Merz, the branchild project of British multi-instrumentalist and singer-songwriter Conrad Lambert, has announced the release of his new album No Compass Will Find Home, due out on January 7th 2013 via Accidental Records.
According to the album’s blurb, No Compass Will Find Home “is a progressive, wild and ragged record with a unique kind of psychedelia”. Merz described his new effort as “a big bowl of Romanticism and a rush of Rousseau-esque rhythms”.

Recorded in the foothills of the Swiss Alps, No Compass Will Find Home features Gyda Valtysdóttir (founding member of Icelandic band Múm), London guitarist and composer Leo Abrahams and Swiss drummer Julian Sartorius. Merz invited Matthew Herbert to help with production duties and here’s what he said about this partnership:
“I wanted to work with Matthew Herbert because of his work with Micachu and The Invisible, two really adventurous British groups. Having made the last record, which dallied with my folk roots, I became switched-on again to music that seemed to have been made in the near future, artists who were ahead of the rest, with vision. Also being in an environment like Switzerland that has quite a modernist feel about it at the same time as being very medieval, it has an appealing balance between the old and the new. High velocity Snowboarding…..replacing walks in the pastoral English countryside….definitely contributed to the more adrenalin fueled sounds.”

Listen below to ‘Toy’, the first track unveiled a while back, and ‘Goodbye My Chimera’, another cut off Merz’s forthcoming album.