Includes unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
Purchasable with gift card
$10USD or more
Record/Vinyl + Digital Album
SOMAFREE INSTITUTE "Exit Signal" Exclusive Edition Vinyl
Limited Edition of 100 copies on Clear / White / Red Swirl Vinyl. Comes in a screenprinted jacket with an additional screenprinted slipcase and 11x11 insert.
Includes unlimited streaming of Exit Signal
via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
ships out within 7 days
edition of 100
Purchasable with gift card
$32USDor more
Record/Vinyl + Digital Album
SOMAFREE INSTITUTE "Exit Signal" Standard Edition Black Vinyl
Limited edition of 200 copies on black vinyl. Comes in a screenprinted jacket with an 11x11 insert.
Includes unlimited streaming of Exit Signal
via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
Existing at the nexus of the acoustic and the electronic world, Seattle’s SOMAFREE INSTITUTE expand upon the established foundation of their Vertical Helix Scan and Seek Sound Shelter EPs with their debut LP, Exit Signal. Anchored by drummer Tim Call and launched into the stratosphere by analog synth wizards Andrew Crawshaw and Justin Thomas Kleine, SOMAFREE INSTITUTE deliver seven tracks of propulsive and pulsating instrumentals that simultaneously rocket into the future while slyly navigating old school methods.
Harnessed and captured by Tim Green (The Fucking Champs, Unwound, Six Organs of Admittance) at Louder Studios, Exit Signal serves as a document of three musicians pushing and pulling against the electronic world in real time. The result is an album that beats with a human heart even as synth arpeggios, vocoded vocals, and auxiliary programmed percussion paint a chrome and neon landscape. There’s a palpable tension in that dichotomy, reinforced by SOMAFREE INSTITUTE’s suspenseful—if not outright sinister—timbral and melodic choices. Too evocative on its own merits to warrant the soundtrack designation, too dynamic to serve as a metronomic stimulant, and too engaging to merely color the air, Exit Signal is an active and engaging tactile exploration of the electronic world’s textural possibilities rendered in song form.
- Brian Cook (Sumac / Botch / Russian Circles )
credits
released April 5, 2024
Tim call - Drums / Synthesizers / Vocoder
Andrew Crawshaw - Synthesizers / Programming
Justin Thomas Kleine - Synthesizers / Vibraphone / Vocoder
I love this album way more than I thought I would. Feels like it should be a soundtrack to a dark sci-fi movie or video game. Really like the tension that it builds. Can’t wait for the vinyl to arrive! Justin Willis
For the core group of metalhead ambient "weirdos" (of which I'm proudly a member) loving Blood Incantation's mic drop 2022 release "Timewave Zero" - this is for you. 2 songs. 44 minutes of space ambient music atmosphere. Sound familiar? The not so mysterious artist behind the curtain is "Alle Klänge von W.S. Riedl" lol (just Google that shit). If you wanted to hear the embryonic intital idea (aka. "Timewave Negative") of where Blood Incantation is at now, definitely dive into this black hole. bcb723
The latest chapter in an ongoing electronic homage to "Freespace," a beloved space shooter video game series from the ’90s and ‘00s. Bandcamp New & Notable Jun 2, 2021