{"id":15275,"date":"2019-08-30T12:18:10","date_gmt":"2019-08-30T11:18:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/castthedice.org\/?p=15275"},"modified":"2019-08-30T12:18:10","modified_gmt":"2019-08-30T11:18:10","slug":"the-utopia-strong-set-to-release-self-titled-debut-album-in-september","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/castthedice.org\/?p=15275","title":{"rendered":"The Utopia Strong set to release self-titled debut album in September"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_15276\" style=\"width: 623px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-15276\" class=\"size-full wp-image-15276\" src=\"https:\/\/castthedice.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/The-Utopia-Song.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"613\" height=\"408\" srcset=\"https:\/\/castthedice.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/The-Utopia-Song.jpg 613w, https:\/\/castthedice.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/The-Utopia-Song-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 613px) 100vw, 613px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-15276\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: Al Overdrive<\/p><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/theutopiastrong.bandcamp.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Utopia Strong<\/a> is the exciting new synth project that brings together Kavus Torabi (Gong\/Cardiacs\/Knifeworld\/Guapo), Michael J. York (Coil\/ Teleplasmiste\/Guapo) and former Snooker champion Steve Davis. With musical tastes in common, the three first got together in 2017 at Glastonbury festival, and as Steve Davis explained, &#8220;once we\u2019d jammed together and listened back to the improvising &#8211; the music felt pretty euphoric and otherworldly. It was very psychedelic but also strangely wonky\u201d.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Next month will see The Utopia Strong release their self-titled debut album, and the trio had previously shared the epic and hypnotic first single \u2018Brainsurgeons 3\u2019, clocking in at over 10 minutes in length. They have followed it with the extraordinary kosmiche track &#8216;Konta Chorus&#8217;. Both come with accompanying videos, the latter made by John O&#8217;Carroll. Here they are.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/-1osxHixrFc\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/gG02P9j406I\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><em>The Utopia Strong<\/em> is out on September 13th through <a href=\"http:\/\/rocketrecordings.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Rocket Recordings<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Utopia Strong is the exciting new synth project that brings together Kavus Torabi (Gong\/Cardiacs\/Knifeworld\/Guapo), Michael J. York (Coil\/ Teleplasmiste\/Guapo) and former Snooker champion Steve Davis. With musical tastes in common, the three first got together in 2017 at Glastonbury festival, and as Steve Davis explained, &#8220;once we\u2019d jammed together and listened back to the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15276,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[2096],"class_list":["post-15275","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog","tag-the-utopia-strong"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/castthedice.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15275","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/castthedice.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/castthedice.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/castthedice.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/castthedice.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15275"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/castthedice.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15275\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15282,"href":"https:\/\/castthedice.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15275\/revisions\/15282"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/castthedice.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/15276"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/castthedice.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/castthedice.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/castthedice.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}