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Welsh noise troupe Joanna Gruesome have announced their second full album release titled wonderfully as “Peanut Butter” and are previewing the first track taken from it the lead track “Last Year”. The record is reportedly set to feature “hooks, traces of nut and elements of jangle pop, British hardcore punk, atonal music, screaming and drone organs… [it’s] a marriage of radical politics with peanut butter spread”. The first cut, “Last Year”, is “a song about experiencing tragedy and the occult in a water park,”
Songwriter Owen Williams explains their initial plans for the album:
“We tried to make it shorter, more economical and attempted to pack as many hooks and screams in as quickly possible in order to avoid short changing the consumer or wasting her/his/their time. Lyrically it’s more obtuse and surreal but also attempts to mock trad masculine rock themes whenever things do get more lucid. But sometimes musically we embrace them by doing embarrassing guitar solos. I’m not sure how much else I’m at liberty to say but one thing I will disclose is that the record is a response to threats posed by rival groups.”
Once more they’ve enlisted the help of Hookworm’s MJ on production duties. “Peanut Butter” will not be released until 11th May on Fortuna POP!; it follows “Weird Sister”, which won last year’s Welsh Music Prize.
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