Meet Union Jackals
Union Jackals are set to release a double A side single ‘Press Reset / I Am The Sun’ via Mapped Out Recordings this October, alongside the release of their debut album Universal Screenplay. The single comes as an impressive 6 song bundle, with remixes from Tenth Chapter/Base Mosquito, Dustmotes, What’s His Face and Jackalista.
Created over eight months in a scatter of locations, from bedrooms, annexes, converted stables and corridors, the band are already beginning work on a full visualisation of the album via www.universalscreenplay.com, a mammoth, never-done-before task, where up and coming film and video directors create a visualisation of a track from the album. In the spirit of how the album was made, directors are armed only with their skills, ideas, cunning and a non existent budget. Once the project is complete, the album will be made available as a DVD/CD special packaged limited edition. The first fruits of the project will accompany the single release in October.
Union Jackals are a litter of three from London Town. Initially conceived via a dream involving otherworld abduction, the Jackals are a tactile outfit revolving around the core of Carl Mann, Paul Reeves and Stephen Barnes.
Despite the tight triumvirate at the centre of the Jackals, the band’s ethos is one of inclusion, bringing in musical and visual contributions from those who have crossed their paths, minds or hearts. They were dubbed Union Jackals after this inclusive nature and an obsession with the canine beasts with a sixth sense to scavenge the good and the fresh from the myriad of rotten
This is aptly reflected in their debut album, the quasi-conceptual Universal Screenplay, a rousing, rumbling and at time soothing musical tome, blending psych rock, post punk, shoe gaze guitars, electronic meanderings, prog styling and a sprinkle of sci-fi into a classic guitar pop structure.
Come join the Jackal pack, you will never look back.