SCALPING have announced details of their debut album ‘Void’, as well as sharing a futuristic video for lead single ‘Flashforward’.

The Bristol band, who were included in the NME 100 in 2021, are set to release the album on April 29 via Houndstooth.

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“We wrote this whole album without playing a single note of it together,” the band’s Alex Hill explained. “We produced all of the songs using the computer – as a blend of recordings and samples of our live drums, guitars and drum machines into production software – and then translated it all back into a live performance.

“Although there are structured songs on the record, there’s no explicit focus on exactly recreating those songs live either. Everything is adapted to work into a set that flows well. A lot of album parts are rewritten during rehearsals for the good of the live set as a whole.”

Check out the sci-fi visual for ‘Flashforward’, created by visual designer and long-term collaborator Jason Baker, below.

The band – consisting of Isaac Jones on drums, James Rushforth on bass guitar, Nick Berthoud on guitar, and Hill on electronics – spent 2021 playing a number of live dates, including touring with Squarepusher and performing at Pitchfork Festival London.

You can pre-order/save the new album here.

‘Void’ tracklisting:

1. ‘Blood Club’
2. ‘Caller Unknown’
3. ‘Tether’ (feat. Daemon)
4. ‘Silhouettes’
5. ‘Cloak & Dagger’
6. ‘Flashforward’
7. ‘Desire’
8. ‘Over The Walls’
9. ‘Remain In Stasis’ (feat. Grove)

In a four-star review of their ‘FLOOD’ EP, NME’s Will Richards wrote: “The band have said that the whole idea of SCALPING revolves around their live show, and the music on ‘FLOOD’ would be equally at home on a festival line-up in between DJs or in a cramped basement alongside hardcore bands, with not a hint of compromise on either end. Get yourself a band like SCALPING who can do both.”