65daysofstatic have returned with an exciting announcement – the release-to-streaming of EP ‘MIMIK’. As of today, February 7, the record will be accessible on streaming platforms, such as Spotify and Apple Music, as well as digital purchase via Bandcamp.
Originally released in 2021, ‘MIMIK’ marks the band’s latest and final installment of their 4-part Wreckage Systems project. Produced post-pandemic, the collection of EPs blends classic instrumental sounds with experimental synth, delivering the classic 65daysofstatic sound through the frequent musical syncopation.
In the overview of the EP, representatives of 65daysofstatic write: “‘MIMIK’ is here to fix up your existential wounds, like a bandage made of concrete. Architectural techno-solace, a scaffolding of surety and safety. A brutalist cathedral, its roof of reverb held aloft and shimmering on columns of sub bass. A powerhouse of intention and that intention is: what if dancing but in 7/8? Come in, and welcome. Let the waveforms embrace you. Shelter here from the storm, then make one of your own.”
The Wreckage Systems project boasts previous EPs from the band, including ‘Available Data’, ‘Tomorrowd’, and ‘Under the Summs’. Brought to fans as a product of 65LABS, the research and development team behind the band’s more experimental output, Wreckage Systems began as constantly evolving musical avalanche, aiming to solve the equation of “noise x infinity”, making its live stream debut May 26 2021. Available to stream via YouTube, the recording demonstrates 65daysofstatic’s work at its most inventive, showcasing the result of a music system that stacks “layer upon layer of noise on to and into itself.”
At the time of release, the band described the EP as “an ode to the spaces, both physical and liminal, mostly denied to us during these pandemic years.” Four years later following the announcement of release-to-streaming of ‘MIMIK’, 65daysofstatic share the continuous sentiment of spatial restriction that once inspired their music, reflecting: “It seems like a lot of those spaces never really came back, did they? And you can tell we had succumbed to cabin fever because rarely do we treat nostalgia as anything other than the enemy.”
Formed in 2001 in Sheffield, 65daysofstatic are a band at the forefront of experimentalism, blending contemporary techno sounds with their guitar-driven post-rock origins. Best known for providing the soundtrack to the 2016 video game, ‘No Man’s Sky’, the band have been achieving critical acclaim since the beginning of their career, their debut album, ‘The Fall of Math’, being described as “artillery against the argument that music isn’t exciting at the moment.”
In its true innovative fashion, music from the Wreckage Systems project is currently only available via internet access and fans have yet to see any live performances from the band since its launch.
See below for the full track-list of ‘MIMIK’:
1. Mimik (Brln)
2. So Long, Linearity!
3. Synth Ascend
4. Circuit G
5. Mimik (Original)
‘MIMIK’ is available for streaming now.
