LA Synth Punk Legends New Collapse Discover Long Lost Debut Album Masters

Rocketing back from the void, Los Angeles synth- punk legends New Collapse are shocking fans with the discovery of their long lost debut full length record after the master tapes were saved from doom at the very last moment.

New Collapse hit the Los Angeles underground with the impact of a radioactive comet in 2001 with acidic neon synth punk seeping into the masses, infecting anyone who heard their sonic neon terror. Rich Bitch’s relentless ballistic drumming created a backbone of constantly shifting vertebrae from which Quinn Brayton launched kamikaze synth assaults while Sophya Marlene led the charge, adding raw glamour to unbridled howls. Sophya managed to take cabaret theatrics to animalistic outer limits where even the bravest feared to tread to a soundtrack of merciless mania. While New Collapse carried the torch of LA synth-punk luminaries such as Screamers and Nervous Gender, they brutally carved their own name into the shrieking burbling pantheon. But the primal savagery and teeming white hot electricity were balanced too precariously to survive. In 2007, on the cusp of an eagerly- awaited and imminent debut record, New Collapse were suddenly no more.

While rabid fans continued frothing at the mouth with rumors of a posthumous album release, the devastating truth was revealed: the studio master tapes were lost. It became apparent that the synth punk trio had finally vibrated to a frequency beyond our plane of existence, too wild to contain with something as earthly as a record. For the next decade, New Collapse were often referenced wistfully around Los Angeles, their album paralleling Jodorowsky’s Dune in its frustrating proximity to realization and eventual eternal divorce from our reality. But then, as simply as they had disappeared, the masters were discovered, albeit in a ravaged state. Due to improper storage and harsh weather conditions, the recordings were pretty much regarded as D.O.A. But New Collapse’s producer Manny Nieto was unwilling to allow the void to claim the recordings a second time. After painstakingly baking the tapes for 16 hours, he was able to salvage 10 of the 18 songs New Collapse had recorded.

The resurrection of the New Collapse recordings offers a unique polaroid of the band at their most frantic and urgent, viciously hammering spiritual catharsis in ultraviolent mysticism. New Collapse is still no more but are currently looking for a home for their posthumous release. A final shriek separated from time and space. Record labels interested in releasing this singular piece of Los Angeles synth punk history should contact SophyaMarlene@Gmail.com