Conceptual pop proggers have announced that their brand new studio album, , will be based around the final doomed flight of pioneering female “aviatrix” Amelia Earhart. is the band's first album since 2021's Berlin-based concept album and will be released through SO Recordings on October 4. The band have also shared the video for the first single from the album , which you can watch below.
"The song is about Amelia Earhart's plane, the marvellously named Electra," explains J. Willgoose Esq. "To match the name, the vibrancy and the excitement of the aircraft, the track is full of pulsing electronics and interlocking, percussive melody lines, plus pace.
" Aged 25, Earhart flew higher than any woman before her in 1922, and in the years that followed was the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, setting multiple speed and distance records. In 1937 Earhart announced that she would circumnavigate the globe in her Lockheed Model 10-E Electra aircraft. She crossed the Americas, Africa, the Middle East and Asia.
She left Papua New Guinea to fly to Howland Island in the Central Pacific but never made it. "I wanted to do a woman-focused story, because most of the archive we have access to is overwhelmingly male. I was initially drawn in by Earhart’s final fight, rather than the successes that she had, but the more I read the more I became fascinated by her.
Her bravery and her aeronautical achievements were extraordinary, but her philosophy and the dignity.
