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Signia Alpha

New album - Entropy

Album Release Date: 20 October 2023
Artist: Signia Alpha
Musical Formats: Vinyl LP, CD, Download
Label: Mutiny 2000 Records


Entropy is the new album by Signia Alpha, a group spearheaded by multi-instrumentalist Matt Webster, who provides drums, guitars and some vocals.
Guest musicians include:

Paul Gray (The Damned, Wingmen, Sensible Gray Cells, Eddie & The Hot Rods) adds his distinctive Rickenbacker bass guitar to all 10 tracks on the album. 

Singer-songwriter Harris (Chaing, Grim, Nowt, Zed) co-writes and sings six songs.

Mathew Seamarks (Disciples of Spess), writer of 'This Song' as heard on The Stranglers 'Dark Matters' album, co-writes and sings 'Building Castles In Spain'.

Simon 'Nogsy' Nolan (SpyBand, Zed), original vocalist for  early '80s anarcho punks Anti-System, co-writes and sings 'On Diego Garcia'.

Guitarist Wulf Ingham lends his psychedelic solos to a couple of tracks.

Jazz saxophonist Keith Jafrate and flautist Chris Walsh sprinkle their melodic flourishes over several songs.

1. Such A Shame

This wall-of-sound Buzzcocks style pop-punk rocker contains a haunted and surprisingly effective interlude that sounds like the theme tune from some long-forgotten TV programme. 

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2. On Diego Garcia

A song about the island in the Indian Ocean whose inhabitants were forcibly expelled by the UK Government to make way for a military base. Tightly interwoven Brian James style guitars and layered vocals lend this impassioned track the intensity of a New Model Army song. 

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3. A New Dawn

Impressively atmospheric guitar-driven mid-paced number with an instantly catchy chorus line

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4. Hourglass

This song of passing and lost time is driven by a burning rhythmic urgency with pounding drums and hookline bass over shimmering keyboard arpeggios.

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5. The Price Of Admission

There’s a slowing of pace for this reflective ballad with a breadth. depth and complexity that hints at Pink Floyd.

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6. Feels Like Rain

Fluent flute opens this almost Beatles-ish song about the current cost of living crisis offset by a bouncy and almost cheerful rhythm. Towards the end, there’s a cool sax break just before the flute returns.  

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7. Building Castles In Spain

Simultaneously downbeat and upbeat, this thoughtful song has a subtly seductive listen-again appeal which should make it a fine candidate for release as a single from this album.   

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8. Waiting

A quirky mosaic of music to a song prefiguring the apocalypse as acoustic guitars are overtaken by loud guitars and drums before returning for a middle section where Paul Gray references one of his most famous basslines.

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9. The Atmosphere

Here’s another winning number, a 7 minute look back on climate change from our future selves which conjures passing comparisons to Floyd (Pink, not Keith!).

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10. Kaleidoscope Wheels

And, at less than 90 seconds, the album closes with its shortest track, an overlapping cut-up of voices and instruments that is exactly what its title suggests.

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Produced and recorded by Matt Webster at Signia Alpha Studios, 2021-2023 Additional recording by Paul Gray, Harris, Simon Nolan,Wulf Ingham and Keith Jafrate Additional drums on Castles, Atmosphere and Kaleidoscope Wheels recorded by Tim Walker @ Voltage Studios

 

â„— & © 2023 Signia Alpha / Mutiny 2000 Records

All music written by Matt Webster

A New Dawn, The Price of Admission, Kaleidoscope Wheels: lyrics by: Matt Webster

Such A Shame, Hourglass, Atmosphere: lyrics by: Matt & Harris

Feels Like Rain, Waiting: lyrics by Harris

On Diego Garcia: lyrics by Simon Nolan

Building Castles In Spain: lyrics by Mathew Seamarks

 

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