The Dublin four-piece Melts announce their second album Field Theory is out on April 12th via Fuzz Club.
‘Figment’ is the first track from the record which is the followup to 2022’s Maelstrom, which was recorded live to tape in Black Mountain Studios and produced by Gilla Band’s Daniel Fox last summer.
The title takes the scientific term Field Theory, which describes how forces interact and influence particles around them, and applies it to the interactions between people, to the space between all of us, how people interact and affect others around them.
Of the album’s themes, MELTS Say:
“Like gravity we are drawn to and miss people and like light waves we love people and are loved. We live in orbits of each other, drawn by unseen forces. The album explores these forces, how we relate to each other, the people we live with and the people we live without. At the heart of Field Theory lies the realisation that we inhabit each other’s worlds as much as our own, through a field of wide-ranging forces, as important as the ones keeping the planets in place.”
“’Figment’ is about the relationship we have with the world around us, filtered through our own imagination, shaped and coloured by how the individual see’s the world. The difference between the concrete and imagined. The video for ‘Figment’ was shot by Irish filmmaker Andy Parkes and explores similar themes as the song – how the mind perceives the world subjectively based on key elements: time, emotion and distance from the person or event.”
UK and EU April tour dates are also announced today.
Melts Live Dates
24th Apr – Future Yard, Birkenhead, UK
25th Apr – The Hug & Pint, Glasgow, UK
26th Apr – YES, Manchester, UK
27th Apr – Hyde Park Book Club, Leeds, UK
28th Apr – The Bodega, Nottingham, UK
29th Apr – Rough Trade, Bristol, UK
30th Apr – Moth Club, London, UK
2nd May – AB Club, Brussels, BE
3rd May – Les Aralunaires, Arlon, BE,
4th May – Fuzz Club 2024, Eindhoven, NL
5th May – Cactus Café, Bruges, BE
Field Theory Artwork & Tracklist:
01 – Figment
02 – Waves Of Wonder
03 – Clouded
04 – WLDNG
05 – Shelter Of The Shade
06 – Main Sequence
07 – Altered
08 – The Never
09 – Softly Breathes
