After their majestic set on the Main Stage at Download Festival last weekend (and performing a ridiculously heavy cover of Metallica's 'Battery'), Sweden's four-man rock sensation and party machine Royal Republic present the official video for new track, 'Like A Lover'.

The band commented on the video: "The video was shot in Berlin but the footage was almost completely lost due to a technical malfunction. However, through the miracle of technically skilled people (and money) we were able to salvage much of the footage. Thanks to the the amazing dancers. Our friend and constant director Leo Åkesson and all the crew who worked tirelessly through the entire night to make this video happen. While the song is a little bit of a departure for us musically, somehow it always felt very natural to us. We hope it does for you too."

The sharp-suited Swedes will return to UK shores for an eleven date headline tour in October. You can read the full list of dates below and tickets are on sale now.

18.10. UK  Norwich - The Waterfront

19.10. UK  Nottingham - Rock City

20.10. UK  Glasgow - The Garage

22.10. UK  Newcastle - University

23.10. UK  Hull - The Welly

24.10. UK  Leeds - Brudenell Social Club

26.10. UK  Manchester - Academy 2

27.10. UK  Birmingham - O2 Academy

28.10. UK  Bristol - Trinity Centre

30.10. UK  Southampton - Engine Rooms

31.10. UK  London - Electric Ballroom

Chile's Föllakzoid recently announced their fourth LP, entitled I, for release on August 1 via Sacred Bones. Now they share the first music from the record, with the transcendental thirteen-minute album closer ‘IIII’. They have also announced UK and European tour dates throughout the Autumn.

Föllakzoid's journey began 10 years ago as a trance experience between childhood friends Domingae & Diego from Santiago, Chile. Heavily informed by the heritage of the ancient music of the Andes, the band has learned to integrate their origins with contemporary sounds and technologies of our times, creating a rich yet minimal electronic-organic atmosphere. I will be their fourth full-length release and third for Sacred Bones, following 2015's III, 2013's II and 2009's eponymous debut.

Föllakzoid grows via depuration, aiming with each record to fill longer spaces of time with fewer and fewer elements. The creative perspective of the band has always been about unlearning the narrative and musical knowledge that shape the physical and digital formats and conceptions available, both visually and musically in order to make a time-space metric structure that dissolves both the author and the narrative paradigms. "We found our sonic and metric identity even more in these songs than in our previous attempts," guitarist and singer Domingæ Garcia-Huidobro explains.

Unlike past Föllakzoid records that were done in single takes with the full band, this record took three months to construct out of more than 60 separate stems - guitars, bass, drums, synthesizers, and vocals, all recorded in isolation. Producer Atom TM, who was not present for recording, was then asked to re-organize the four sequences of stems without any length, structural restrictions or guidelines. Those sequences ultimately became the four long tracks that appear on the album. The result of this was a set of songs where neither the band's, nor the producer's, structural vision primarily shaped the metric or tonal space shifts, but where both were still subliminally present in each of the parts that form the structure and the frequency modulations that guide them.

*N.B. The Leeds and Sheffield dates have changed, see below*

 Föllakzoid tour dates:

Sept 01 UK Brighton Patterns

Sept 02 UK Birmingham Hare and Hounds

Sept 03 UK Glasgow Broadcast

Sept 04 UK Sheffield Picture house social 

Sept 05 UK Manchester White Hotel

Sept 06 UK Leeds Brudenell social club

Sept 07 UK London Dingwalls