Civil Civic Share New Track 'The Mirror'; New Album Out Today

Experimental Melbourne-spawned duo, CIVIL CIVIC have shared 'THE MIRROR'. The second track to be revealed from their forthcoming second album, THE TEST, due for release October 14 via Gross Domestic Product.

"THE MIRROR is both chilly and cosmic," explains bassist Benjamin Green. "There are glassy synth arpeggios, but the Cindy Lauper beat and the fuzz bass end up getting voted King and Queen of the prom and everyone cries, before a hysterical, slow-burning noise volcano erupts and chaos ensues. It's perfectly alarming."

The new album, THE TEST is a sound mirror held up to the soul, reflecting back both the beauty and ugliness. It is, guitarist Aaron Cupples explains, "an emotional rollercoaster, with all the teeth-grinding joy and unbridled fear that can be experienced by a self-aware lump of meat flying through space." It is, he elaborates, "a systematic dance inquiry into the epicentre of the human psyche."

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New album THE TEST due October 14th via Gross domestic Product

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Australians in European exile, Aaron Cupples and Benjamin Green's debut album Rules was a cerebral soundtrack to the best party on the planet. Based between London and Barcelona respectively, CIVIL CIVIC are a soundtrack band, but instead of scoring films, it is the human experience for which they are creating music. We could bandy certain genre-tags around at this point - futurist prog, epic math-rock, electro-goth, post-rock, glacier-sized chillwave - but none squarely hit the mark. Let's just note that CIVIL CIVIC's architecture is comprised of serotonin-drenched soundscapes, synth arpeggios, digital crescendos and deep bass troughs. It is post-punk rendered with a classicist's touch; perhaps 'post-everything' might be a better description. And while in their sound surely lays the spirit of artists such as The Cure, Goblin, My Bloody Valentine, Battles, Bauhaus, Lightning Bolt and f Buttons, CIVIL CIVIC are on their own journey.

Concocted from the intrinsic production skills of Aaron Cupples, (who has produced, mixed and engineered artists including The Vaccines, Miles Kane, Broken Social Scene, Dominique Young Unique, Blanck Mass, Spiritualized etc.) and Benjamin Green (whose previous musical endeavours have seen tours with the likes of Fugazi, and gigs shared with White Stripes and Queens of the Stone Age) CIVIL CIVIC have spent the last four years honing their special recipe of colourful, genre-defying instrumentals, including raising 176% of their Indiegogo campaign goal to fund THE TEST's creation.

Pre-order THE TEST here https://civilcivic.lnk.to/TheTest via Gross Domestic Product through Believe Digital. CIVIL CIVIC will tour Europe from October through to November, closing with a London show at The Victoria, Dalston on November 26.

October
22 FR Rouen - Le 106
25 BE Brussels - Magasin 4
26 DE Köln - Genau im Gebaude
27 DE Hamburg - Hafenklang
28 DE Berlin - Urban Spree
29 DE Dresden - Ostpol
30 DE Leipzig - Ilses Erika
31 DE Bamberg - Alte Selerei

November
1 DE Esslingen am Neckar - Komma
2 DE Ulm - Kradhalle
3 CH Lucerne - Schüür
4 CH Baden - Royal
5 FR Besançon - Passagers du Zinc
6 CH Lausanne - Le Romandie
9 IT Savona - Raindogs House
10 IT Carpi - Mattatoio
12 IT Roma - Monk w/ Gold Panda
13 IT Piazzola sul Brentra - Shokando Festival
15 FR Lyon - Le Sonic
18 FR Metz - Musiques Volantes
19 FR La Roche sur Yon - Fuzz Yon
22 FR Bordeaux - Iboat
23 FR Paris - Point Ephémère
24 FR Rennes - 1988 Club / Condominium
26 UK London - The Victoria - TICKETS

Track listing & artwork

1. THE ISLAND
2. THE MIRROR
3. THE CRUSH
4. THE HUNT
5. THE LULL
6. THE SHIFT
7. THE SLIDE
8. THE GIFT