'Truth Is The New Gold' say Feral Five

“Free your mind and the rest will follow" (En Vogue).

Intergalactic time travelling artists from the 22nd century, launch an album of art beat future into the atmosphere of 2023

 ‘Truth Is The New Gold’

Digital, Vinyl, CD album, ;available 10th February 2023
Composed, performed and produced by Feral Five.
Mastered by Katie Tavini.
Sleeve design by Glastonbury exhibited Malcolm Garrett (Buzzcocks, Duran Duran, Magazine).
Synthetic AI voice instrument designed by Birds on Mars.

Released via buzz independent label, Reckless Yes Records (Bugeye, LIINES, Fightmilk, more). Alongside general release, available to the membership who support the label.

Feral Five’s dazzling debut album ‘Truth Is The New Gold’, is an evocative voyage through a Feraltropolis style future city, and an offering of sonic elixir for heart, feet and mind. Leading us through secret spaces, changing skies, personal truths and revelations, the Ferals glide seamlessly between bold alt pop, experimental electronica, and cinematic landscapes.

With acclaimed singles, EPs, and radio play including BBC 6Music and RadioX X-Posure under their belt, the Ferals have now signed with independent label Reckless Yes to take us on a deeper emotional journey in ‘Truth Is The New Gold’. (Reckless Yes Records)

Feral Five - Kat (she/her) Vocals, Synthetic AI voice, Guitar, Synths, Live coding, Percussion and Drew (he/him) Bass, Beats, Synths, Guitar, Percussion, Vocals - emit cosmic angel-disco melody.

Songs are tinted with Cocteau-twinned Duranish Portishead tangents, tech-tok trip-hop beats tackle lyrical home truths about Planet Earth. With ever inventive ways to create and present music and widescreen cinematic tones, these are are just a few facets of this Craft Punk duo.  “Enid Blyton's worst nightmare" Steve Lamacq

Feral Five explore sonic frontiers of technology.

They’ve worked with sonified algorithms, 3D printing, predicting #3dprintinghumans, sampling and creating 3D printed artwork, and using a 3D printer as an instrument when they played Music Tech Fest. Recognition is growing.

As a founding member of both the Human League and Heaven 17, electo legend, Martyn Ware gets it and invited them to create and perform music for his Picasso Portraits night at the National Portrait Gallery in London’s Trafalgar Square as the great Women’s March of 2017 grew outside, ready for the next day.

By 2022, our Space Vixen, Kat Five is no stranger to repping at international technology events and industry/creative community conventions. She’s also been invited to join the Voting Academy for The Brit Awards 2023, thanks to the Music Producers Guild.

Additionally, TheZineUK can attest to her supporting fellow musicians at grassroots venues. Our situationist documentary gets mind expansion help from the kind souled vision of Feral Five.

They’re a golden thread through the zeitgeist tapestry of interdependence exciting dystopia with hope of better days. Over the last few years, especially we’re seeing the cast and crew of this tale gift new possibilities to whatever happens next.

In the multiverse, Feral Five are from a bright and colourful city of peaceful green spaces and artfully astounding places. ‘Truth Is The New Gold’ plays across Golden Rule Plaza sometimes and children of all ages throw shapes and style, blissfully.

This dimension is impressed with them, too:
“Glitchy throbbing beats, whirring electro-fused hooks, and a fierce driving energy”
Get In Her Ears

“Think The Knife with the soundscapes of Sigur Ros”
The Girls Are

"Etherealpop supreme.” Rocklands

Truth Is The New Gold. SOON.

https://www.feralfive.com/

Alternative music documenting inspirations

#Zeenagers EXPO is go

As a documentary, #TheZineUK doesn’t function on the chart/competition December/January Listmas format of music sites any more than running regular reviews etc. The following names are from on line conversations, What’s App and gig chats. Nowt from December’s version of Twitter.

As usual, doing our own situationist thing outside “how it’s supposed to be done” and social media trends, the story evolves organically outside of major hype but noticeably. From this tapestry, there are Weekend Recovery, Cold Water Swimmers, Feral Five and Cross Wires amidst albums coming in 2023. Bands who are creating notable legacies for their names.

If you’ve ever been aware of our Picture Story Diary Doc (first uploaded Spring 2014), you’ll notice the Fertile Environment seeding in a variety of real time. Some developing into unimaginable moments that, when they happen, make total and deserved sense. Bands come, go, evolve, get on, sod off as things go right or wrong. When wider attention hits, ya love to see it, right?

Decolonise Fest stars Big Joanie, Nova Twins and Bob Vylan playing this year’s Glastonbury Festival and being half of the inaugural MOBO altnernative music group nominations this year, is a strong case in point.

