Tranquility Falls

 The latest video for the Cornucopia mega-album project has its Premiere today, thanks once again to Vive Le Rock magazine who have been very supportive - here is Tranquility Falls: (click the track art work to go to the video)

Manchester psych explorers THE SPEED OF SOUND have unveiled a final video from their mammoth A Cornucopia triple album.

Taken from part two of the triptych, Victory, "'Tranquility Falls' describes the moment when an enveloping inner peace descends, becoming at one both internally with the immediate surroundings and also with the wider outside world - largely possible through looking further afield in the context of the whole universe or by focusing on the minute detail. Uplifting and joyous, it revels in serenity, but this is an all embracing serenity with a booming heavy bass and entwined guitar lines expanding and echoing through space rather than a mere silent mindfulness exercise."

Available on vinyl, CD and digitally, A Cornucopia is available here.

new video Premiere via Vive Le Rock

 Huge thanks to Vive Le Rock for hosting the video Premiere for SS-100-X today! 

"Mancunian psych-explorers THE SPEED OF SOUND unveil another new video. The cryptically titled 'SS 100 X' is taken from their triple album A Corncucopia, released last year through Big Stir."Spreading like a virus, conspiracy theories have gone mainstream and it all seems to have started long ago with the Kennedy assassination," say the band. "The simple and chaotic explanation of anything is now routinely jettisoned in favour of swirling dark forces and a wilful maliciousness to recognise anything as fact, instead everything is an issue of unshakeable faith in the existence of a sinister deeper plot. The video intentionally uses A.I generated images of variable quality to mix fact with speculation and inference, to match the post-fact world environment of the 21st century."

the article is here

The whole trinity

 All three segments of A Cornucopia are now up there on the streamers you can find all the links here; https://thespeedofsound.hearnow.com/a-cornucopia-pt-3-bounty  and mega thanks to Vive Le Rock for hosting the video premiere for Jaunt the latest Conrnucopia track to have a video visualisation and here it is:

Click on the image to go to the preview.

Manchester psych mob THE SPEED OF SOUND have unveiled another new video from their triple album A Cornucopia.

The sprightly 'Jaunt' is taken from the album's third disc Bounty, which is now available to stream here.

"Vigorous and stompingly crunchy, 'Jaunt' is a recklessly and incautiously fast garage-punker, sporting a mutated blues pattern with an added horn section while channelling the party energy of the B-52s," say the band. "'Jaunt' fits neatly into the rock-and-roll genre of 'Instructional Dance Song’, alongside 'The Timewarp' with the added 'Twist' of encouraging the next step in human evolution. 

"As David Bowie said in 'Oh You Pretty Things': 'gotta make way for the homosuperior'. Express your individuality, be the future and maybe gain the added benefit of telepathic and teleporting powers; either way this is about expressing individuality and having a great time doing it."

Three things

Mega thanks to Tameside Radio for having us as their Band Of The Week which involves being played every daytime show, every day for a full week - which is fabulous - and also being featured in the printed digital editions of the Tameside Reporter and the Glossop Chronicle. 

(Click the image to go to their Band Of The Week webpage)

And also,

Thanks to Vive Le Rock for their Video Premiere of 'Apocalypse Acropolis' which coincided with the 35th anniversary of our first ever recording session way back in 1989. Nice timing!

(Click the image to go to the feature and playable video link)

And!

The second disc of 'A Cornucopia' is Now Live on all the streaming services and available for download, the physical edition on CD and/or vinyl is still available click here for all the links.

There is still plenty more to come in 2024!

The Same River - Video Premiere

 Thanks to Rock At Night Magazine for premiering the video for The Same River, the latest visual instalment of A Cornucopia and the second track taken from disc two of A Cornucopia. 

Click the track image to go to the video on YouTube 

The Same River is an anti-nostalgia song, suggesting living in the moment is better than living in the past. Previous time can not be recreated, and once it has passed neither can the present. Grasp life and live it rather than trying to inhabit an illusion of what may have been.

The Rock At Night piece is here: https://www.rockatnight.com/2024/08/rock-at-night-video-premiere-uk-band-the-speed-of-sounds-the-same-river/

The Great Acceleration

 Thanks to Joyzine for their Premiere of the video for The Great Acceleration which you can find here:

Click the image to go to the premiere!

The Great Acceleration is somewhat epic in nature and there is a lot going on in there sonically as well as visually as this still showing Aylesbury stone circle in a scrapyard next to Windscale nuclear reactor might suggest.  

a Video Premiere for Zombie Century

And in an appropriately spooky touch of unplanned yet synchronised occurrences, our latest video has it's premiere today on Rock At Night Magazine and it is Zombie Century which coincides with Big Stir Records (also new) Stir The Cauldron compilation. Here's the link... 

Zombie Century can be found on Big Stir Records compilation Stir The Cauldron and also on The Speed Of Sound's Museum Of Tomorrow album.