Coming out next week on Mute Records in North America will be Liminal, the moody, haunting debut album by The Acid (it’s already out in the UK/Europe via the Infectious Music label.)

The difficult to describe trio create a genre-less sound consisting of elements drawn from EDM, noises from nature and city life, there are shimmering guitar layers, stretched out drones and delicate heartbeat-like electronic pulses. The group consists of Steve Nalepa, an LA-based musician/producer and professor of musicology (who once lost an awful lot of money on Are You Smarter Than a 5th Grader?); Grammy-nominated DJ and producer Adam Freeland (”We Want Your Soul”) and LA-based Aussie artist/producer Ry X (Berlin EP, Howling) who sings and also co-directs their videos.

Because of the globe-trotting nature of their careers, they recorded song sketches on iPhones while collaborating on the album. The Acid themselves weren’t even sure exactly what they were coming up with. As vocalist Ry tells it:

“It’s like painting before you know what you are painting. You’re stuck in the process before you’ve got an idea of what you’re making. The beauty of that is complete freedom.”

Later this summer The Acid will be performing at both the Longitude and Latitude festivals. In fact, they’re going to be touring worldwide pretty much through November. Liminal comes out in North America on July 14.

The video for “Fame” was co-directed by Ry X and The Directors Bureau’s Dugan O’Neal. The video features dancers/choreographers WIFE.
 

The gorgeous “Basic Instinct” as heard on the season premiere last week of Under the Dome.