Batten down the hatches and seal yr mental exits: LA deep-dream doomsayers Robedoor embark on their inaugural China tour in April 2019. The prodigious drone duo of Britt Brown (founder of seminal American DIY weirdo network Not Not Fun Records) + Alex Brown have let the smelted metal feedback loops pool & congeal on their latest full-length release, New Age Sewage, for about 24 months now; its overripe and ready to be served cold. Catch them mid-ritual in Shanghai.

 

 

Robedoor is the Los Angeles-based occult industrial drone duo of Britt & Alex Brown. Since forming in early 2005 they have evolved through various dark and stormy improvisational modes – ritual noise, badlands psych rock, brutalist drum machinery, etc – and performed throughout the United States, United Kingdom, and Europe. Their discography runs deep, spanning dozens of cassettes, CD-Rs, and records across numerous labels including Chondritic Sound, Olde English Spelling Bee, Holidays, and Hands In The Dark, who released their most recent full-lengths: Primal Sphere (2013) and New Age Sewage (2017).

Robedoor’s live set is rhythmic, raw, and ravaged, executed in dimly lit spaces at maximum volume, accompanied by experiential video projections. They are currently mixing a new album to be released in 2019.

 

About New Age Sewage:
Four years after the release of their previous Hands in the Dark LP Primal Sphere, Britt and Alex Brown return with a new odyssey of chaos and psychosis: New Age Sewage. Written and recorded across multiple seismic life events (moves, births, deaths), the album is centered on heavy visions of negative west coast mythology. Themes of poison, hallucination, conspiracy, and false messiahs weave within their sinkholes of mystic sludge.

The duo’s music has grown darker, denser, and more visceral with each album. There’s a sense of practiced ritual, of deepening meditation, portals opening against their will. New Age Sewage documents half a decade of the band’s hermetic focus, shaped by instinct, will, and apocalyptic realities.