Gala Drop return with II

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  • The Lisbon band's new album will come via Golf Channel this November.
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  • Gala Drop will release their second full-length, II, through Golf Channel on November 24th. The group's Balearic sound entered the wider dance music consciousness with Overcoat Heat, a 2010 release for Golf Channel. Since then, they collaborated with Ben Chasny of Six Organs Of Admittance and toured with Panda Bear. For II, Gala Drop have brought Detroit expat Jerry The Cat into the fold. He's known for his collaborations with Arttu on Clone Royal Oak and has also worked with Motor City mainstays Funkadelic, Parliament, Derrick May, Moodymann and Theo Parrish. Jerry draws comparisons between Detroit's mishmash of music scenes and what he's found in Lisbon. He says: "Detroit wound up a city with so much contamination between styles, from Motown to garage rock and then the birth of techno. Lisbon felt like that when I moved here too, I was going out to a techno club at the weekend but going to see a garage rock show or some free jazz band in the week. The post-Millennium Lisbon has been very fertile musically speaking." His bandmate Nelson Gomes also operates Príncipe, the label that brought DJ Marfox and his cohort to the world. Check out album cut "Sun Gun" below.
    Tracklist 01. You and I 02. Big City 03. Sun Gun 04. Monad 05. All Things 06. Slow House 07. Let It Go 08. Samba Da Maconha Golf Channel will release II on November 24th, 2014.
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