“TAR” is the long-awaited second album by jeffk, out January 20, 2023 on Golden Antenna Records. The first album “Inadequate Shelter” (2018) impressed many Post-Rock and Instrumental Rock fans. After touring throughout Europe and playing major Post-Rock festivals, jeffk returned to Jan Oberg’s Hidden Planet Studio in Berlin to record the new album.
On “TAR,” the trio refined its style of creating sonic landscapes by focusing on groove and balancing playfulness and aggression. The music is accompanied by an album cover and visuals that can be considered as an artistic commentary on the dystopian zeitgeist of today’s society in light of humanity’s impact on nature.
“Idle Eyes” is the first single from “TAR,” about which the band has to say: “The song is inspired by the everyday tensions and imbalances in each of us, sometimes closing our eyes to reality. The cinematic interpretation may be linked to a growing certainty that what has been destroyed can not simply be restored.“
Watch the official 4K video through the YouTube player below:
About the album title and theme the band has to say: “The album title TAR refers to mankind’s tendency to cover their paradise with concrete, thus robbing it of its qualities and depriving themselves of habitat in order to create a new ‘paradise’ that doesn’t come close to the previously destroyed one.“
jeffk has the ability to convey this kind of dystopian atmosphere with their music, arranging elements of (Post-)Rock, (Post-)Metal and Electronic Music. By adding loops and synthesizers, jeffk creates a style that is in no way a cliché of already explored Post-Rock themes.
The beautiful artwork was designed by Adrian Kietzmann.
“TAR” is released in two colored vinyl editions, as a digipack CD and as a digital download, pre-order it right here: https://goldenantenna.com/?s=jeffk
Tracklist:
- Fingers
- Arcades
- Ratio
- Idle Eyes
- Lake Bled
- Swarm