Bilders - Neverlasting LP + Apropos BOOK Option
Neverlasting LP! There is also a new Direen book, Apropos! Add that separately.
Release date: October 21st
Watch first video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G3j9YJrWxDc
Bilders new album, "Neverlasting" is a mix of psychic adventures, hard psychedelia and commentary with a bite. Bilders have always sung outliers with a heap of empathy—exploitation of migrants, unmitigated killing and the state of our depleted planet. This album maintains an analog feel with technical finesse as it casts a cold eye on uses and abuses of power in the higher echelons. It is pure Bilders. Surprise collaborations bring in fresh tangents of colour and emotional edge. “We are the Neverlasting renter-squatters of Earth exhausted”.
The band is once again the voice/guitar of Bill Direen, bass of Matt Swanson and near everything else by Alex McManus, with guesting by former Bilders. It’s the same lineup as last year’s acclaimed Dustbin of Empathy, and the first ‘core’ Bilders lineup to remain constant for more than one album. The new compatibility shows. It’s an album that builds on current strengths.
Notable guestings include Athens Georgia lights Claire Horne of 1980s BBQ Killers, and Curtiss Pernice, guitarist of heavy vanguard Porn Orchard, with a snook-in from experimental and electronic prince Todd Gerber. Two never-released tunes by vintage Bilders (Stu Page and Greig Bainbridge) sit perfectly with the new material. This is quite simply the strongest Bilders album ever.
Apropos Book
Bill Direen writes of music and musicians in cities and corner bars, small venues, rural shacks, after-parties and high-rises. This book contains over seventy photographs you won’t have seen anywhere else, and tributes to a huge range of gods, goddesses and plain mortals.
Apropos is Bill’s homage to performers, recording artists and road managers, small town geniuses and radio hosts. Apropos identifies and demonstrates what they have given us, and what they have inspired.
Some stars are found here, like Mark E. Smith, Shane MacGowan and Nico, but there are plenty of unknowns, loved locally for their one-hit bands and crazy talent. Add to that Direen’s take upon the semi-celebrateds, the rightful heroes of DIY and alternative production—Chris Knox, Peter Jefferies, David Kilgour, Bill Callahan, the Dead C.