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Track of the Day: Department M – Bleak Technique

• 13th Jul 2015

It’s been nearly two years but Leeds duo DEPARTMENT M are back with new single ‘Bleak Technique’ – a stark, moody slice of electronica shot through with post punk influences and the industrial smog of a Northern town in flux.

Released on 7″ vinyl on 7th August via local label Hide and Seek Records, the new material sees Brinley joined by fellow Leeds musician Tommy Davidson, drummer of Pulled Apart By Horses.

The second track to be taken from their forthcoming debut album, the record was produced by James Kenosha (Rhodes) at The Lodge in Bridlington. Their trademark brooding, alluring blend of post-punk and gloom-laden synth pop is given a melodic shot in the arm on the new single with a heavy bass line groove and a snake-hipped lead guitar line, featuring sultry guest vocals from Snow Fox (Vessels).

Brinley explains of the inspiration behind the new single single; “’Bleak Technique’ is steeped in a kind of 21st century paranoia I’m noticing so many people around me starting to feel. With the onslaught of social media and technology tracking our every move, our lives don’t feel particularly private anymore and that can be a difficult feeling to shake. The song is an expression of wanting to immunise yourself from the perceived threats of a post-internet world…’I’m only phantom, I’m only neutral’.”