Beautiful Distortion

Beautiful Distortion is the eleventh^[a] album by Dutch rock band the Gathering. It was released on 29 April 2022 via the Gathering's imprint Psychonaut Records. It is their first full-length album in over nine years, after the band took an hiatus in 2014. It is also the first studio album to feature the band's founding bassist Hugo Prinsen Geerligs since their 2003 effort Souvenirs. He replaced Marjolein Kooijman, who played bass for the band between 2004 and 2014.

Beautiful Distortion
Studio album by the Gathering
Released	29 April 2022
Genre	Alternative rock
Length	48:16
Label	Psychonaut
Producer	Attie Bauw
The Gathering chronology
Afterwords (2013) Beautiful Distortion (2022) Interference (2022)
Singles from Beautiful Distortion
"In Colour" Released: 13 October 2021[1] "We Rise" Released: 9 February 2022[2]

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
Sputnikmusic	4.0/5.0[3]

Background

The band had first announced that they were recording an album in February 2021, when they had shared pictures from inside the studio.^[4]

Attie Bauw, the producer of this album, had also previously produced the Gathering's albums How to Measure a Planet? and Home.^[5][6]

The album's first single, "In Colour", was released on 13 October 2021.^[1] This was followed by their second single "We Rise", released via a music video on 9 February 2022.^[7][2] At 4:33, the music video is shorter than the "single edit" version of the song posted on their Bandcamp page.^[8]

On the same day of Beautiful Distortion's release, an EP titled Interference, is also being released, which is meant as a companion piece to the album. A music video for the EP's song "Stronger" was released in December 2021.^[9]

Following the release, the Gathering will perform concerts for AutoReverse: 30th Anniversary Tour, which includes four dates in the Netherlands, three in Mexico, and one each in Colombia, Bolivia, Chile and Brazil.^[10]

Track listing

No.	Title	Length
1.	"In Colour"	5:49
2.	"When We Fall"	5:23
3.	"Grounded"	6:52
4.	"We Rise"	6:47
5.	"Black Is Magnified"	6:19
6.	"Weightless"	5:50
7.	"Pulse of Life"	6:44
8.	"On Delay"	4:30

Personnel

The Gathering

• Silje Wergeland – vocals
• Frank Boeijen – keyboards and piano
• Hugo Prinsen Geerligs – bass, guitar, keyboards, piano, percussion
• René Rutten – guitars, keyboards, percussion
• Hans Rutten – drums, percussion^[11]

Production

• Attie Bauw – production
• Studio Captain – artwork^[11]
• Maor Appelbaum – mastering^[12]

Notes

1. It is reported here as their 11th album because the band consider it as such, with Afterwords being more like an EP. States drummer Hans Rutten, "We all see Disclosure as our last studio album, and Afterwords was more or less a Disclosure after-party... It's a mini album, maybe, but it's a long album. But that said, we don't see it as a full-length album of The Gathering, more as sort of an EP kind of thing."^[1]