SOM stream their live performance from Roadburn Redux Festival 2021

Photo by Samia Zaidi

US dream pop/shoegaze/post-rock outfit SOM featuring members of Constants, Junius and Caspian stream live performance video from Roadburn Redux Festival 2021.

The tracks »Awake // Sedate« and »Youth // Decay« are taken from SOM’s new EP »Awake«, out now via Pelagic Records.

Mixed by Will Benoit.
Edited by Alex Pace and Justin Forrest.

Courtesy of Hold Tight PR:

SOM – the doom pop group made up of current and former members of Constants, Junius, and Caspian – have released their Roadburn Redux Festival performance.

The exclusive pre-recorded in-studio performance video, initially streamed from the stunning location of Leipzig’s UT Connewitz, one of Germany’s oldest cinemas, showcases the tracks »Awake // Sedate« and »Youth // Decay« taken from the band’s »Awake« EP released earlier this year.

SOM have also been announced for Camp Caspian this September. Curated by the members of Caspian, the three-day outdoor music festival will take place from 3rd – 6th September at Camp Oak Hill in Nottingham, Pennsylvania and will find SOM sharing the stage with Caspian, Pianos Become The Teeth, Junius, Dreamtigers, Aisha Burns, and the newly reunited Seneca. The intimate gathering will also feature acoustic and ambient sets, rig rundowns, axe throwing, swimming, nature walks, tattooing, and so much more.

Combining two exclusive originals with remixes by collaborators Holy Fawn, Hisself (Johnny Dang of O’Brother), U Dye (Marshall Gallagher of Teenage Wrist), and Giuseppe Capolupo (The Devil Wears Prada), SOM’s »Awake« EP is a doom pop triumph. Its concise compositions balance the gritty riffs of Deftones with airy, Tame Impala-esque vocal lines, just as primed for rock radio success as they are for shoegaze-loving connoisseurs.

»Awake« is out now independently on limited-edition cassette and digitally via Nuclear Blast’s digital subsidiary, Blood Blast Distribution and vinyl editions of »Awake« are available via Pelagic Records.

Purchase here: http://bit.ly/SOMawake
and here: http://somtheband.bandcamp.com

SOM were founded by Duncan Rich, frontman and former Constants colleague Will Benoit, and Adai founder and now-Caspian drummer Justin Forrest. While touring in support of their debut full-length The Fall in 2019, the band added guitarists Mike Repasch-Nieves and Joel M. Reynolds, both formerly of Junius and Driftoff.

The tracks on »Awake« are part of SOM’s ongoing mission to “leave this place better than we found it.”

Despite being recorded in quarantine, the EP was mixed by Benoit at his own Radar Studio in Connecticut – New England’s first solar-powered recording facility. Repasch-Nieves and Reynolds, meanwhile, spent the last year sustaining an urban farm in New York City, while Forrest distributed vegan food to Black Lives Matter activists in Denver through the Summer. Equally philanthropic is Rich, who now uses his production experience to host emotional fluency events for men. While many musicians lumbered in inactivity, SOM has used the darkness of recent times to create and heal. »Awake«’s bliss is an insight not only into the kind of harmony the quintet seeks to cultivate in all facets of life, but also the exciting second full-length that looms on the horizon.

“SOM… specialize in a gauzy, feedback-soaked sound… It’s not far flung from the output of high-volume shoegazers such as Deftones or Hum.” — Revolver

“SOM play the kind of somber, glimmering music that exudes a heavy fog of emotion and introspection around it.” — Kerrang!

SOM are:
Will Benoit – Vocals, Guitars
Justin Forrest – Bass
Mike Repasch-Nieves – Guitars
Joel M. Reynolds – Guitars
Duncan Rich – Drums

Bojan Bidovc // music enthusiast, promoter, misanthrop and sometimes a journalist as well