The Comet Is Coming, the London-based Mercury Prize nominated synth-sax-drum trio featuring DANALOGUE (Dan Leavers), SHABAKA (Shabaka Hutchings), and BETAMAX (Max Hallett), today announce their fourth studio album Hyper-Dimensional Expansion Beam set for release September 23 via the legendary Impulse! Records. Their first single “CODE” is released today – an intergalactic head-banger that explores hidden meaning and codes in humans (DNA) and technology – alongside a visualizer – check it out below. Pre-order Hyper-Dimensional Expansion Beam here.
On their fourth album, Hyper-Dimensional Expansion Beam, The Comet Is Coming – synth magician/producer Danalogue, drummer-producer Betamax, and saxophonist/spiritual riffologist Shabaka– burn brightly, soundtracking our epoch of change in ways their contemporaries simply aren’t trying to.
The process: emerging straight from lockdown, the trio went to Peter Gabriel’s Real World decked out studio tucked away in the English countryside. With the help of the band’s longtime engineer Kristian Craig Robinson, the trio embarked on a four-day long recording process guided by collective intuition, sheer skill, and transcendent improvisation. Next, Danalogue and Betamax fastidiously sampled the band’s own creations, alchemically weaving the out-of-body musical collisions with microscopic attention to detail in the production room. This distillation process yields a profound coherent musical message about the future of technology, humankind, spirituality, and the connectivity of the universe. Which just so happens to rock.
September 24 – Bentonville, AR, USA – Format Festival
September 25 – Nashville, TN, USA – Basement East
September 26 – Atlanta, GA, USA – Terminal West
September 27 – Vancouver, BC, Canada – Rickshaw Theatre
September 30 – Seattle, WA, USA – Crocodile Showroom
October 01 – Portland, OR, USA – Revolution Hall
October 03 – San Francisco, CA, USA – The Independent
October 04 – San Francisco, CA, USA – The Independent
October 05 – Los Angeles, CA, USA – El Rey Theater
October 13 – Chicago, IL, USA – Thalia Hall
October 14 – Toronto, ON, Canada – Axis Club
October 15 – Montreal, QC, Canada – Fairmount Theater
October 18 – Boston, MA, USA – Crystal Ballroom
October 19 – Philadelphia, PA, USA – Underground Arts
October 20 – Washington, DC, USA – Union Stage
October 22 – New York, NY, USA – Bowery Ballroom
