Trans Am – Apparent Horizon

The new album by Washington’s electronic post-rock outfit Trans Am is entitled, Thing and is set to drop on April 20th via Thrill Jockey. Their label unveiled one of the new songs today, Apparent Horizon which can be heard below. The album is said to feature some interesting recording techniques:

For half of the tracks on Thing, Trans Am utilized a recording/composition strategy known as “Zombification.” Once a song was recorded, each of the band members (as well as anybody else in the studio at the time) would record multiple additional tracks without any reference to the previous ones. The song then forgot itself – and was almost unlistenable. After cellaring the un-dead music for up to a year, Trans Am would begin to peel back the layers of the song, usually arriving at something completely different.

One of Thing’s requirements was that each track contain a completely non-musical element, preferably something with a sonic signature that was not even necessarily a sound.

Source: Stereogum