KHANATE ANNOUNCE PHYSICAL REISSUES OF CAPTURE & RELEASE AND CLEAN HANDS GO FOUL
THEIR MUCH ANTICIPATED EUROPEAN LIVE PERFORMANCES ARE APPROACHING IN APRIL
PRE ORDERS FOR THE REISSUES AVAILABLE NOW
In May 2023 Khanate abruptly broke a 14 year silence with the release of To Be Cruel (Sacred Bones Records) and subsequent physical reissues of their first two albums, Khanate and Things Viral. Now. as their first live performances in close to two decades approach in April, Khanate announce the return on vinyl and CD of the last two releases of their original run; Capture & Release and Clean Hands Go Foul on 24th May via Sacred Bones. Thus bringing things full circle.
Khanate’s live return is as precise and spare as these records and comprises only three perfectly curated performances at Roadburn Festival on April 20th, followed by shows in Copenhagen on April 22nd at Basement and Berlin on April 23rd at Berghain.
As part of their appearance at Roadburn, Khanate will also participate in the festival’s side program, taking part in a conversation with renowned artist Seldon Hunt on April 19th. Tickets for all shows can be purchased here.
Originally released in 2005, Capture & Release unfurled like a rotting blanket, polluting everything it touched with agitation and putrefaction.
A grim tale of fixation, abduction and torture recited over two songs and 43 minutes. Lyrically, it might be Dubin’s most upsettingly realistic Khanate narrative, an account of darkness and cruelty that few previous bands had explored. Musically, it is wave after wave of horror and despair.
CAPTURE & RELEASE TRACK LISTING:
1 – CAPTURE
2 – RELEASE
The squalid room on the cover of Clean Hands Go Foul (originally released in 2009) may or may not be the setting for the unspeakable acts being committed on “In That Corner,” but the opening couplet of 33-minute closer “Every God Damn Thing” plainly spoke of declining stability and a looming demise: “Am I dying? I hope it’s soon.”
“Clean Hands Go Foul is an excellent example of the unusual methods Khanate employed throughout our existence,” Plotkin says. “It’s a posthumous document of how we could embrace a complete change of direction and intent, solely for the excitement of experimentation. The fact that the entire album consists of unedited first takes as a fully realized work suggests that the band had developed an internal musical dialogue that even we weren’t fully aware of at the time.”
CLEAN HANDS GO FOUL TRACK LISTING:
1 – WINGS FROM SPINE
2 – IN THAT CORNER
3 – CLEAN MY HEART
4 – EVERY GOD DAMN THING