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Leeds-based Menace Beach return with their third album ‘Black Rainbow Sound’, due out via Memphis Industries.

‘Black Rainbow Sound’ is the band’s first new material since early 2017’s ‘Lemon Memory’ and, after a self-imposed break from tour duties, the album exhibits a profound shift in their sound, whilst still mainlining the blasts of noise, visceral power and timeless pop songsmithery of their previous releases.

Unlike the band’s previous records, ‘Black Rainbow Sound’ came to life in the bands studio, where Liza Violet and Ryan Needham built dense late night orchestrations from drum machines, synthesizers, loops and guitar noise, before being ripped apart and reimagined by the full Menace Beach cast at The Nave studio in Leeds with coproducer Matt Peel (Eagulls).

Never ones to shy away from an intriguing collaboration, Black Rainbow Sound contains songs featuring Brix Smith of The Fall and Brix & The Extricated. “The synchronicity of the universe just forced us and Brix together. The very day l finished reading her biography she played us on her BBC 6Music show along with a wonderfully outthere monologue of how the song made her feel. I said thanks, we got chatting and it went from there. She’s a burning comet of positive energy.”