London garage rock/post punk/alt band Sorry have the video for their new single "Let The Lights On".
The song is taken from the forthcoming album 'Anywhere But Here', set to arrive on October 7th via Domino. Pre-order your copy here.
London once again features as a prominent character on Sorry’s second album. ’If our first version of London in 925 was innocent and fresh-faced, then this is rougher around the edges. It's a much more haggard place,’ Louis says. Earwigged conversations, text messages, snatched speech recorded underground; the city’s discarded words fed into the lyrics which map the experience of urban life on a young and frustrated generation. Produced alongside Portishead’s Adrian Utley in Bristol, the result is an angular, acerbic, bittersweet triumph.
London post punk band High Vis have premiere their new single "Blending".
The song serves as the title track of their their forthcoming sophomore album 'Blending', set to be released on September 9h via DAIS Records. Pre-order your copy here.
High Vis have exploded onto the DIY scene, earning a devoted following for their intense live shows and immediate lyrics that tackle themes from class politics to the challenges of everyday life. While their passion of hardcore stokes their fire, its post-punk’s textures and moods that line their sonic adventurousness, which suggests the members of High Vis are never going to be confined by any notion of what they should or shouldn’t be playing.
They’ve created their own signature sound of aggressive, gripping, artful punk that’s as tough as any hardcore record yet sonically opens beyond the parameters of any genre or scene. And as the title of their highly anticipated new album suggests, Blending is about bringing all these new strands and elements into what the band are about at their core to forge something entirely new. Alongside longstanding favourites such as Fugazi and Echo and The Bunnymen; Ride and even Flock Of Seagulls were shared reference points as the band worked on the album together.
Blending has a more specific meaning that links to front person Graham Sayle’s lyrics too, he explains, “The message of the album is you’re not who you’re told you are,” Sayle summarises. “You’re not your class background. Whatever it is, you’re not that. Don’t resign yourself to thinking you can’t be this and you can’t be that.”
Northern Irish rockers Silent Running will release ‘Follow The Light’ their fourth studio album – but the first for thirty years! – on 22 July 2022.
They are marking their 40th anniversary this year, having been largely inactive since 1989. At the height of their career, the band toured with the likes of Talk Talk, Simple Minds, John Foxx and Robert Palmer and appeared on iconic music TV show The Tube. Now original members of the band Richard Collett (bass), Peter Gamble (vocals) and Tony Scott (guitars) have reunited, with Gary Kirby on drums and Paul Rocks on keyboards. An album track appropriately named ‘Darkest Hour’ will raise money for the Red Cross effort in Ukraine, with the band donating all proceeds.
The band were originally signed to EMI and released their debut album ‘Shades of Liberty’ in 1984. For the follow up to that record, Silent Running then signed with Atlantic Records (the first Irish band to do so) and released ‘Walk on Fire’ in 1987 and ‘Deep’ in 1989. After that third album, the band folded for a full 30 years. In 2019, having got together again to play a few songs at a band member’s wife’s birthday, Silent Running booked a gig at Belfast’s Voodoo. Expectations of anything other than having some fun playing a full live set again, in truth, were low. However, a Facebook group of fans couldn’t believe that the band were back in business again and ensured that the show was a total sell out, with many traveling in for what was a magical night. A live concert CD of the show was released in 2020.
Late in 2019, Silent Running released the single ‘Lost Boy’, which had been debuted at the Voodoo show, but now it’s time to reveal the full album. ‘Follow The Light’ was recorded at Novatech in Belfast; the same studio in which they recorded the demos for the 80s albums. Lead singer and songwriter Peter Gamble says, “I feel that ‘Follow the Light’ is Silent Running's best album to date with the best and most consistent songs, and the band's arrangements of the songs are really strong. My favourites of the songs I wrote in the 80s were the more collaborative efforts we wrote together as a band; songs like ‘Emotional Warfare’, so it has felt really good to produce together what we believe is a special album”.
‘Follow The Light’ is packed with songs that spark with an undeniable energy, and there is a real sense of joy and celebration to the whole set. Silent Running have indeed been silent for three decades but in this, their fourth, they are ready to bring the noise.
Follow The LightTracklisting:
1. Live Right Now 2. Darkest Hour 3. Beyond Your Wildest Dreams 4. Follow The Light 5. Love Is A Bloodsport 6. Golden Days 7. Swansong 8. Shadowland 9. Lost Boy 10. Wildfire 11. Tonight This World Belongs To Me
Watch the video for their latest single "Darkest Hour" below.
