New:Noise Presents Faex Optim, Yoker Moon & April Four
Saturday 2nd August 2025
electronic
Overview
The Tolbooth is excited to announce the next in the New:Noise series – showcasing the best new musical talent from Stirling, the Forth Valley and beyond.
With each night focussing on a specific genre – ranging from indie, electronic, jazz, folk and metal – New:Noise will bring a mix of some of the best and most exciting Scottish acts to Stirling to play with some of the best new local talents. See the full line-up here.
Faex Optim
Warp-esque IDM meets modern organic techno, resulting in a fusion of lush chords and driving beats.
April Four
April Four are Stirling producer/musician Docherty (scientific support dept., Docken Leaf) and Lu Urcola, vocalist and lyricist based in Santiago. They’ve been making music across hemispheres the past couple of years and are making their debut live performances this summer whilst promoting their debut album ‘Amendment’ due out in July 2025.
Their sound merges electronic & acoustic instruments, melodic storytelling, atmospheric soundscapes and insistent beats. They’ve released a series of exclusive tracks on the web3 site drip.haus and have built up an impressive following of over 40k the past year.
Yoker Moon
Yoker Moon experiments playfully, finding beauty in audio degradation and the intersection between glitch and serenity, tranquil and rhythmic. This can be heard and felt in 2025’s ‘Mood Studies: PS-20’ (Waxing Crescent Records), an exploration of a malfunctioning lo-fi home keyboard as a sound source that’s spun out into glacial textures, monolithic drone and horror soundtrack tension from track-to-track. A 2nd 2025 album release, ‘In The Labyrinth Of Your Love’ comes 25th April 2025 via Astral Discs.
Live performances provide a platform for exploring the outer reaches of Yoker Moon’s sonic palette. Expect studio productions to be re-contextualised, delivering altogether new levels of bristling tension and release.
£10 or £5 students/under 25s
Age 14+
