The Orchestra (For Now) share new single “Deplore You / Farmers Market”
New EP Plan 76 out 31st October
UK tour begins 13th November – including their biggest London headline show to date
Photo credit: Molly Boniface
Today, London seven-piece The Orchestra (For Now) have shared a new single titled “Deplore You / Farmers Market”. The brooding new track comes on the heels of the announcement of their eagerly awaited second EP, Plan 76 – out 31st Oct.
The new single “Deplore You / Farmers Market” is marker of the journey the band have been on and of their adept use of dynamics. It was both the first song the band wrote and played live yet is a departure from their earlier released material and trademark maximalist sound. The track sees them exuviating the dense layers of instrumentation to reveal a candid and emotional track which slowly builds to the point of breaking, before unleashing the EP’s final moment of powerfully orchestrated uproar.
Speaking on the single, the band says “It’s a front facing reckoning that explores ambition and fatigue, and the strains of failure and minor success. Deplore You / Farmers Market is one of our most direct songs, so we thought stripping back and exposing ourselves was the right call, letting the song breathe; it’s an experiment in restraint, right up until we can’t keep it in.”
The single is accompanied by a new video that features the band playing the track from a bedroom and is interspersed with fever dream-like cutaways that include religious shrines, instruments being destroyed, piles of cash being cut up, and more.
Watch / share the video for “Deplore You / Farmers Market” HERE
Single artwork
The last couple of years have seen The Orchestra (For Now) on the kind of ascent that most new acts can only dream of. They’d played the main stage at Green Man Festival, appeared at End Of The Road Festival, and played several sold-out headline dates before even officially releasing a single. Having honed their sound on the London live circuit, the band released their much-anticipated debut EP Plan 75 earlier this year igniting a fire amongst critics and their fanbase-cum-congregation alike. Capturing that same energy and passion that had made them an unmissable word of mouth success, the band sold out the Rough Trade exclusive version of their EP in less than 12 hours, earned widespread plaudits from the likes of NME, DIY, Rolling Stone, So Young, Clash, DORK, and Billboard, and sold-out their release show at London’s Institute of Contemporary Arts.
Plan 76 sees The Orchestra (For Now) continue to develop on their unwavering approach to what they have self-described as “London prog”. Combining avant-garde rock theatrics, classical interplay, pastoral baroque indie, post-hardcore intricacies, jazz-tinted freakouts, and everything in between, the EP is an expert-level exercise in tension and release. The elements that made their debut a breakthrough success are still there, the compositions are unpredictable yet unmistakably hook infused, and there are droll references to pop culture and the world surrounding them, but here everything is levelled up, the underpinning fragility wrapped in a shroud of musical confidence that can only come with such wide-eyed ambition.
Going on to speak about the EP, they say “Plan 76 completes the first story we wanted to tell. It is a continuation of the themes in our first record but placing what we established there in different worlds and situations. Instrumentally speaking it is, to us, more ambitious. Not because we are playing incredibly complicated parts, but the opposite – we tried to refine rather than complicate. There are incredibly exposed moments, where we stripped the instrumentation back (which is not natural for us to do). This EP is also setting the scene for what will come next..”
Plan 76 finds The Orchestra (For Now) at the tail end of a summer of packed out festival performances across the UK and EU with sets at Latitude, Conges Annules, End Of The Road, Manchester / Edinburgh Psych Festival and more. Further appearances at the likes of Sŵn Festival, Live At Leeds, Les Nuits Botanique, and Iceland Airwaves are to come this Autumn ahead of an extensive UK tour that features their biggest London headline show to date at Scala – full dates are below.
Live dates:
18th Oct – Sŵn Festival, UK
1st Nov – Les Nuits Botanique, Brussels, BE
6th Nov – Iceland Airwaves, IS
13th Nov – Sheffield, UK – Hallamshire Hotel,
14th Nov – Glasgow, UK – Hug & Pint,
15th Nov – Live at Leeds In the City, UK
16th Nov – Manchester, UK – YES Pink Room
18th Nov – London, UK – Scala
20th Nov – Bristol, UK – The Exchange
21st Nov – Southampton, UK – Heartbreakers
22nd Nov – Brighton, UK – Green Door Store
4th Dec – Cambridge, UK – Portland Arms
EP artwork
Tracklisting:
1. Impatient
2. Hattrick
3. Amsterdam
4. The Administration
5. Deplore You / Farmers Market
The Orchestra (For Now) are:
Joe Scarisbrick (vocals, piano)
Lingling Bao-Smith (violinist)
Charlie Hancock (drummer)
Erin Snape (cellist)
Millie Kirby (bassist)
Neil Thomson (guitarist)
Bill Bickerstaff (guitarist)