Chosen by Monk
The post-rockers return with an expanded line-up and their first new music in seven years, coupled with the announcement of a pair of summer festival dates:
Speaking about the band’s reformation, and newly-expaned line-up, guitarist and vocalist Andrew Groves told us:
When we disbanded the band in 2018, it was always with the understanding that we could return one day under better circumstances.
Founding drummer Daryl Atkins and myself had long been looking for a way to continue creating together, after him needing to leave Arcane Roots in 2015. Our busy work schedules had other plans however and it wasn’t until a chance meeting with Icelandic composer Bjarni Biering, after relocating to Iceland in 2019, that we struck upon the unlikely songwriting partnership that we have today.
Within a short time we felt we had something to share and began to set the stage to see if this could become the supergroup we’d all dreamed of.
We’re still exploring that to this day, that excitement & challenge commands absolutely everything we do and it feels completely limitless right now.
Arcane Roots have also been confirmed to appear at the 2000trees Festival – where they will headline the Axiom stage on the Friday night (10 July) and then play a stripped back second set on the Forest stage the following day (Saturday 11 July). They will also play the ArcTanGent festival on Friday 20 August.
Speaking about their reasons to play the events, Groves explained:
f you were going to ask me where I would want to present such a pivotal event in our lives, 2000 Trees and ATG would be the immediate retort. They have always served as both a source of raucous celebration and loving home-away-from-home for us.
We’ve always given our all to make Arcane Roots the very best it could be and now this rebirth feels like we’ve only just scratched the surface. There is nowhere more fitting for us to share our new findings with.