“It’s the same as it ever was,” Disco Doom sing on the opening - and

title - track of their brand new album Mt. Surreal – but it’s a lyric

that never quite rings true. While there’s definitely a path from these

eight new songs to the hearts and minds of those waiting to hear them,

it’s never linear, never as straightforward as just putting one foot in

front of the other. Disco Doom is, as always, led by the band's core of

Anita Rufer and Gabriele De Mario, and the pair began working on a new

album back in 2018, with the final version we hear today worked on from

2019 until late 2021, the story taking many twists and turns along the

way.

Releasing music together for some twenty years, such longevity has

earned the band a legendary status in Switzerland, as well as a

reputation for making incredibly forward-thinking rock music. Since the

release of 2014's "Numerals", the Zurich-based band have toured the

EU/UK with both Built To Spill and The Breeders, had their music

featured in the end credits of HBO's Animals, and have also released a

critically acclaimed album under their J&L Defer alter-ego.

True to its name, Mt. Surreal is truly that – a strange and peculiar

journey that’ll wrap you up deep inside its intoxicating world, where

lyrics leap out at odd moments, where a hook grabs just when the whole

thing threatens to combust. “Mt. Surreal is a feeling we can’t describe

properly and one that’s constantly changing. It is a longing for what we

can not yet describe,” the band say of the new album.