"...the secret ingredient missing from so much of the music meant to
reawaken the new wave sound of the '80s: paranoia, at a peppy tempo."
Operators is a Montreal based project created by Daniel Boeckner,
(Wolf Parade, Handsome Furs, Divine Fits), Devojka, and Sam Brown
(Divine Fits, New Bomb Turks) in 2014. The band released an EP (EP1)
in 2014, and released their first LP (Blue Wave) in 2016, via Last
Gang Records. Operators supported these releases with a series of
international tours across North America, and Europe. Like Handsome
Furs, Operators’ music has resonated particularly well with Eastern
European audiences. The band has been well received across clubs and
premier festivals, such as Primavera (where they were asked to play
two years in a row - something that is usually unheard of).
While recording their sophomore LP, the members of the band kept busy
with a series of other endeavours, including the promotional cycle
around Wolf Parade’s Cry Cry Cry LP, a series of performances in
which Operators played material from the Handsome Furs catalog (which
all sold out in less than six hours), and Boeckner’s original song
for the critically acclaimed 2018 film Mandy.
Radiant Dawn will be released in May 2019 via Last Gang Records. The
album's nine tracks meld raw analog hardware with Boeckner's distinct
voice to create an immersive cinematic sound. Interspersed between the
tracks are instrumental intertitles that amplify the album’s 1970s
sci-fi dystopian feel. For fans of Boeckner’s catalogue, Radiant
Dawn feels like the next logical step in the artist’s two decade
career, while maintaining a completely fresh energy.
Radiant Dawn was written and recorded throughout 2018 and early 2019
in Montreal and Vancouver Island. Arcade Fire’s Tim Kingsbury played
bass and arranged the song “Low Life”, the album’s closing
track. The album was mixed by Wolf Parade's Arlen Thompson, as well as
up and coming Montreal engineer Napster Vertigo (who also produced the
album). The album was mastered by the Lodge’s Emily Lazar (on the
heels of her 2019 Grammy award win).
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