBTFUL SOUNDS
“..long-time favourites of the Australian rock world.” – PILERATS
“..one of the most essential and urgent pop acts in contemporary Australian music.” – MUSIC JUNKEE
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The time is now. Nine years in the making, today, Children Collide releases their fourth studio album Time Itself via Spinning Top Records. Expect a complex and provocative rock record that explores wider spectrums and multitudes with the kind of fearlessness that put Children Collide on the map, to begin with. The LP arrives with the propulsive new track Turrets, alongside a visual accompaniment.
Turrets detonates with raw power, frenetic urgency and conveys the relentless energy from the Australian three-piece. Directed by Lord Fascinator and filmed by Nico White and Dave Meagher, the psychedelic official video for Turrets is the final in a trilogy made in the absence of touring.
“Turrets was first pulled together in a jam with Heath and Ryan at Pink Floyd’s old studio Brit Row with producer Youth during our first attempt at our second album Theory of Everything. Our label and management at the time convinced us to scrap it much to my chagrin. After the jam I sat upstairs and wrote some of my favourite lyrics but I’m not sure I could tell you what the fuck I’m on about as a whole. It’s just 20 mini stream-of-consciousness philosophies like ‘Sailing down the river Nihilism’ and ‘Turrets are where it’s at.’ Sometimes the meaning comes later I guess,” says frontman Johnny Mackay of the track.
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Recorded by Loren Humphrey at Diamond Mine & Stockholm Syndrome in New York City, ‘Time Itself’ is Children Collide’s long-awaited fourth studio album. The album features the snarling, Nirvana-esque Return to Femmes, the fuzzed-out charge of opener Man of the People and the twirling, acid-tinged Trampoline to contend with – the latter of which Mackay proudly describes as “one of my favourite songs I’ve ever written”. The sprawling six-and-a-half-minute wig-out of Mind Spider too serves as a strange bedfellow to the bouncy, mosh-ready Uh Oh – and yet, all of them make perfect sense as Children Collide songs. Time Itself is available now in digital formats as well as limited edition white 12” vinyl here.
Versatility and musical freedom has always served as the band’s modus operandi. It’s why Mackay loved playing with them in the first place, and why he eventually wound up under the moniker again. “Children Collide albums always feel like 12 points of a clock or a compass,” he says. “More an entire 360 degree entity than a single story. Exploration in all directions.”
Following the release, the Australian three-piece will take their epic and frenzied live show on the road on a national 13-date headline tour in November and December.
With their rocketship packed and a new line-up locked in, the voyage of Children Collide has launched.
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About Children Collide
A live phenomenon, Children Collide have played sets at SXSW, The Great Escape, Splendour in the Grass, Falls Festival, Groovin The Moo, Yours and Owls and the Big Day Out. They’ve performed countless sold-out headline shows across the nation in addition to dates in London, Paris, LA, New York and Tokyo.
‘Time Itself ‘ will follow the twice ARIA-nominated band’s third studio album Monument, released in 2012. It was another enduringly popular LP, following 2008‘s The Long Now and 2010’s Theory Of Everything, which debuted at #5 on the ARIA album chart and claimed the triple j feature album. Their repertoire includes some of the most well-loved Australian singles of the past decade, a roll call that includes Social Currency, Skeleton Dance, Chosen Armies, Loveless and triple j hottest 100 entries Farewell Rocketship, Jellylegs and My Eagle.
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CHILDREN COLLIDE
Tour Dates
Tickets on sale now
Friday 19 November – Jive, Adelaide SA
Saturday 20 November – Lynott’s Lounge, Perth WA
Sunday 21 November – Mojos, Fremantle WA
Thursday 25 November – Sooki Lounge, Belgrave VIC
Friday 26 November – Howler, Melbourne VIC
Saturday 27 November – The Eastern, Ballarat VIC
Wednesday 1 December – La La La’s, Wollongong NSW (Sold Out)
Thursday 2 December – Oxford Art Factory, Sydney NSW
Friday 3 December – Kambri, Canberra ACT
Saturday 4 December – The Newy, Newcastle NSW
Thursday 9 December – The Zoo, Brisbane QLD
Friday 10 December – Eleven Dive Bar, Maroochydore QLD
Saturday 11 December – Studio 56 @ Miami Marketta, Gold Coast QLD
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New track – Turrets – OUT NOW
New single – Man of the People – OUT NOW
New album – Time Itself – OUT NOW
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