Hannah Jones, the percussionist for Circulatory System and an artist whose work is frequently for sale at Orange Twin's website, has been polishing her live act as the lead singer/songwriter for The New Sound of Numbers through several shows over the past couple of months. This week she takes that act on the road accompanied by The Instruments. The debut album from The New Sound of Numbers, Liberty Seeds, will be officially released on Cloud Recordings October 10, but she will be selling advance copies on the tour.

I've had the promo copy stuck in my CD player for a week. It's a major departure from Hannah's previous recordings (as Lorkakar, CD-Rs sold at Cloud's website)--the biggest difference being that these are songs, and the experimentation comes from the use of multi-layered vocals, often singing the same refrain in different styles to a driving beat. Like the first album by Circulatory System (the majority of whose members appear on this record), Hannah picks her obscure themes and follows them into the dark: seeds, animals, machines, numbers. These chosen motifs fit the music perfectly, which is anxious and obsessed with invention. But most of all, this is a CD to pop into your car when you want to speed down an open road.

I'll post a full review closer to the release date, but in the meantime here's the second track off the record, "Luminous September," for you to take on a test drive.

The New Sound of Numbers - Luminous September

Dates for the New Sound of Numbers/Instruments tour can be found here.
A few months ago Optical Atlas spoke to Hannah about the band, and you can read the full article here.