Chilean rock outfit Aisles have released another new track in preview of the group’s highly anticipated fifth studio album, to be released during the second half of 2021 through Presagio Records.
Listen to the forthcoming album’s fourth single “Thanks to Kafka” below:
“Thanks to Kafka” draws influences by Lou Reed, the darker side of Porcupine Tree and the melancholy of Radiohead. It is also the first single where guitarist Germán Vergara takes the lead on vocals and marks a stylistic shift in relation to the three previously released singles, “Fast,” “Disobedience,” and “Megalomania.”
The track was recorded at Estudio del Sur, produced and mixed by Angelo Marini and Germán Vergara and mastered by engineer Randy Merrill (Muse, Paul McCartney, Beck, Liam Gallagher).
“‘Thanks to Kafka’ is totally introspective. It is based on the idea of people who did not find answers to their existential problems or who lost the battle of life,” says Vergara. The writer Franz Kafka was the perfect reference to define this internal struggle, because “he speaks from defeat and approaches it from those dark places.”
The group, formed by Germán Vergara, Felipe Candia (drummer), Rodrigo Sepúlveda (guitar), Juan Pablo Gaete (keyboard), Israel Gil (vocalist) and Daniel Concha (bass), has finished recording their fifth studio album, which leaves behind the concept and sound of 2016’s Hawaii in favor of a more direct and powerful sound influenced by bands like Porcupine Tree, Rush and Animals As Leaders.
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