New Entry: Loose Fit Drop New Single "Stupid Drama"

Sydney no wave/post punk quartet Loose Fit have dropped their new single "Stupid Drama".

The song is taken from their upcoming new album 'Social Graces', set to arrive on April 26 through FatCat Records. Pre-order your copy here.

Speaking about it, band member Anna Langdon says: "The song has a cool repetitive minimal funk thing going on reminiscent of Use No Hooks and Pylon, but the vocals are sharp, dry and fiery, sometimes eroding into an acerbic Sleaford Mods style bored and anguished drawl. It's a bratty, snotty, foot-stomping, sax-screeching romp through the types of absurd, mundane predicaments that sometimes grow so big they seem to generate their own gravitational fields. I always feel like I'm gasping for air in this song, which fits well with the theme of being completely fed-up and trying to laugh about it."

Stream it below. 

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Loose Fit Announce New LP 'Social Graces', Stream Title Track

Sydney no wave/post punk quartet Loose Fit have announced the release of their new studio album 'Social Graces'.

Set for release on April 26 through FatCat Records, the record features 11 tracks of rhythmically-taut, anxiety-driven post-punk featuring the distinctive vocal chants of singer/sax player Anna Langdon. Pre-order your copy here.

Building on the success of their self-titled EP, the album expands the Loose Fit sound-world to include a dub-influenced march through social media bleakness, ACR-style exercises in rhythm and tension, and an atmospheric coda featuring eerie trumpet from drummer Kaylene Milner. It also features a number of the band’s concise, propulsive bangers including the title track and previous single ‘Exhale

Social Graces is a journey through familiar deeply human themes as well as sharp observations of contemporary absurdity. Lyrics about love, hope, fear, loss, and pain are woven amongst visual depictions of acquisition culture, weather patterns, digital life, adventures in wild landscapes, deep introspection, parties and mundane daily experiences.

“I think the album is a truthful document of a weird time. Covid-era has sucked (of course), but did give us time to explore new sounds and ways of working. It was a shit time to be a band, but it was great to have a vessel to channel all our anxieties and pent-up energy into. I think the album has all that fucked-up 2020/2021 energy in it.”, Bassist Richard Martin says.

New single - also called ‘Social Graces’ - is a frantic 2’29” blast of nervy punk. The song was written in 2020 inspired by the nervous tension in the air after the initial months of covid-induced house arrest. People were finally allowed to meet in the federally sanctioned groups of 5, but found themselves too nervous to touch each other for fear of infection and felt awkward in communication. There was a sense of relearning how to be together.

It comes with a video, directed by Solomon Thomas, that riffs off the song’s themes of discomfort and social anxiety. Awkwardly miming in front of vintage painted stage backdrops, the band are transformed one-by-one into grotesquely-masked characters who try and fail to find the social “normal”.

Check out the album's tracklist and watch the video for "Social Graces" below. 

Social Graces Tracklist:

01. Social Graces

02. Cool Change

03. Stupid Drama

04. Cut Your Teeth

05. Exhale

06. Mosquito

07. Colours For The Walls

08. Best Face Forward

09. On Land

10. Enemies

11. Potential Things

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Watch: Loose Fit Premiere New Single/Video "Exhale"

Sydney no wave/post punk quartet Loose Fit have premiered the video for their new single "Exhale".

The song is out today (November 9) through FatCat Records. Get it here.

Speaking about it, singer Anna Langdon says: "'Exhale' has a sense of momentum musically which is perfect for the theme of being dragged or pulled or drifting away from something and towards something else. I think the song communicates a tension between letting go, falling deeply into desire, into passion, and trying to maintain steadiness in the process. I think it's about an inner struggle for sure."

Watch/listen below.

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Watch: Loose Fit Premiere New Single/Video "Black Water"

Sydney no wave/post punk quartet Loose Fit have premiered the video for their new single "Black Water".

The song is taken from their forthcoming self-titled EP, set for release through FatCat Records on April 3. Pre-order it here.

The band change course with Black Water. It's a track that cuts a fearful figure, Langdon cataloguing persistent, unknowable anxieties, singing how they're, “with you in the car park, with you in the diner, with you in the snack aisle, with you in the elevator.”

Take a listen below.

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New Entry: Loose Fit Unveil Debut Single "Pull The Lever"

Sydney no wave/post punk quartet Loose Fit have unveiled their catchy debut single "Pull The Lever".

Taken from the forthcoming self-titled EP, set for release through FatCat Records on April 3, "Pull The Lever" wastes no time in marking the band's intent. A purposeful, broad-shouldered, looping bass motif is set front-and-centre against wiry guitar chuntering and scatter-gun percussion. Lead singer Anna Langdon marries charismatic, pitch- black vocals to lyrics that mix oblique imagery with emotionally powerful subject matter. Pre-order it here.

The band’s rhythm-heavy sound contains echoes of UK post-punk titans such as Public Image Ltd, Maximum Joy and A Certain Ratio. They’re also fans of the US No Wave scene, especially the paint-stripper guitar of James Chance and the pop exuberance of Bush Tetras. Other pop/art heroes are Talking Heads and the B-52’s, while contemporary inspirations include Exploded View, The Native Cats, Raime and Nisennenmondai. Closer to home Loose Fit are enthusiastic devotees of their local music scene, gladly sharing stages with favourites like Exek, Tropical Fuck Storm, Party Dozen, Pinch Points and Negative Gears.

Take a listen below.

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