Three Trapped Tigers have confirmed details of their first album in 5 years. ‘Silent Earthing’ will be available from the 1st April, and follows 2011’s ‘Route One or Die’ debut.
““I think the problem for anyone striving to create their own sound is, once you – hopefully – have achieved that, how do you expand that whilst maintaining it?,” ponders guitarist Matt Calvert. A question that has been in part answered by tours alongside Dillinger Escape Plan and Deftones, as well as working alongside Brian Eno and Karl Hyde of Underworld for the new record.
Calvert and drummer Adam Betts have honed their skills as part of The Heritage Orchestra, performing new takes on Joy Division classics, the Blade Runner soundtrack and more. It’s all led the band to where they are now.
“Our whole operation is very DIY – other than a few days of intense drum recording in a ‘proper’ studio, we recorded everything else in my flat, where I also mixed the album,” Calvert expands. “We rehearsed and did pre-production stuff at the Deptford Music Complex, just down the road from where Betts and I live, just off Queens Road, Peckham. It’s great to have had a local feel to the making of the album, we were very much entrenched in South East London that summer.”
The instrumental powerhouses have revealed the title-track from the record, alongside a series of UK tour dates in April and May.
APRIL
17 GLASGOW Hug and Pint
18 MANCHESTER Think Tank
19 YORK Fibbers
20 LIVERPOOL Buyers Club
21 MANCHESTER Deaf Institute
22 NOTTINGHAM Bodega, Nottingham
23 BIRMINGHAM Rainbow, Birmingham
25 READING Purple
26 GUILDFORD Boileroom
28 LONDON Scala
30 MILTON KEYNES Craufurd Arms
MAY
02 BRISTOL The Lantern
03 BRIGHTON The Haunt
09 LEEDS Brudenell Social Club
10 CAMBRIDGE Portland Arms