Downward Sign To Pure Noise Records, Re-Release “Downward II” Featuring Two New Songs

Shoegaze, indie rock band Downward, have announced their signing to Pure Noise Records. To celebrate this signing, there will be a re-release of their album ‘Downward II’ in a deluxe physical format. This re-release will also include with two brand new songs, ‘Get Some’ and ‘Drawl’ that are released on streaming services today. On top of that, they will also be pressing the bands debut ‘The Brass Tax’ EP on vinyl, with previously unreleased bonus tracks.

Formed while Richardson and Pugh were still at school, Downward evolved quickly from what they themselves termed a “kind of shitty in a cool way” shoegaze band, into the band who captured themselves on ‘Downward II’—a dark, paranoid and lugubrious reflection of reality that seeps into your bones from the moment opener “Request Made” kicks things off. Beautiful yet simultaneously unsettling, these are songs that, on paper, should offer some kind of soothing comfort, but which instead combine to make you question your entire existence. In a cool way.

Recorded and engineered by Kendal Osborne at The Closet Studios in Tulsa, the album ‘Downward II’ — which was made with guitarist Hunter Senft, who has since left the band — leaves a deep and dark impression that’s hard to shake once you’ve heard it. Poetic yet unabashedly honest, these songs are pure catharsis, subtle yet powerful expressions of self on which form completely mirrors function, guitars exploding like breaking hearts after quiet whispered confessions build up to breaking point.

The band, from Tulsa, Oklahoma, will be heading off on tour in the US through April and May with Soul Blind, and will be in the UK in September touring with Drug Church. All forthcoming and announced Downward live dates are below:

Downward Tour dates:

Supporting Soul Blind

April 14 — Toronto, ON — Hard Luck
April 15 — Detroit, MI — The Sanctuary
April 16 — Chicago, IL — Reggies
April 18 — Denver, CO — Marquis Theater
April 20 — Salt Lake City, UT — Kilby Court
April 21 — Boise, ID — Shrine Social Club
April 23 — Vancouver, BC — The Pearl
April 24 — Seattle, WA — The Vera Project
April 25 — Portland, OR — Polaris Hall
April 27 — Berkeley, CA — Cornerstone
April 28 — Los Angeles, CA — Lodge Room
April 29 — Phoenix, AZ — Rosetta Room
May 1 — Austin, TX — 29th Street Ballroom

May 2 — Dallas, TX — Club Dada
May 3 — Houston, TX — White Oak Music Hall
May 5 — Atlanta, GA — Masquerade
May 7 — Baltimore, MD — Ottobar
May 8 — Philadelphia, PA — Ukie Club
May 9 — New York, NY — Bowery Ballroom
May 10 — Boston, MA — Brighton Music Hall

Supporting Drug Church in the UK

September 4 — Torquay, UK — Bum It Down Festival
September 6 — Leeds, UK — Brudenell Social Club
September 7 — Manchester, UK — Gorilla
September 8 — Glasgow, UK — Slay
September 10 — Bristol, UK — Trinity Centre
September 11 — London, UK — Electric Ballroom