There are so many more of our cast and crew from TheZineUK pages and socials! We couldn’t make it up. We don’t have to. Bang Bang Romeo toured with Pink, False Heads in the charts, Benefits all over the place. Here’s 42 Seconds of The Mysterines interview early 2020. They’re on tour with Arctic Monkeys in 2023.

Working Class women of wide spectrum of backgrounds, powered (with Tory-unfriendly-heritages and political views) TheZineUK’s 2023 adores the diversity of generation tremorists (i.e. all ages, it’s the 21st century!) in the vanguard of a newer wave music industrious movement.

Big up the grassroots venue circuit, the likes of Music Venue Trust and Independent Venue Community and please play respect to all the technicians, promoters, producers, presenters, DJ and expanded fun-fam of media/industry and audiences support that makes this a genuine game changing era. The documenting by photographers, writers and film makers is incredible. The illustrations and graphics are part of the exhibiton. We need each other.

This music site x events creator may be only a small “Rocking Pebble” or “New Whimsical Express”, but our inclusion ain’t delusion. Everybody’s invited, watch all their/our spaces.

2018. That time the legendary promoter and connector, Kick Out The Jams (rock n roll circus) hosted a night of good mixing that has become one of music’s “I Swear I Was There” moments. Roger Kent of Kent and his extended fam of fun signed off with a final event in December 2022 but is a space worth watching for future hopes. The line ups helped to fuel what is happening. It’s All Happening!

Uniqulture’s tapestry weaves through the interaction, co-promotion and collaboeration of friends, strangers or otherwise. We’ll document 2023 with a view to creating the Zeenagers Expo from the reality of soundtracking escapism from dystopia’s now and next…

Gen and the Degenerates wowing This Feeling’s Leeds/London festival ReWired in August. Spotting members of JW Paris in the crowd, this is one of the live music clubs where musicians and their followers make friends with like minded souls. Another reason for the fertile environment starting to really take seed.

Some 2022-flavouring artists to look out for in 2023

Anna Wolf
Arxx
Bugeye
Cobain Jones
Coco and the Lost
Colossus
Dictator
Eternum Joy
Fitzroy Holt
Gen and the Degenerates
gglum
Glytsch
Hotwax
JW Paris
Kill The Icon
Lime Garden
Lufe Tempo
Mango In Euphoria
Megan Wyn
Nadia Sheikh
Noah and the Loners
Ramona Marx
Ruby J
Small Miracles
Something In The Lake
Spangled
Teenage Sequence
The Dead Freights
The Kairos
The Molotovs
The Now
The Outers
The Velvet Hands
Venus Grrrls
Weekend Recovery
Wharves

February 2022, caught Arxx at The House Of Vans Next Generation shows and later in the year at Croydon’s As The Cro Cro Flies. Exceptional bands that rock with credible composition and performance abilities. There’s a lot of DIY development since the new world began in 2020 vision. As we adapted together we have created brighter possibilities for balance.

Albums

Adwaith 'Bato Mato'
Arctic Monkeys 'The Car'
Asylums 'Signs Of Life'
A Void 'Call Of The Void'
Bait 'Sea Change'
Beabadoobee ' Beatopia'
Berries 'How We Function'
Big Joanie 'Back Home'
Black Country, New Road 'Ants From Up There'
Bob Vylan 'The Price Of Life'
Buzzard Buzzard Buzzard 'Backhand Deals'
Deux Furieuses 'Songs From Planet Earth'
Dry Cleaning 'Stump Work'
Enjoyable Listens 'The Enjoyable Listen'
Fontaines D. C. 'Skinty Fia'
Ghum 'Bitter'
Gwenno 'Tresor'
Johnny Marr 'Fever Dreams'
Kid Kapichi - 'Here’s What You Could Have Won'
Louis Tomlinson 'Faith In The Future'
MOSES 'I Still Believe! Do You?'
Nova Twins 'Supernova'
Peaness 'World Full Of Worry'
Pillow Queens 'Leave The Light On'
Rina Sawayama 'Hold The Girl'
Sinead O Brien 'Time Bend And Break The Bower'
Soccer Mommy 'Sometimes Forever'
The Assist 'Council Pop' 
The Linda Lindas 'Growing Up'
The Shop Window 'A 4 Letter Word'
The Snuts 'Burn The Empire'
The Smile 'A Light For Attracting Attention'
Wet Leg 'Wet Leg'
Witch Fever 'Congregation'
Wynona Bleach 'Moonsoake'

We doff our documenting cap to Simon Williams of Fierce Panda. In the newer wave are a wealth of 1990s shapers involved with guiding, while learning from, up and comers of the scenes. The beauty of generation tremorists is ideas and experience exchanging excitedlly. A revision of the widespread zoomer-v-boomer division. Instead, the tunes go zoom, results go boom. Woven into our tapestry, respect to you all!

Thanks for reading/creating/performing/supporting this genuine arts movement.

Dizzy Spell (Editor)/Caffy St Luce (Events)

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