Caligula’s Horse, a band at the forefront of Australia’s progressive rock scene, have announced the release of their forthcoming fourth studio album, In Contact, for release on the 15th September 2017.
As with the band’s acclaimed album Bloom before it, In Contact sees vocalist Jim Grey and lead guitarist Sam Vallen collaborating closely on the music and lyrics. Vallen comments: “In our creative process every idea is scrutinized, deconstructed, and rebuilt in a way that one of us, alone, could never achieve. We’re one another’s harshest critic, but fortunately we’ve done this for long enough now that our inspiration draws us in a similar direction – we can finish each other’s musical sentences, so to speak. And we’re lucky that’s the case, since In Contact proved to be a much more ambitious undertaking than anything we’d conceived of in the past.”
Vocalist Jim Grey adds: “In Contact has been an enormous proposition – the stories told in this album feel deeply personal, and we’ve never been more excited to share a new work with the world. The sounds on this album are dark and adventurous – but without losing the bittersweet and joyful sounds we developed in writing Bloom.”
Prior to the new album’s release, the band are set to return to Europe in June 2017 for a string of live dates including support slots with Opeth, Anathema & Pain of Salvation, UK headline shows and festival appearances at Midsummer Prog Festival (Valkenburg, Netherlands) & Be Prog! My Friend Festival (Barcelona, Spain). To coincide with that, InsideOutMusic will reissue the band’s first two albums Moments From Ephemeral City & The Tide, the Thief & River’s End on the 16th June 2017 as CD & digital download.
CALIGULA’S HORSE
EUROPEAN TOUR DATES
Monday 19th June: Le Rex, Toulouse, France w/ Pain of Salvation
Tuesday 20th June: Les Docks, Lausanne, Switzerland w/ Opeth
Wednesday 21st June: Z7, Pratteln, Switzerland w/ Opeth
Thursday 22nd June: Substage, Karlsruhe, Germany w/ Pain of Salvation
Friday 23rd June: Doornroosje, Nijmegen, Netherlands w/ Anathema
Saturday 24th June: Midsummer Prog Festival, Valkenburg, Netherlands
Sunday 25th June: The Talking Heads, Southampton, UK
Wednesday 28th June: The Black Heart, London, UK
Friday 30th June: Be Prog! My Friend Festival, Barcelona, Spain