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NEW PAGANS – The Seed The Vessel The Roots and All “

Posted: March 30, 2021 in CLASSIC ALBUMS, MUSIC
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The Seed, The Vessel, The Roots And All, the highly anticipated full-length debut by New Pagans, finally arrived on March 19th. The Belfast band’s biting, noisy and raw brand of post-punk is inspired, striking an impressive balance between biting wit and an understated sweetness. This symmetry can be marked in single “Yellow Room,” as frontwoman Lyndsey McDougall effortlessly flows from pleasant verses into powerful, anthemic choruses and a snarling breakdown. The song lyrically takes inspiration from the iconic feminist novella The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, and pulls from McDougall’s experiences feeling silenced as a new mother, advocating for an increase in parent-and-baby mental health programs in Northern Ireland. 

New Pagans create music that’s not only vivid and engaging but also home to massive riffs and rare dynamics. The bands audible influences range from PJ Harvey to Sonic Youth while lyrically the band deliver protest songs, songs about women, songs about mothers and songs about conversations overheard on Belfast’s public transport systems. Their live shows are also something to behold and have just been the recipients of the best live act at The Northern Island Music Prize 2020. Music is the focus and an important vehicle for the healthy message the band promotes. New Pagans is a proud advocate for women’s rights, visibility and inclusion in the global music industry – an industry dogged with a history of stark gender inequality.

Debut album “The Seed, The Vessel, The Roots and All” out now via Big Scary Monsters.

NEW PAGANS – ” Christian Boys “

Posted: January 20, 2021 in CLASSIC ALBUMS, MUSIC
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For Fans Of of Wolf Alice/The Pixies and with influences ranging from PJ Harvey to Sonic Youth, this awesome Belfast-based band New Pagans blend massive riffs and rare dynamics to challenge past and present issues surrounding relationships, equality, history, and gender; all wrapped up in their alternative, post-punk, indie rock style. Northern Ireland is about as punk as a locale can be. Decades of conflict and political turbulence has resulted in a cultural climate highly receptive to angst. New Pagans, a Belfast-based band fronted by Lyndsey McDougall, channels their country’s history into their propulsive debut album, The Seed, The Vessel, The Roots And All. It has a brooding, gothic palette, and is teeming with reference to saints and sinners, blood and tears, and various strains of nebulous wickedness.

UK indie/post-hardcore band New Pagans are releasing their new LP The Seed, The Vessel, The Roots and All on March 19th via Big Scary Monsters, and the first single is the soaring, fired-up “Christian Boys” which the band says is about a Christian leader that singer Lyndsey McDougall had been having an affair with before he married his virgin bride. “This is shocking but what is more disturbing is that it hadn’t been the first-time similar stories had emerged. When these men were confronted, they all stated that the women were to blame, it had been their fault, they were the sinners and had led the Christian men astray,” the band said.

With some fierce attitude, gritty pop-sensibilities alongside striking vocals, (not to mention a ‘Best Live Act’ at the NI Music Prize!), this band are definitely ones to watch and luckily you don’t have to wait very long to hear some new music!

Taken from the LP The Seed, The Vessel, The Roots and All Out digitally on Friday 19th March 2021 but you can hear the fantastic new single “Christian Boys“