Pop. 1280
GOTH | INDUSTRIAL
New York’s Pop. 1280 was formed in 2008 by Chris Bug and Ivan Drip, with the vision of rebelling against the music of the day and making their own soundtrack for the end times. Initially a noise rock outfit, the band has released five LPs and numerous singles integrating diverse influences of industrial, EBM, techno, and post-punk into their signature sound. In 2018, Matthew Hord joined Chris and Ivan, and this new trio embarked on a collaborative journey that saw the band shed their rock roots and turn their focus toward sequencers, drum machines, samplers, and synthesizers. This exciting outpouring of creativity produced 2019’s "Way Station" LP.
Now, Pop. 1280 present their 2021 album, "Museum on the Horizon" on Profound Lore Records, an industrial opus that epitomizes Pop. 1280’s drive to push themselves into new artistic territories, and to inspire each other to be bold and hold nothing back. Recorded, mixed and co-produced with Jonathan Schenke in Brooklyn, NY, Museum on the Horizon finds Pop. 1280 at the height of their powers on a thrill ride of industrial bangers.
CONTACT:
QC: JP@MOTHLAND.COM
CAN/US: JULIANA@MOTHLAND.COM
Albums
Concerts
Video
Press
“Returning to New York after extensive touring that took them to Europe and back, the band restructured, paring themselves down to the core duo of Ivan Drip and Chris Bug, and new recruit Matthew Hord, who brought new expertise in analog synth hardware unlike anything heard before in Pop.1280.
The result is an album of frenzied intensity and madness that is perfectly illustrated in their first from the new record with “Boom Operator”.”
“It is more skeletal and raw in places than their two previous albums, and more lush and thick with synth and guitar in others. This production is ultimately what makes Paradise such a standout; there are plenty of young industrial and noise-rock bands running hard on all cylinders, as Pop. 1280 did on their prior efforts.”
“Though rhyming can be a key piece in songwriting, the use of it on Paradise restrains it from creating anecdotal journeys into a pierced soul. Instead of immersing listeners into the paranoid and battered mind of the record’s character, rhyming brings attention back to the structure of the piece, reeling away from the darkness that can be so consuming. Where musicians can falter in their stylizing of a noise rock angle by randomly putting their noise in ill-fitting sections, Pop. 1280 use their arsenal very well. It is in the desire for complete immersion that dwarfs Paradise from being more grotesque than modern Marilyn Manson.”
Landmark Events
FESTIVALS
Liverpool International Festival of Psychedelia
Pop Montreal
Hopscotch Festival
Grauzone
Incubate,
Beserktown
Fun Fun Fun
SHARED STAGE WITH:
Lydia Lunch, No Joy, Body Of Light, The Soft Moon, Total Control, Slug Guts
METZ, Pissed Jeans, Melt Banana, Protomartyr, Psychic TV, Screaming Females, Iceage,
Hide, Drab Majesty, A Place to Bury Strangers.