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“The intellectual contingent of her writing aside, Psychotic Melancholia is a positively jaw-dropping exposition that celebrates the entire canon of rock ‘n’ roll’s energy, and should be considered an upping of the ante on the gritty sonic real estate of garage, punk, country, and Americana, into some amalgam altogether more apt of Thompson-King’s wondrous artistic aptitudes.”  - PASTE Magazine

Hayley’s forthcoming album, Sororicide, explores a broad range of sounds with threads of Americana, echoes of opera, and reverberations of garage rock throughout.  Produced by Sean Slade (Hole, Lou Reed, Radiohead) and engineered by Benny Grotto, Sororicide was inspired by art song cycles like Robert Schumann’s Liederkreis, and concept albums like Brian Wilson’s Pet Sounds.  Sororicide is a narrative of original songs and that draws from Hayley's studies as an opera singer.  It also incorporates her arrangements of arias "Must The Winter Come So Soon" from Samuel Barber's Vanessa and "Toi, le coeur de la rose..." from Maurice Ravel and Colette's L'Enfant et les Sortileges.  These contrasting styles are a vehicle to tell the story of an artist whose inner voice is so deafening that she comes to believe it is that of a parasitic twin she absorbed while in utero. The “twins” are a genuflection to composer Kurt Weill and Bertolt Brecht’s ballet chanté Die Sieben Todsünden (1933).

Far Too Loud is all about hi-tech, dancefloor-destroying music that makes people throw their hands in the air and go crazy. Think high-energy, aggressive funk with big basslines and crazy edits and you’ll know the sound. 

Formed by Oli Cash and Dom Smart back in 2005, their sound quickly won fans and only two years later picked up 'Best Single' at the Breakspoll Awards.  Later that year the FTL anthem 'Play It Loud', which saw a move from breakbeat to dirty electro-house, received a massive response and remains a crowd-pleaser to this day. 2009 saw the duo split with Dom forming techno moniker Neurodriver and Oli continuing with FTL, producing a string of electro chart-smashers including 'Bring Back Boogie' and 'Megaloud'.

The bass-fueled releases of 2012’s ‘Firestorm’ EP and the follow-up 'Faster Than Light' EP received high praise from all over the bass music scene, bursting with the now familiar big production and energy. Cementing FTL’s place in the bass music scene, these paved the way for more recent releases on heavyweight labels including OWSLA, Never Say Die, Disciple, and Monstercat, and remixes for bass-lords Zomboy, Snails and Pegboard Nerds.

Well experienced in delivering unique sets packed with energy, whether it’s 200 people in a sweaty underground club or 20,000 at an outdoor festival, you can be sure it’s going to go off when FTL is in control!

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