” Permanence’ is No Devotion’s dark, dense, daring debut – a record that early singles suggested would be a Joy Division-inspired post-punk ride, but contains light and menace in equal measure, all with more hooks than an abattoir.” – NME
“Big and bold and triumphant synth-rock … ‘Permanent Sunlight’ is a tremendous, surging song, the sort of song that makes you want to stretch your arms skyward while you’re standing on a hockey-arena floor somewhere.” – Stereogum
poppiest moments.” – Brooklyn Vegan
Collect Records and No Devotion are excited to present the full album stream of the band’s debut LP, Permanence. Now streaming exclusively at NME ahead of its release this Friday, September 25, Permanence is the long-awaited, 11-song skyscraping showcase from the band featuring ex-Thursday vocalist Geoff Rickly and the former members of Lostprophets that is being called a “dark, dense, daring debut” by NME in its track-by-track guide. Stream Permanence in its entirety HERE.
Additionally, the band has announced a handful of North American appearances in support of Permanence (pre-order & bundles). Spanning the middle of October and including a stop at this year’s CMJ Music Marathon with a performance at the Brooklyn Vegan/Collect Records showcase at Baby’s All Right, in Brooklyn, NY on Wednesday, October 14, the tour will also hit other east coast markets such as Boston, MA on Monday, October 12, Philadelphia, PA on Tuesday, October 13, Washington DC on Thursday, October 15 and Fords, NJ on Saturday, October 17 for an in-store performance at Vintage Vinyl. Tickets are on sale now and more information on the tour can be found via Collect Records’ official site, http://www.collectrecords.org.
When No Devotion‘s first single literally dropped out of nowhere exactly one year ago – with a world premiere on the BBC Radio 1 Rock Show that saw Daniel P. Carter playing the track twice in a row – it’s safe to say that most of the world was caught off guard. Geoff Rickly, the Brooklyn-based former Thursday frontman, had been keeping busy in the public eye with his politically satirical punk outfit United Nations without any indication that he’d been working on anything else – much less a new band with the former musical base of Lostprophets, one of the UK’s most successful rock bands of the decade. There was even less indication of a life after Lostprophets: For Stuart Richardson, Richard Jamie Oliver, Mike Lewis and Lee Gaze, stepping out of the public life altogether was a personal necessity. But the arrival of “Stay” proved that this collaboration was as vital as it was embraced, immediately making its way onto the UK Official Charts and setting a stage for the band to round out the year with a second single, two UK tours (including one supporting Rickly’s old friend Gerard Way), a rapturous New York City debut, and the certain promise of a full-length album. That part, it seems, took a little more time than they imagined.
The end result is Permanence – an album as ambitious and expansive as its name suggests.
Mixed by Dave Fridmann (The Flaming Lips, MGMT, Cut Copy, Thursday), produced by Stuart Richardson and Alex Newport (Bloc Party, Frank Turner, The Mars Volta), this is the sound of a band not only liberated from their pasts, but perhaps liberated by them. Slates finally clean, No Devotion have refined those early flirtations with nostalgic pop-noir to find themselves at the intersection of post-punk heart and contemporary tricknology. It’s an album as aggressively rhythmic as the singles are unrepentantly melodic – a development powered by the band’s recently departed drummer Luke Johnson and founding Bloc Party drummer Matt Tong, who split the drum duties on this record.
Of course, at its core, No Devotion’s debut album still draws on a subject matter that bleeds with equal measures longing and satisfaction; in the same way that he did in Thursday, Rickly finds his muse somewhere between the anxiety and relief of modern life. But ultimately, Permanence is about the mark that’s left after the bleeding: It’s something new, something unpredictable, something there to remind you.
No Devotion will be making the following appearances this fall in support of Permanence. Tour dates below.
OCTOBER
12 – Boston, MA – Brighton Music Hall (w/ Wax Idols, Creepoid)
13 – Philadelphia, PA – Foundry at the Fillmore (w/ Creepoid, Wax Idols) *
14 – New York, NY – Baby’s All Right (BrooklynVegan & Collect Records CMJ Showcase w/ Nothing, Creepoid, Wax Idols & Foxes in Fiction) +
15 – Washington D.C. – The W Hotel Rooftop (Free with RSVP to: http://www.povlivenodevotion.
17 – Fords, NJ – Vintage Vinyl (live in-store performance)
18 – Hoboken, NJ – Maxwells
* Creepoid headlining
+ Nothing headlining
Permanence track-listing:
