The Comet is Coming

Live & Signing

Monday, 9th December 2019

Rough Trade East

Doors 6:00pm
On-stage 7:00pm
Signing after show
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The Comet is Coming will be live in-store at Rough Trade EAST, celebrating their incredible LP 'Trust In The Lifeforce Of The Deep Mystery', a Rough Trade Album Of The Year, and their new EP 'The Afterlife', out on December 6th.

Gain entry by purchasing 'The Afterlife' EP on 12" or CD, or 'Trust In The Lifeforce Of The Deep Mystery' on Rough Trade Exclusive vinyl LP+, standard vinyl LP or CD.

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TIMES:

6.00pm | Doors + Album/ Ticket collection

7.00pm | Live on-stage

7.45pm | Album signing

*Please note these times are subject to change.

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The Comet is Coming to Destroy Illusions! The Comet is Coming to Summon The Fire! The Comet is Coming to party like it’s after the end of the World!

In the aftermath of the current apocalypse what sounds remain? Who will lead us to the Afterlife? Who will teach us to Trust in the Lifeforce of the Deep Mystery?

It is after the end of the world, the stage is a spacecraft, the mic is an accelerator, brace yourself for The Comet is Coming.

As the second decade of the 21st century grinds towards its conclusion, it would be too easy to claim that on their second album Trust In The Life Force Of The Deep Mystery, the Mercury Music Prize-shortlisted futurist jazz voyagers The Comet Is Coming are making music for these crisis times of chaos and mass meltdown. After all, when hasn’t this been the case? No. Instead theirs is a broader musical vision that pans out to see the bigger picture and reminds us we humans are but molecules collected into matter. In such moments of epiphany hope is to be found. Hope of mining deeper truths. Art is their medium and the message is in the music.

“There are going to be some massive shifts in our own lifetime as life begins to transcend biology,” explains drummer Betamax. “Global warming, A.I., trips to Mars, brain-computer fusion. We are becoming cyborgs, so let’s at least find some essential truths and inner peace so we can make wise decisions.”

The Comet Is Coming are here to apply a salve to the wounds of the world and offer succour to the spiritually deprived. To do so they have delved deep into their collective subconscious during months of studio experimentation to bring back these souvenirs of astral and auditory travel. “If we place art as the honest unfolding of the imagination,” elaborates keyboardist Danalogue, “and the imagination as being analogous to the source of all universal creativity, in creating this album we are presenting our truths, as individuals and as a collective, that contain symbols and narratives of their own.”

Their findings on their psychedelic odyssey can be condensed into some simple philosophies. The Life Force Of The Deep Mystery, the band say, concerns “finding meaning in that which you cannot grasp”, it considers “truth in the existence of a primordial energy”. It asks “What does it mean to be human?”