Credit: Harry Steel
SELECTED PRESS FOR ENDLESSLY SO FAR:
“brilliant and vicious” – Rolling Stone UK
“an undeniably unique album. . . it has a rare coherence that demonstrates not only the band’s curatorial ear, but also an adeptness at sequencing, making the whole album feel like a single journey.” – Electronic Sound
“the album reflects on time spent apart and the power of reconnection through configurations of scorched techno, trip-hop, metal and off-kilter electronica, brushed with a sweaty, basement sheen.” – DJ Mag
“a potent force in British music.” – Clash
“A very welcome return from Scaler” – Huw Stephens, BBC Radio 6 on “Broken Entry”
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Today, SCALER have released their critically-acclaimed new album Endlessly via Bristol tastemaker label Black Acre (home to Commodo, Sully, Karen Nyame KG, Waldo’s Gift, Crimewave, and more).
Powerful and immediate, like a raised pulse under taut skin, Endlessly tugs at emotional threads and sonic touchpoints that feel tangled up – deliberately so – in the musical heritage of their city. There are traces of trip-hop, drum‘n’bass and experimental electronic, plus flashes of pupil-dilating techno, metal and drill, all carried by immense low-end pressure and tempered by more subdued, spatial stretches that drift and sprawl. Voices layer and loop, instrumentals do the same.
Contributors from Bristol and beyond add new colour to the band’s darkened palette and point to the left-turns they’re leaning into. Guests include Akiko Haruna and Tlya X An, who appeared on their recent singles “Salt” and “Evolve” respectively, as well as Art School Girlfriend, Shadow Stevie, “techno wizard” Thomas Ridley, and Cold Light’s ELDON, who appears on the new single. “Salvation” sees the band excavate their heavier, more familiar live energy, and is accompanied by a surreal and uncanny new video.
Speaking on the release of the album and the new single, the band says “With Endlessly we set out to push the limits of what this project can be in every direction; the darkness darker, the brightness brighter, heavier, softer, and everything in between.
This time around, we opened the door wide to collaborators and friends, and their energy helped shape the record into something wholly new for the next chapter of the band”
HEAR / STREAM “SALVATION” FT. ELDON HERE
WATCH THE VISUALISER FOR “SALVATION” FT. ELDON HERE
Having recently finished a packed-out EU tour with And So I Watch You From Afar and Robocobra Quartet, the band recently announced details of a UK / EU headline tour for November 2025 – their first since 2023. Routing is as follows:
LIVE DATES:
6th November – London, UK – Electrowerkz
11th November – Glasgow, UK – Room 2
12th November – Newcastle, UK – Cluny 2
13th November – Manchester, UK – YES Pink Room
14th November – Sheffield, UK – Sidney & Matilda Gallery
17th November – Birmingham, UK – Hare & Hounds
18th November – Leeds, UK – Brudenell
19th November – Cardiff, UK – Clwb Ifor Bach
30th November – Paris, FR – Point Éphémère
2nd December – Dunkirk, FR – Les 4Écluses
3rd December – Brussels, BE – Rotondes
5th December – Utrecht, NL – EKKO
6th December – Groningen, NL – Vera
8th December – Berlin, DE – Kantine am Berghain
Tickets are on sale HERE
(Guestlist available upon request)
Made up of Alex Hill, Isaac Jones, James Rushforth and Nick Berthoud, alongside visual artist Jason Baker. SCALER have been hailed as “Bristol’s next national breakthrough” by critics (The Guardian) and “legends in the making” by fans (per the always-honest YouTube comment section). Endlessly marks their second album, formally, following 2022’s acclaimed Void, which earned praise for their “perfect synergy between intensity and precision” (Pitchfork) and led to a 2023 double A-side single with Daniel Avery (“Loam” / “New Symbols”) that expanded on their more club-wise impulses– in keeping with a slew of remix projects shared over the years, featuring boundary-hoppers such as Laurel Halo, Bruce, and Azu Tiwaline. It also meant more chances to play out their formidable, now-stuff-of-legend live show, including an ArcTanGent headline, a Shangri-La shutdown at Glastonbury, and performances at Boomtown, Green Man, End Of The Road, ADE, Nuits Sonores, and many more.
Endlessly is an album made to be experienced as an album: an enthralling journey from start to finish, something to soak in. An opportunity for SCALER to sharpen the tools they’ve used most – the instincts of rock, metal and hardcore, the language of dance music – while taking a more intentional approach. Largely recorded at Bristol’s legendary The Louisiana, an intimate, independent venue with a basement studio, they worked with close friend (and former live band member) Alfie Tyson-Brown, an “engineer extraordinaire” with whom they share a “kind of telepathic relationship”. Longtime collaborator Sean Oakley handled mixing, with photographer Sandra Ebert joining Baker in bringing its artwork to life.
The communal nature of the album comes in many ways as a direct response to how Void came together. That period can be summed up, in short, as locked down, apart and in what they describe as “incredibly hostile” conditions. Endlessly, though, feels more settled – excitingly so. Less a calling card for the IRL SCALER experience (though their shows still come hotly tipped) and more a postcard from where they’re headed next.
“Endlessly truly feels like our first real album,” concludes the band. “Unlike our debut, which was made in isolation during Covid lockdowns, with this record we set out to embrace collaboration and bring people together. As a result, this record is shaped by many minds, working collectively to find cohesion between the diverse art and music that inspires us. It’s our most expansive, dynamic, and fully realised body of work to date, and one we’re incredibly proud of.”
Endlessly is out now via Black Acre – stream / buy HERE
TRACKLISTING:
1.quiet when it speaks
2. Salt ft. Akiko Haruna
3. Broken Entry
4. Mirage ft. Art School Girlfriend
5. (yearn)
6. Evolve ft. Tlya X An
7. Cold Storage
8. Sinking In ft. Shadow Stevie
9. Salvation ft. ELDON
10. Ravine
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SELECTED PREVIOUS PRESS FOR SCALER:
“Bristol’s next national breakthrough” The Guardian
“Rave-ready bangers from Bristol techno-metal heavyweights.” NME
“Brutalist, unsettling and pulverising, SCALER have carved out their distorted blend of genres with a sharp intensity that’s helped them drum up a reputation as one of the most incendiary live acts in the UK.” The Line of Best Fit
“SCALER achieve perfect synergy between intensity and precision. With rigorous control, they choreograph chaos.” Pitchfork
“While some club kids are content to use the dancefloor as an escape from the worries of the world, SCALER won’t let you check those burdens at the door. They want the rage to fuel you.” Bandcamp (Album of the Day)
“This isn’t standard-issue effervescent dance music. Falling on the harder side of the electronic spectrum and hitting in the way that only really heavy chords can.” Billboard
“Pulsing, darkly danceable reverie” The FADER
“They shred any fabric of formal music making into absolute bits” Jack Saunders, BBC Radio 1
“Absolutely massive. Little bit industrial, very full on, very loud.” Matt Wilkinson, Apple Beats 1 Radio
“Heavy hitting!” Mary Anne Hobbs, BBC 6Music
“Void is a record that writhes, contorts and throbs like a live show. Claustrophobic yet huge – it’s the sound of a rave crammed into a sticky, dark basement.” CRACK
“heavy with lurid and dazzling detail” The Wire
“With so much tasteful and overproduced dance music out there, this band’s scuzzy and rough-edged noise is a shot in the arm.” DJ Mag
“Something wholly new… and wholly unholy.” Loud & Quiet