New Model Army have announced their 16th studio album ‘Unbroken’ to be released in 2024 alongside a huge tour of European and UK dates. The band started writing the album in 2021 against a backdrop of everything that is happening in a fast changing world and in their own lives. They decided early on that their number one choice to mix the new album would be the legendary Tchad Blake who accepted, and now says “Not much hits me as genuine these days. New Model Army hits it for me. Wonderfully recorded and produced by the band themselves, mixing this album felt like a gift.” Full of guitars, searing vocals and with the emphasis on bass and drums which characterizes all their work, Unbroken sounds a lot like New Model Army, but different again.
Formed in Bradford in 1980, New Model Army are storming through their fifth decade and show no signs of letting up. They recently released a live double concert album ‘Sinfonia’ in September 2023 a unique performance recorded
with the Sinfonia Leipzig Orchestra at the Tempodrom venue in Berlin. The new studio album Unbroken is out 26 January 2024 changing world and in their own lives. They decided early on that their number one choice to mix the new album would be the legendary Tchad Blake who accepted, and now says “Not much hits me as genuine these days. New Model Army hits it for me. Wonderfully recorded and produced by the band themselves, mixing this album felt like a gift.” Full of guitars, searing vocals and with the emphasis on bass and drums which characterizes all their work, Unbroken sounds a lot like New Model Army, but different again.
Formed in Bradford in 1980, New Model Army are storming through their fifth decade and show no signs of letting up. They recently released a live double concert album ‘Sinfonia’ in September 2023 a unique performance recorded with the Sinfonia Leipzig Orchestra at the Tempodrom venue.
Aznincs
The Aznincs band has been operating since April 2016. In the beginning, the formation of two, now four members (Boglárka Kiss - drums, Gábor Horváth - bass guitar, Zsolt Pintér - guitar, Attila Prokop - guitar) plays exclusively their own songs. His style is perhaps gloomy. The members are characterized by musical openness and the search for interesting solutions. For two years, they have been performing regularly in small and large clubs in Budapest.
Formed in Bradford in 1980, New Model Army’s beginnings were inspired by Northern Soul, Punk Rock and the incendiary atmosphere of the times. Since then, they have had a long, creative and eventful journey. They have been massively influential in ‘post-punk’, ‘folk-rock’, ‘political-rock’, ‘goth’, ‘metal’ and all kinds of musical sub-cultures but they have steadfastly refused to belong to any club or style that would limit them.
Even without a specific ‘genre’ audience, New Model Army still have album sales in the millions, have attracted some of the biggest producers on the planet (Glyn Johns, Tom Dowd, Andy Wallace, Bob Clearmountain, Joe Barresi) and have built up an almost religious devotion amongst fans. There are very few bands in NMA’s position of being able to record and release what they like when they like, while maintaining a worldwide following and all without making a single artistic or commercial compromise.
Recent years have also seen a renewal in the band’s critical and commercial fortunes. The “Between Dog and Wolf” and “Between Wine and Blood” (2013/14) and “Winter” (2016) albums re-established the band as a significant creative force. And 2019’s “From Here”, album, recorded on the tiny Norwegian island of Giske against the backdrop of sea, mountains and the current events sweeping the world, has seen their highest ever chart positions and some of their best ever reviews.
2020 will see the band taking the unusual step of looking back over their long career and their huge seventeen album back catalogue to mark their 40th Anniversary.
This is a remarkable band - as hungry and focused as ever, with a continually regenerating audience and insatiable creative ambition.
