Album artwork for Interzone by The Vacant Lots

Interzone is the third full-length from Brooklyn, NYC post-punk duo The Vacant Lots. Following its release last summer and quick sell-out, the LP is now getting a second pressing. Picking up high praise from the likes of Iggy Pop, BBC 6Music, Henry Rollins, Loud & Quiet, Uncut, Brooklyn Vegan, Line of Best Fit and countless others, ‘Interzone’ is a genre-blending synthesis of dance and psych that’s made for secluded listeners and all-night partygoers.

Uninhibited by the limitations of two people and continuing their mission of “minimal means maximum effect,” The Vacant Lots’ Jared Artaud and Brian MacFadyen create an industrial amalgam of icy electronics and cold beats with detached vocals and hard-hitting guitars. Interzone's trance-like opener Endless Rain and the kinetic Krautrock stomper Into The Depths are followed by scintillating dark disco anthems Rescue and Exit.

Side 2 kicks off with 80’s synth-pop track Fracture and haunting after-hours minimal wave Payoff, while Station and album closer Party's Over deal with disillusionment and conquering one’s indifference to make real change. The album creates order from chaos and delves into escapism, isolation, relationship conflicts, and decay. With nods to William S. Burroughs and Joy Division’s song of the same name, “Interzone is like existing between two zones,” Jared says. “Interzone doesn't mean one thing. It can mean different things to different people depending on their interpretation. Working on this album was a constant struggle reconciling internal conflicts with all that’s going on externally in the world. Interzone, in one word, is duality.”

The album was engineered by Ted Young (Rolling Stones, Sonic Youth, Kurt Vile), mixed by Maurizio Baggio (The Soft Moon, Merchandise, Boy Harsher), mastered by Gianni Peri and is housed in striking artwork by long-term collaborator Ivan Leichti. The Vacant Lots have released singles with Mexican Summer and Reverberation Appreciation Society, collaborated on their debut album 'Departure' with Spacemen 3’s Sonic Boom, their second album 'Endless Night' with Alan Vega, and most recently on their two EPs, 'Berlin' and 'Exit', with Brian Jonestown Massacre’s Anton Newcombe at his studio in Berlin. The group has toured with Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, Suicide, Brian Jonestown Massacre, Dean Wareham (Galaxie 500), The Dandy Warhols and Spectrum.

Includes bonus7” featuring a remix of Into The Depths by darkwave trailblazer Cold Cave.

The Vacant Lots

Interzone

Fuzz Club
Album artwork for Interzone by The Vacant Lots
LP

£22.99

Indies Only LP with Bonus remix 7"

Ultraclear with Black Splatter

Released 12/03/2021Catalogue Number

FC132V12R

Learn more
The Vacant Lots

Interzone

Fuzz Club
Album artwork for Interzone by The Vacant Lots
LP

£22.99

Indies Only LP with Bonus remix 7"

Ultraclear with Black Splatter

Released 12/03/2021Catalogue Number

FC132V12R

Learn more

Interzone is the third full-length from Brooklyn, NYC post-punk duo The Vacant Lots. Following its release last summer and quick sell-out, the LP is now getting a second pressing. Picking up high praise from the likes of Iggy Pop, BBC 6Music, Henry Rollins, Loud & Quiet, Uncut, Brooklyn Vegan, Line of Best Fit and countless others, ‘Interzone’ is a genre-blending synthesis of dance and psych that’s made for secluded listeners and all-night partygoers.

Uninhibited by the limitations of two people and continuing their mission of “minimal means maximum effect,” The Vacant Lots’ Jared Artaud and Brian MacFadyen create an industrial amalgam of icy electronics and cold beats with detached vocals and hard-hitting guitars. Interzone's trance-like opener Endless Rain and the kinetic Krautrock stomper Into The Depths are followed by scintillating dark disco anthems Rescue and Exit.

Side 2 kicks off with 80’s synth-pop track Fracture and haunting after-hours minimal wave Payoff, while Station and album closer Party's Over deal with disillusionment and conquering one’s indifference to make real change. The album creates order from chaos and delves into escapism, isolation, relationship conflicts, and decay. With nods to William S. Burroughs and Joy Division’s song of the same name, “Interzone is like existing between two zones,” Jared says. “Interzone doesn't mean one thing. It can mean different things to different people depending on their interpretation. Working on this album was a constant struggle reconciling internal conflicts with all that’s going on externally in the world. Interzone, in one word, is duality.”

The album was engineered by Ted Young (Rolling Stones, Sonic Youth, Kurt Vile), mixed by Maurizio Baggio (The Soft Moon, Merchandise, Boy Harsher), mastered by Gianni Peri and is housed in striking artwork by long-term collaborator Ivan Leichti. The Vacant Lots have released singles with Mexican Summer and Reverberation Appreciation Society, collaborated on their debut album 'Departure' with Spacemen 3’s Sonic Boom, their second album 'Endless Night' with Alan Vega, and most recently on their two EPs, 'Berlin' and 'Exit', with Brian Jonestown Massacre’s Anton Newcombe at his studio in Berlin. The group has toured with Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, Suicide, Brian Jonestown Massacre, Dean Wareham (Galaxie 500), The Dandy Warhols and Spectrum.

Includes bonus7” featuring a remix of Into The Depths by darkwave trailblazer Cold Cave.