Quade

Quade are Barney Matthews (Bass, Vocals), Matt Higgins (hardware), Tom Connolly (Violin/Guitar)and Leo Fini (Drums), four musicians from Bristol. The band half-jokingly refer to their music as “doomer sad-boy, ambient dub, folk, experimental post-rock”. They’re about to release their second album for AD 93, The Foel Tower which is released April 18th. They have worked again with Bristol natives Jack Ogborne (Bingo Fury, Naima Bock) as producer and Larry “Bruce” McCarthy (Mixer). The album was recorded at Nannerth Ganol studios in Mid Wales, the titular Foel Tower a landmark of the region. There is a duality to the sound of The Foel Tower, intimate as well as powerful, as detailed and textured as it is wide open and spacious.

For their Sophomore album, The Foel Tower, Quade holed up in an old stone barn in the cradle of a Welsh mountain valley.

What makes The Foel Tower such an incredible record is that it feels born of a time, place and situation that only existed in that very moment. It’s a snapshot of those 10 days spent in rural Wales and all the feelings and anxieties the band were experiencing at that specific time, magically caught on tape. “The album very much feels tied to this valley for us and the conversations and experiences we shared there,” they say. “It brings up a great deal of poignancy for us, an emblem of some fleeting respite from the strains we all have to experience. But there’s also deep sadness knowing how transient these moments are – in fact, there’s just a great deal of sadness in this album. But it’s also a record that while personal, resigned, and emotionally burdened, is ultimately hopeful.”