Gazpacho stream brand new single Clockwork

Norwegian proggers Gazpacho have streamed brand new song Clockwork. It's taken from the band's upcoming new album Fireworker, which will be released through Kscope on September 18.

"[It's] a trip into the mind to uncover the animal that, the main character believes, lives there and how much of him it really controls," explains keyboard player Thomas Anderson. "As the main character of the song ventures deeper and starts sensing that the animal is near, his consciousness tries to warn him that there are some things better left alone and communicates this through a dream."

The new single doesn’t feature on Fireworker in this form; it is part of the album’s opening track Space Cowboy. Fireworker, like most Gazpacho releases, is a conceptual affair, dealing with the idea that humanity has always been controlled by an infallible and omniscient creature determined to propagate at any cost. A such, it's the culmination of the themes and techniques that’ve decorated earlier collections, combining the fatalistic isolation of Night and Missa Atropos; the ill-fated narrative drama of Tick Tock and Soyuz; and the hefty theological/scientific contemplations of Demon and Molok.

“There’s an instinctual part of you that lives inside your mind, separate from your consciousness. I call it the Fireworker or the Lizard or the Space Cowboy," explains keyboard player Thomas Anderson. "It’s an eternal and unbroken lifeforce that’s survived every generation, with a new version in each of us. It’s evolved alongside our consciousness, and it can override us and control all of our actions.” In order to get us to do what it wants, he clarifies, the Fireworker will silence the parts of our mind that feel disgust or remorse so that we’re unable to stop it.

Fireworker will available on CD, gatefold double LP on 180g black vinyl (3 sides audio, 1 side art etching) and digitally (digital pre-orders receive the title track Fireworker as an instant download).

Pre-order Fireworker.

Writer and broadcaster Jerry Ewing is the Editor of Prog Magazine which he founded for Future Publishing in 2009. He grew up in Sydney and began his writing career in London for Metal Forces magazine in 1989. He has since written for Metal Hammer, Maxim, Vox, Stuff and Bizarre magazines, among others. He created and edited Classic Rock Magazine for Dennis Publishing in 1998 and is the author of a variety of books on both music and sport, including Wonderous Stories; A Journey Through The Landscape Of Progressive Rock.