
Australian alternative rock group Closure in Moscow will this week return to the UK and Europe for a May 2024 tour in support of their new album ‘Soft Hell,’ before hitting Australia along with The Dear Hunter and ToeHider later in the month.
Update: The Dear Hunter have withdrawn from this tour. Band statement HERE
To celebrate the release of their new album Soft Hell and talk about the UK, Europe and Australian tours, Australian Musician’s Joshua Batten spoke with Closure in Moscow’s Michael Barrett via a zoom call to catch up on all of the band’s news… and there’s plenty of it!
MORE ABOUT CLOSURE IN MOSCOW’S TOURS & ALBUM
Closure in Moscow will celebrate Soft Hell’s release with their first UK/EU shows in 9 years, visiting Germany, Hungary, Netherlands, Belgium and playing an exclusive UK headline show in London. The band will be joined at all headline shows by fellow Australian prog rock legends TOEHIDER and Hungarian post-hardcore outfit SHELL BEACH.
They will also play at Belgium’s iconic Dunk Festival, alongside a diverse array of artists, including sleepmakeswaves, Emma Ruth Rundle, Conjurer, Arms and Sleepers, and more. The band are currently in the midst of their ‘Soft Hell’ world tour, including a sold out North American run during February and a forthcoming tour of Australia in May, after earlier selling out their hometown album launch in Melbourne last December.
‘Soft Hell’ is the band’s third album and their first new album in 9 years, following Pink Lemonade (2014), First Temple (2009) and their debut EP ‘The Penance and the Patience’ (2008). The band have spanned a wide range of genres across their releases – from post-hardcore and earnest punk rock, through to progressive rock, avante-garde and experimental electronic rock.
Produced by Andrei Eremin (G Flip, Tash Sultana, sleepmakeswaves), the new record topped the Australian independent charts on its release and hit #6 on the ARIA Australian Album Chart.
About the new album, the band says:
The new album is called “Soft Hell.”
Getting comfortable with chronic discomfort caused by the choices that fears and trauma lead you to make. This is life in a soft hell. There are enough distractions to stave off facing up to it, you can keep yourself in denial to avoid it, and things can just keep ticking along. Life becomes a fever dream of creature comforts and time killers, floating further into a lake of fire. People come along to pull you out, but they too get burned when you feel too stuck to climb with them.
Thank you to everyone that had been patiently waiting for new music. Everyone involved with working on this went so above and beyond because they believed in it, and we hope you hear what they heard too.
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CLOSURE IN MOSCOW ‘SOFT HELL’ UK/EU TOUR MAY 2024
With special guests TOEHIDER and SHELL BEACH
CLOSURE IN MOSCOW, Toehider, Shell Beach – Thusday, 2 May 2024 – Underworld (London, UK) – TICKETS
CLOSURE IN MOSCOW, Toehider, Shell Beach – Saturday, 4 May 2024 – Kulturklub Schon Schon (Mainz, GER) – TICKETS
CLOSURE IN MOSCOW, Toehider, Shell Beach – Sunday, 5 May 2024 – Logo (Hamburg, GER) – TICKETS
CLOSURE IN MOSCOW, Toehider, Shell Beach – Tuesday, 7 May 2024 – Durer Kert (Budapest, HU) – TICKETS
CLOSURE IN MOSCOW, Toehider, Shell Beach – Thursday, 9 May 2024 – Poppodium Volt (Sittard, NL) – TICKETS
CLOSURE IN MOSCOW *DUNK!FESTIVAL* – Saturday, 11 May, 2024 – De Vooruit (Ghent, BEL) – TICKETS *Toehider & Shell Beach not appearing
Tickets on sale from www.closureinmoscow.com & www.birdsrobe.com
Presented by Echelon Talent Agency & Bird’s Robe
CLOSURE IN MOSCOW 2024 “SOFT HELL” AUSTRALIAN TOUR
with TOEHIDER
Update: The Dear Hunter have withdrawn from this tour. Band statement HERE
CLOSURE IN MOSCOW,Toehider – Thursday, 30 May 2024 – Max Watt’s (Melbourne, VIC) – TICKETS
CLOSURE IN MOSCOW, Toehider – Friday, 31 May 2024 – Manning Bar (Sydney, NSW) – TICKETS
CLOSURE IN MOSCOW, Toehider – Saturday, 1 June 2024 – The Zoo (Brisbane, QLD) – TICKETS
Tickets on sale from www.closureinmoscow.com & www.birdsrobe.com
‘SOFT HELL’ IS OUT NOW!
Listen/order Soft Hell
CLOSURE IN MOSCOW – ‘SOFT HELL’
1. Jaeger Bomb
2. Primal Sinister
3. Absolute Terror Field
4. Better Way
5. Holy Rush
6. Keeper Of The Lake
7. Lock & key
8. Don Juan Triumphant
9. Soft Hell
10. Fine
11. Lovelash
12. My Dearest Kate