Chosen by Monk
My latest choice sees these Brighton punks asking us to call them on their way home on the first taster of their new EP, due in September, which features re-imagined versions of some of the tracks from their last album, ‘Above The Static’, released in 2022.
Speaking about the EP, which is rather cleverly (!) entitled ‘Below The Static’, the band told us:
For this release, we really wanted to highlight how good the songwriting was. We were stoked with how well the album went down but we really wanted to expose some of the more vulnerable elements and fuck with the format a bit.
To hear such strong female vocals, and having heavy guitar riffs on cellos/violins etc. really got us excited about these songs again. Some of the versions are stripped right back to just a voice and one instrument.
It’s the band like you’ve never heard it before, and really breathes a different life into the songs.
Talking about the lead single, they added:
‘Call Me On The Way Home’ is a really vulnerable, brutal song, so it kind of lends itself to opening right up. This version is just piano and voices, and it really drives home the message of loneliness and the need for people to stick up for one another. Sometimes a song’s message doesn’t need all the trimmings and five guitar lines.
- ‘Below The Static‘ will be released via Pure Noise Records on 13 September.