In a move that’s increasingly becoming ‘the way things are’ for a lot of bands, Young Knives have decided to gather funding for their forthcoming new album using a Kickstarter crowdfunding campaign.

The album will be entitled Sick Octave and follows on from previous work like Voices Of Animals And Men and Ornaments From The Silver Arcade, but promises to steer the band’s sound in new, interesting ways. It’ll be preceded by an EP, Oh Happiness. The band explains their thinking behind this approach to making records:

“We are working with some righteous chicks and dudes at Kickstarter to bring these records out because, well, its much more fun to do it yourself. We also wanted to be free of record labels and producers making decisions about our music. For some reason when you are working with record labels it’s an assumption that you book into a £500 per day studio and a producer tells you what is wrong with your music and makes it better for you. I know it’s a cliché but after these sessions we have always felt there was no good reason why we couldn’t have done it ourselves like we always used to do. Expensive microphones do sound nice but they don’t make music more exciting, that’s all down to the people making it so we bought an old desk off ebay and a few mics and started recording. Its so much more fun and you can hear it in the tracks. This is a completely undiluted Young Knives record.”

Here’s an intriguing video that’s being shared to kick off the Kickstarter campaign:

At the time of writing, the campaign is £2,731 along towards its goal of £10,000. Pledgers will receive anything from downloads of tracks to a promise that Young Knives will play covers of your choice at your wedding!

Find out more, and make pledges, at the Kickstarter page.