The single is available on their Bandcamp page.
Canada's foremost post-punk cum shoegaze outfit The City Gates present their latest single 'Siegfired 1969'. The single is taken from their new album, due for release in the autumn on their own imprint Velouria Recordz.
The Cure's Gothic guitars get taken to dank landscapes not even they knew existed on this tale of art in East Germany. The track collaborates with Alexander Donat (Vlimmer, Whole & Fir Cone Children) and Francis Nothingwater (La Mecanique). Donat's grandfather was a famous pianist during the cold war era and it is he who is being compared to the Berlin Wall during this colossal noise stomp.
Despite their Canadian roots and German origins, at points, the warped thrust of Middleton's The Chameleons cut through its industrial power. The closing stages ignite into a brooding Depeche Mode via White Lies fire cracker that is simply undeniable; an astonishing force of pleasure.
If only all collaborations were like this.
*Image courtesy of Renee Coutlee
