NEW ALBUM RELEASED

Yep, it’s time for another dose of your favourite electronic music outfit, Easter Islanders. 

Entitled ‘The Hall Effect,’ this time we have no less than twelve tracks, two more than the standard ten, although two songs have been previously released as singles (The bouncy chip-tune ‘Factory Worker’ and the elegantly melodic ‘The King of Blind Gill’).

We kick off with the short, jaunty ‘High Five Dogs,’ which is actually a techno remake of a rock song from some fifteen years ago entitled ‘Lo-Fi Gods’ - see what I did with the title there, peeps?

The rest of the album contains the usual mixture of melodic but groovy electronic pieces, this time rather less industrial and experimental or ambient than previous albums. 

In addition there are no less than three guitar-based songs without even the whiff of a synth between them. One of these, the short, pretty ‘Conrad’s Comrades,’ explores finger-picking in an open D tuning. Another, ‘Chasing Marvels in a Shadow Garden,’ is an exercise in the John Lennon idea of spontaneity he espoused with his single ‘Instant Karma’ - write the song in the morning, record it in the afternoon and release it in the evening! My effort here is a short punk rock blast serving as a palate-cleanser and wake-up call.

The final rock track is a ‘real’ song, entitled ‘When the Afternoon is Brightest’ and actually features a vocal from yours truly, albeit mumbled and purposefully way back in the mix.

You cheap bastards can listen to the album for free here, otherwise you should try the Spotify and Apple Music links below.

Incidentally, the title has nothing to do with halls, despite the artwork. As with all of my albums, it’s taken from cosmology or some related scientific field. Wikipedia summarises it thusly:

“The Hall effect is the production of a potential difference (the Hall voltage) across an electrical conductor that is transverse to an electric current in the conductor and to an applied magnetic fieldperpendicular to the current. It was discovered by Edwin Hall in 1879.”

So now you know. 

Also, rather annoyingly, I’ve just discovered that there is a Colombian alternative rock band using this name. I hope I don’t end up getting an eponymous neck-tie from disgruntled fans, if you know what I mean…