And So I Watch You From Afar announce new album Megafauna
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Northern Ireland instrumental post-rock quartet And So I Watch You From Afar have announced they will release their seventh full-length album, Megafauna, through Berlin’s Pelagic Records on August 9.
The new album serves as an homage to both Portrush on the Irish North Coast and Northern Ireland capital Belfast; the two places the band refer to as home. ASIWFA have also shared the first single from the album, Do Mór (audio), which has been described as a "playful collision of light-hearted guitar hooks, effortless jazz syncopation and the triumphant return of ASIWYFA’s inimitable wall-of-sound distortion."
"Megafauna is essentially a distilled moniker for our peers; all of the friends and characters that we’ve grown up with who’ve made us and our homes what they are today," explains guitarist Rory Friers. "Lockdown was an intensely introspective and reflective process, which put the comfort of community at the forefront of our minds throughout the writing process."
‘Megafauna’ is the band’s first new music since 2022’s critically-acclaimed ‘Jettison’, an ambitious multi-media ensemble piece packed full of experimentation and collaboration. Jokingly referring to ‘Jettison’ as the band’s “mature record”, guitarist Niall Kennedy frames the writing of ‘Megafauna’ around the band’s long-running mantra of ‘DO THE SCARY THING’ which sees them constantly hurtling towards newness, towards progress, evolution and the unknown. Whilst the new record is ASIWYFA taking on a more familiar, traditional form; in this post-’Jettison’, post-pandemic world ‘Megafauna’ is a deafening and defiant statement of intent from the band’s propulsive core – a clarion call for the communities that shape them, a resplendent celebration of togetherness over separation.
And So I Watch You From Afar will appear at Pelagic Fest, a two-day festival at the Muziekgieterij venue in Maastricht, Netherlands, on August 24 and 25, 2024 to celebrate the label's 15th anniversary.
The quartet have also announced live dates for December.
1. North Coast Megafauna
2. Do Mór
3. Gallery of Honour
4. Mother Belfast (Part 1)
5. Mother Belfast (Part 2)
6. Years Ago
7. Any Joy
8. Button Days
9. Me and Dunbar
