Arduous-Fi tease mysterious date: “Do not go planning”
Arduous-Fi have teased a mysterious date simply months after wrapping up their first reunion tour in over a decade.
The Staines indie-rock band introduced a collection of sporadic reunion reveals in 2022, the place their tour celebrating 15 years of ‘Stars of CCTV’ bought out in simply 10 minutes. They might later announce their first full UK tour in 11 years in Could final 12 months, happening to play London, Liverpoo, Sheffield and extra in October.
Now, it seems the band might have extra surprises up their sleeve. Arduous-Fi took to social media to put up a cryptic picture of a date on a blaring yellow background. “Don’t go planning”, the put up reads, “20.05.24”.
The band teased they had been writing new materials once they spoke to NME final 12 months – it’s potential this may very well be the signal of forthcoming music.
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Once we spoke to frontman Richard Archer, he mentioned new Arduous-Fi materials was “in every single place”, including: “There’s some concepts I’ve had sat for some time now that I preserve considering I’m gonna do one thing with, after which different new stuff. It’s nonetheless early doorways, however we’re simply attempting to attempt to work out what it’s that Arduous-Fi needs to say now.
“‘Stars of CCTV’ appears extra related now than it did again in 2005, nearly. Numerous the topics are extra prescient now maybe, so, it’s simply attempting to determine what’s it we wish to say, and sonically what will we wish to be doing? We’re attempting a lot of various things out to see what resonates.”
He additionally spoke about whether or not the band would preserve their noughties sound, persevering with: “There’s all the time going to make certain issues that sound like us, so there’ll all the time be parts of that. Nevertheless it’d be fascinating to only attempt totally different stuff. Usually you’ll do one thing and also you’ll go, ‘That doesn’t sound like a Arduous-Fi track’ and it turn out to be one thing else, and generally you’ll do one thing that’s like, ‘That’s not what I’d anticipate a Arduous-Fi report to be however it appears to suit in some way’.
“So it’s just a bit little bit of experimenting, attempting various things and seeing what matches. We’ve simply been engaged on this monitor the final couple of days in between rehearsing the set and stuff and I’ve all the time cherished synths. My past love was The Human League, so there’s just a few extra synths on it. Has that match? It appears to work.”