Bauhaus Release First New Song in 14 Years ‘Drink the New Wine’
British post-punk pioneers Bauhaus return with their first new music in over a decade, “Drink the New Wine.” Recorded throughout lockdown, Bauhaus used the Surrealists’ “beautiful corpse” methodology to create the music, with every member developing with a bit with out seeing what the opposite’s had performed. The band arrange some extra guidelines: Every member…
British post-punk pioneers Bauhaus return with their first new music in over a decade, “Drink the New Wine.”
Recorded throughout lockdown, Bauhaus used the Surrealists’ “beautiful corpse” methodology to create the music, with every member developing with a bit with out seeing what the opposite’s had performed. The band arrange some extra guidelines: Every member was given just one minute to fill, and solely eight tracks to put down no matter instrumentals and vocals they needed; the band additionally allotted themselves a shared 60 seconds to create a composite on the finish.
In a press release, Bauhaus famous that they’ve used the “beautiful corpse” approach prior to now, and that the title of their new music, “Drink the New Wine,” takes its title from a phrase that got here out of the primary time Surrealist artists André Breton, Marcel Duchamp, Jacques Prévert, and Yves Tanguy mixed for a “Cadavre exquis“: “[It] included phrases which when strung collectively make up the sentence, ‘Le cadaver beautiful boar le vin nouveau’ (‘The beautiful corpse will drink the brand new wine’),” the band stated.
“Drink the New Wine” marks Bauhaus’ first bit of recent music because the launch of their 2008 album, Go Away White. Whereas the group disbanded earlier than they might tour in assist of that LP, Bauhaus reunited for a handful of exhibits in 2019. The band is ready to return to the street this Might, beginning with an look on the Merciless World Pageant, adopted by exhibits in Portland, Seattle, San Francisco, Denver, Arizona, and New York.
