DC Gore
Having released new album ‘All These Things’, DC Gore embarks on a UK tour this Autumn taking in dates in Manchester, Leeds, Bristol and Brighton.
Following the dissolution of south London trio Little Cub, Gore has remodelled and reimagined the band’s electronic synth-pop within his solo work to incorporate additional acoustic instrumentation which makes for a more textured and temperate sound. “All These Things is a bookend to a torrid period in my life,” Gore comments. “There are so many themes in there of failure and frustration (personal and political), shame and longing, but in the end, there is a hope to it. All these things that feel so all-consuming at the time become quotidian in the wake of a global pandemic.”
As inspired by the unvarnished portraiture of Martin Parr as he is Ballardian grotesquerie - and by the seedy witticisms of Jarvis Cocker and arch art-pop commentary of Neil Tennant, Gore’s music sits proudly within a rich tradition of distinctively British disrupters. Skewering notions of national identity with a vivid mix of pin-sharp satire in an expansive palette of synthesising new wave art-rock, Gore effortlessly creates songs that are as ingeniously calculated as they are dance-inducing. Highlights include the propulsive, tragicomic “Nietzsche On The Beach”, the melancholic dancefloor-focused “California” and “Bodies” featuring plaintive piano chords and distorted guitar.
“It's a very real possibility that we might be living in the end times, you know? This might be how we're going to go out. And we've got this incredible opportunity to experience life, so why not make the most of it?”
UK live dates
29th Oct – Mood Swings @ YES, Manchester
10th Nov – Just Dropped In Records, Coventry
12th Nov – Headrow House, Leeds
13th Nov – The Lanes, Bristol
15th Nov – The Waiting Room, London
16th Nov – Folklore, Brighton
All These Things is available to pre-order on Dom Mart in exclusive curacao blue vinyl with an All These Things-printed notebook and signed polaroid, exclusive curacao blue vinyl, vinyl, CD and digitally. Pre-order: Dom Mart | Digital.
