Name: Cleareye Shining
Brand: Bitumen

Bonus disc

Bonus disc: No

Catalogue number

CD-IT-022LE

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Discs

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Rough Trade Exclusive

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Format detail

Format Music US

Limited edition

Release date

2022-04-22

Signed copies

Signed copies: No

Supplier US

Redeye

Tax rate US

Sales:8.875

UPC / Barcode

634457090125

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LP-IT-022LE

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634457090118

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Artist

Bitumen

Genre US

Industrial

Label US

It Records

Cleareye Shining is the much anticipated sophomore album from Melbourne industrial postpunk outfit Bitumen. This new album sees the four-piece building on the primitive industrial post-punk of their 2018 debut LP Discipline Reaction (Vacant Valley), broadening their sound further into electronic and synth-based, gothic pop realms. Cutting guitars and stabbing bass remain – as does the dynamic intensity of Discipline Reaction – but now fused with new influences to create an album of diverse, direct and intricately-wrought songs.

Guitars, synths, samples, and electronic drums coalesce with the distinct and incendiary vocals of extraordinary frontwoman Kate Binning, whose lyrics weave stories set across ancient times, the modern world and futurist dystopian possibilities. Sometimes romantic, melancholy or full of rage. 

Known for their intense live performances, Bitumen have played alongside the likes of Lydia Lunch, Peter Murphy, The Chameleons and Drab Majesty among many others. 

While performing was off the agenda throughout 2020, the band leaned into producing a finely-detailed studio album, experimenting more heavily with electronic instrumentation, layered vocals, and house and breakbeat-inspired percussion. Cutting guitars and stabbing bass remain – as does the dynamic intensity of Discipline Reaction – but now fused with a new palette to create an album of diverse, direct and intricately-wrought songs.

The resulting album evokes nostalgia, all the while carving something entirely new and singularly exciting. It’s a stone-cold killer record.

Cleareye Shining

Music US