London bedroom pop/electronic duo Real Lies have announced the release of their long-awaited sophomore album 'Lad Ash'.
On Lad Ash lyricist Kevin Lee Kharas romanticises ecstasy-fuelled teenage joyrides that set the coordinates for two decades of thrill-seeking hedonism. A wild period that resulted in both the group’s euphoric 2015 debut and the prolonged six-year wait for its follow up.
In places, that euphoria remains – they’ve never sounded higher than on ‘Dream On’ – but generally the mood here is darker, more late-night, club-ready and ruminative. There are songs about losing childhood friends in mysterious circumstances (‘Dolphin Junction’), bandmates (‘Boss Trick’ is a wake for former member Tom Watson), childhood innocence (‘An Oral History Of My First Kiss’) and huge swathes of memory (‘The Carousel’). As the title implies, Lad Ash is a coming-of-age album that draws out the beauty and longing of the young British male experience by reframing it through an elegiac, at times almost gothic, lens.
In a press release, speaking about he new single/video Kharas said: “Oral History” is a song about girls with Saturday jobs and boys with nothing to do finding magic in each other, in boring places with boring people who have cruel and stupid ideas about anything or anyone who’s different. The video is meant to reflect that sense of being young and stuck somewhere, waiting for something to happen."
Check out the album's tracklist and watch the video for "An Oral History Of My First Kiss", below.
Lad Ash Tracklist:
01. Ethos
02. Boss Trick
03. An Oral History Of My First Kiss
04. Dream On
05. Late Arcades
06. Thameslink Tryst
07. Dolphin Junction
08. All Good Dogs
09. Since I
10. The Carousel
12. DiCaprio
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