Sonic Avenues

Disconnector

Dirtnap

LP $16.00

10/21/2016 881970014613

ZZZ 146

CD $12.00

10/07/2016 881970014620

ZZZ 146 CD

MP3 $9.90

10/07/2016 881970014620

FLAC $11.99

10/07/2016 881970014620

Disconnector is the fourth studio album by Montreal-based band Sonic Avenues. The twelve songs were recorded in the winter of 2016 by Adrian Popovich and Sonic Avenue’s vocalist/guitarist Maxime Desharnais at Mountain City and Sound Salvation Studios (the latter being Desharnais’ home.)
With this latest, the band gets as far away possible from a formula of creative comfort—playing with new instrumentation, different tempos and a variety of song structures. A conscious effort to offer abrupt contrasts along with new textures has them turning from dark and quiet into fast, noisy, fuzzed-out sing-alongs.
Building on 2014’s well received Mistakes, Disconnector explores new themes of future and destiny, human potential and its annihilation, self-control, and abandonment. The band’s punk roots are still in evidence, though, and if you didn’t know what to listen for, this could almost be a different band from the one that released their s/t debut LP back in 2009. Never ones to make the same record twice, Disconnector marks Sonic Avenues’ biggest, boldest step forward yet.