New Fridge album, "The Sun"

Fridge is another project of Kieran Hebden, with friends Adam Ilhan and Sam Jeffers. Their new album "The Sun" is out in June 2007. Preview tracks available.

Kieran Hebden (a.k.a. Four Tet) just doesn't stop making music, it seems. He and his bandmates from Fridge have revealed the release date of their long-anticipated new album, The Sun. It will be in stores in June 19, 2007 with ten tracks at around 52 minutes. Pitchfork provides the details and a downloadable track.

That track, "Eyelids," sounds very different than earlier released tracks. "Eyelids," except for a bit of synths at the beginning, stays away from electronic sounds. Guitars and drums create a more traditional post-rock sound. "Cutup Piano and Xylophones," a sample track offered in a Pitchfork interview in August, sounds more like Four Tet-style sample-based dreamy melodies. It may still be on the album, but under a different name.

The Pitchfork post also provides initial details on another Hebden side project, Fire Escape, a collaboration with avant-noisemakers Sunburned Hand of the Man, The album was recorded in a relatively short session in The Exchange studio in London and is heavily focused on improvisation. It will be released in August on Norwegian label Smalltown Supersound.

More news as it comes.

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