Formed in late 2019, The Higher Line‘s members have long-orbited London’s noise and math rock worlds, playing and recording in the likes of Cherry But No Cake, Company Training, Awkward Body, Man Matters and Sverker Clern. The Higher Line have now released their debut full length, Counterlife, via Cruel Nature Records, the album was recorded live in February 2024 by Wayne Adams at Bear Bites Horse studio and mastered by Dominic Clare at Declared Sound. Counterlife remains on a similar thematic tangent to their debut EP, Antithetic, coursing darker corners of the human condition; the death of a friend; observations on the degrading realities of poverty; and rhetorical questions on the comforts of ignorance in an age of overwhelming knowledge. Musically, The Higher Line draws ins...