Scaler have shared a new single titled “Evolve” ft. Bristol-based multidisciplinary artist Tlya X An. The single comes on the back of the band’s recent return with the announcement of their new album Endlessly – out 26^th Sept via Bristol tastemaker label Black Acre.

Powerful and immediate, like a raised pulse under taut skin, Endlessly tugs at emotional threads and sonic touchpoints that feel tangled up – deliberately so – in the musical heritage of their city. There are traces of trip-hop, drum‘n’bass and experimental electronic, plus flashes of pupil-dilating techno, metal and drill, all carried by immense low-end pressure and tempered by more subdued, spatial stretches that drift and sprawl. Voices layer and loop, instrumentals do the same.

Contributors from Bristol and beyond add new colour to the band’s darkened palette and point to the left-turns they’re leaning into. Guests include Akiko Haruna, who appeared on their recent single “Salt”, as well as Art School Girlfriend, Shadow Stevie, Cold Light’s ELDON, “techno wizard” Thomas Ridley, and on this latest single, Tlya X An. “Evolve” arguably marks the most melodic and hook-led moment on Endlessly, offset by warped instrumentation inflected with nu-metal and rivethead industrial elements.

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