Description
Tracklisting:
Side A
01 What You Deserve
02 Chew
03 Tomorrow Lied The Devil
04 Leave Me The Name
05 What Did You Think Was Going To Happen?
Side B
01 The End Of The Beginning
02 Start The Flood
03 The Earth Will Swallow The Sun
04 Lorraine In Blood
05 Lunatics
With more than a quarter of a century of noise making history behind him, singer and guitarist Harry Armstrong returns, alongside drummer Kieran Murphy, as Noisepicker and release their second album, available March 21st 2025 via Exile On Mainstream Records.
Also known as the current bass player in Orange Goblin, you may well have caught Armstrong on countless festival line ups, experimenting with sounds in bands such as the hard rock of Blind River, the thrash metal of End Of Level Boss, the piano-led jazz rock of The Earls Of Mars, getting his stoner fix in Hangnail and Firebird (alongside Bill Steer and Ludwig Witt), the instrumental soundscapes of The Winchester Club, the death metal of Decomposed, and that’s just to name a few. Murphy has been earning merits in Cold Comforts and several other bands such as being the drummer for Paige Kennedy.
Having released their first album “Peace Off” in 2018, also on the Exile On Mainstream label, other commitments (and the dreaded C-19 shutdown) put Noisepicker on a slight hiatus, until a stash of un-used riff ideas were dusted off during 2024 to make what is about to be their second full-length release.
On a permanent search to constantly try “something else”, Armstrong has taken to writing, recording and mixing this new record himself, just to see if he could. Recorded in a rehearsal room, and mixed in his kitchen, it is an approach to music with a DIY ethic fully embedded in it’s heart.
Do not expect neat, polished, note perfect, carefully constructed opuses in this environment. Noisepicker are loud, abrasive and in constant flux, influenced by their love of all things doom, punk and blues. Come stare aghast at it.
The album is released on vinyl with the CD bundled, No seperate CD release.
