Shlohmo Dark Red

Earlier this year, Shlohmo linked up with True Panther, announced his first live tour of North America and shared the moody ‘Emerge From Smoke’ (which received mixed reviews from the FACT Singles Club).

Now, the LA innovator has announced Dark Red, his first album since 2011′s Bad Vibes. Stream new single ‘Buried’ below. The album is due out on April 7 and can be pre-ordered now.

"It sounds like if Electric Wizard tried to make an R&B record," Laufer himself explains in a press release, "or Boards of Canada meets Burzum by the River Styx." Laufer goes on to further explain that he began recording the record after returning to Los Angeles and setting up a small studio in his apartment which was mostly stocked with an arsenal of '80s-era gear originally owned by his father. Furthermore, Laufer was in a particular mental state during the recording of the album, saying, "I had just lost some people close to me and was dealing with another loved one's health issues. I was all over the place mentally, and I think it reflects in this record whether I like it or not." In the press release, the SoCal artist goes to explain that his one aim going into the record was to make it "loud... and not just loud but really really fucking loud. I wanted the sound of the thing to be devastating and violent."

Helping us make sense of that description is "Buried," the record's lead single which sees wobbly melodies, scattered drums, and distorted, hand-played basslines rise from a bed of electronic noise.

1. Ten Days of Falling
2. Meet Ur Maker
3. Buried
4. Emerge From Smoke
5. Slow Descent
6. Apathy
7. Relentless
8. Ditch
9. Remains
10. Fading
11. Beams