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<\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\nDRAGON WELDING<\/strong> | We Dance Among You<\/em> video<\/p>\n\n\n\n included on pre-save\/add<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n DRAGON WELDING<\/strong> | The Naughty Step <\/em>album artwork<\/p>\n\n\n\n “A masterpiece of individuality and originality, this album is one of the most exciting releases I have encountered for many a year\u201d<\/em><\/strong> also includes the single Dragon Welding<\/strong> is an anagram of Andrew Golding, a multi-instrumentalist and the co-founder of indie noise-pop legends The Wolfhounds. A new album entitled \u2019The Naughty Step\u2019, the first to feature new vocalist Nik Cockshott, is set for release on 28th February. Having teased the song \u2018Up And Away\u2019 from it prior to Xmas, a second single entitled \u2018We Dance Among You\u2019 is out today. \u201cIt\u2019s about those hiding amongst us in plain sight,\u201d <\/em>states Golding. “Profit over the planet every time with a complete disregard for the next generations.” THE NAUGHTY STEP<\/em> An eclectic eponymous 2019 debut album by Dragon Welding had been followed by the all-instrumental ‘Lights Behind The Eyes\u2019 (2021) and \u2018Fictionary\u2019 (2023). The last of these included the songs ‘The Dark’ (feat. Anthony Chapman of Collapsed Lung) and ‘An Angel Not Of This Earth’ (feat. Alice Golding of labelmates The Othyrs), both demonstrating the prowess of a group that has never stood still. Facebook<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0| \u00a0\u00a0Instagram<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" new singleout 30.01.25(Dimple Discs) Bandcamp | video DRAGON WELDING | We Dance Among You video included onTHE NAUGHTY STEPnew…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":26342,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23,2],"tags":[4376],"class_list":["post-26341","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-music-news","category-news","tag-dragon-welding"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26341","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26341"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26341\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26343,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26341\/revisions\/26343"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26342"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
THE NAUGHTY STEP<\/em>
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BLITZED<\/p>\n\n\n\n
UP AND AWAY
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<\/em>\u2018We Dance Among You\u2019 is being promoted with a dynamic ‘stop-start’ animated video by Award winning graphic artist Andy Royston that perfectly captures this insanity. It can be seen HERE<\/a>. Royston has also designed the album cover artwork.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
TRACKLISTING
1 Up And Away
2 The Naughty Step
3 We Dance Among You
4 Hiding Things For Fun
5 It\u2019s Not Tomorrow Forever
6 Start Believing Start Living The Lie
7 Chase The Space
8 Come On Flat Earthling
9 We Are Following Straight Lines
10 Pensive Eco Ponderer<\/p>\n\n\n\n
DRAGON WELDING<\/strong> | Nik Cockshott & Andrew Golding<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Following a show in 2023 where a last-minute replacement vocalist had been drafted in, Cockshott (ex-leftfield indie rockers The Spores and The Keatons) joined Golding and the duo immediately began working in a more consistently song focused direction. This initially resulted in the 2024 single ‘These Are Dangerous Times’, a radical electronic reworking of the very first Dragon Welding release from five years prior that neatly marked the full circle rebirth of the group.
With a consistent voice and solid focus on idiosyncratic and at times dark electronic backing, augmented by an increasing plethora of obtuse instrumentation topped by unpretentious ecologically and socially aware lyrics, this incarnation of Dragon Welding is now ready to exceed all expectations.
Their brand new album, \u2018The Naughty Step’, is set for release on 28th February, with Golding stating that \u201cit is an expansion of the Dragon Welding sound of the previous albums. Having Nik sing on all the tracks gave me an impetus to focus on the lyrics and music, letting him interpret them in his own way. It\u2019s very much \u201880s electronica meets glam rock via paranoia.\u201d
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Discussing his group’s modus operandi, he continues: \u201cDragon Welding is very much about following the noise and seeing where it goes. We never deliberately set out to create a particular sound, but for these songs I was trying to ensure that my contributions on guitar were overlaid onto the sparsity of the sound. I deliberately left gaps in the canvas to fill out later once the music had dried.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n
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