Welsh experimental collective The Orchestra (For Now) have shared their new single ‘Deplore You / Farmers Market’, taken from their forthcoming EP Plan 76, out 31st October.
Known for their immersive live shows and shifting sonic architecture, the band channel that widescreen intensity into something surprisingly intimate here. The new track pares back their orchestral grandeur for a minimalist moment of reckoning, exploring ambition, fatigue and the uneasy spaces between failure and small success.
“It’s a front-facing reckoning that explores ambition and fatigue, and the strains of failure and minor success,” the group explain. “‘Deplore You / Farmers Market’ is one of our most direct songs, so we thought stripping back and exposing ourselves was the right call, letting the song breathe; it’s an experiment in restraint, right up until we can’t keep it in.”
The track arrives ahead of a string of live dates that will see the band perform at SWN Festival before heading to Iceland Airwaves. Following that, they embark on a UK headline run through November and December.
Plan 76 follows a breakout year for The Orchestra (For Now), whose unorthodox blend of post-rock, orchestral composition and pop experimentalism has earned them acclaim as one of the most daring new acts to emerge from the Welsh underground.
Listen to ‘Deplore You / Farmers Market’ now and catch The Orchestra (For Now) on the following tour dates:
November
13 Sheffield, Hallamshire Hotel
14 Glasgow, Hug & Pint
15 Leeds, Live at Leeds In the City
16 Manchester, YES Pink Room
18 London, Scala
20 Bristol, The Exchange
21 Southampton, Heartbreakers
22 Brighton, Green Door Store
December
4 Cambridge, Portland Arms
Plan 76 is released 31st October.
Photo credit: Molly Boniface
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