THE BLINDERS have announced that their new album, Fantasies Of A Stay At Home Psychopath, will be released on 8 May via Modern Sky UK.
The band have also shared the album’s first single, Circle Song, which is a dark blues-waltz underpinned by propulsive bass and evocatively prosaic lyricism. The track straddles the lines between ode and lament while addressing life’s confusing crossroads. The accompanying video cuts between the band performing and wandering the atmospherically bleak landscape of the Peak District.
Circle Song is the first track to be taken from their upcoming album, which was recorded at Manchester’s Eve Studios alongside producer Rob Ellis (PJ Harvey, Anna Calvi), and mixed by Adrian Bushby (Foo Fighters, Muse).
The follow-up to their critically acclaimed debut album, Columbia, released in 2018, the album explores existential despair, mental health and society’s ills in a time of planetary crisis, and is both a riposte to, and commentary on, the rise of populist ideology.
Delivering a blistering collection of powerful tracks, Fantasies Of A Stay At Home Psychopath is imbued with the visceral energy of IDLES, the twisted melodies of solo-era Lennon and the darkness of the Bad Seeds.
Following the album’s release, the band will head out on a run of intimate dates, with shows in Edinburgh, Hull, London and Southampton, between slots at festivals including Live At Leeds, Sound City, Hit The North and Sonic Wave, with much more to be announced. Full dates and information can be found below:
MAY TOUR DATES
1st – Live At Leeds Festival, Leeds
2nd – Sound City, Liverpool
3rd – Hit The North Festival, Newcastle
19th – Caves, Edinburgh
20th – Welly Club, Hull
21st – 100 Club, London
22nd – Joiners, Southampton
23rd – O2 Academy 2, Leicester
24th – Sonic Wave Festival, Birmingham
Tickets will go on sale at 10am on Monday 17th February, and will be available here: theblindersofficial.com
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