‘Creon I’ is the thrilling new single from Voka Gentle, and marks the return of one of the most exciting bands in the UK. Since their acclaimed second album ‘WRITHING!’, the trio (William J Stokes, Ellie Mason and Imogen Mason) have been busy honing their collective craft, now emerging with an evolved confidence and creative curiosity that explains why they are held in such high esteem by both their musical peers and legends of their genre (Wayne Coyne, Bombay Bicycle Club’s Jack Steadman, Animal Collective’s Panda Bear, Spacemen 3’s Sonic Boom, to name just a few).
Whilst lyrically ‘Creon I’ draws from the most famous of the Greek Tragedy plays, musically, it is a strikingly modern statement. Following its epic, cinematic opening the single thunders into a heavy metal beat, given a tribalist electronic slant by the trio, sonically echoing the lyrics’ giddying themes of power, fate and freewill, as the band explain
“We built an industrial rhythm for the coronation speech, but soon the egotistical stream of consciousness took over, along with several sounds we can't recall how we made. The lyrical and sonic frenzy braid together. Then Imogen went berserk on an Analogue Solutions Leipzig V3 synthesiser. The band is still bitterly divided on whether it's a gloat to Oedipus or questioning the punishment when Creon asks, “What d'you do that for?”
An emphatic reintroduction to the world of Voka Gentle, ‘Creon I’ was produced and engineered by the band and mixed by Sam Petts-Davies (Thom Yorke, The Smile, Marika Hackman, Warpaint). It is the first taste of a new body of work from the band, due for release later this year by their new label, state51.
‘Creon I’ is the thrilling new single from Voka Gentle, and marks the return of one of the most exciting bands in the UK. Since their acclaimed second album ‘WRITHING!’, the trio (William J Stokes, Ellie Mason and Imogen Mason) have been busy honing their collective craft, now emerging with an evolved confidence and creative curiosity that explains why they are held in such high esteem by both their musical peers and legends of their genre (Wayne Coyne, Bombay Bicycle Club’s Jack Steadman, Animal Collective’s Panda Bear, Spacemen 3’s Sonic Boom, to name just a few).
Whilst lyrically ‘Creon I’ draws from the most famous of the Greek Tragedy plays, musically, it is a strikingly modern statement. Following its epic, cinematic opening the single thunders into a heavy metal beat, given a tribalist electronic slant by the trio, sonically echoing the lyrics’ giddying themes of power, fate and freewill, as the band explain
“We built an industrial rhythm for the coronation speech, but soon the egotistical stream of consciousness took over, along with several sounds we can't recall how we made. The lyrical and sonic frenzy braid together. Then Imogen went berserk on an Analogue Solutions Leipzig V3 synthesiser. The band is still bitterly divided on whether it's a gloat to Oedipus or questioning the punishment when Creon asks, “What d'you do that for?”
An emphatic reintroduction to the world of Voka Gentle, ‘Creon I’ was produced and engineered by the band and mixed by Sam Petts-Davies (Thom Yorke, The Smile, Marika Hackman, Warpaint). It is the first taste of a new body of work from the band, due for release later this year by their new label, state51.
