Slowcoaches are premiering their new video, Living Out,
The track is the latest song to be lifted from the bands debut album, Nothing Gives, which is out now .
Talking about the video, frontwoman Heather Perkins the song is about “being skint, and depressed and having no motivation. Being stuck at a desk or behind a bar and feeling like there must be more out there. It’s about getting out of work and going to get smashed and waking up and dragging yourself back in to it and not giving anything or taking anything and just existing in an endless vacuum that you can’t step out of.”
Living Out is taken from our debut out, Nothing Gives.
Out now on Leisure + District.
London based The Slowcoaches (who are releasing their next album Nothing Gives this weekend) were once described by NME as “Thee Oh Sees, but with even bigger balls.” And although the comparison makes sense in terms of genre–both fall under the loose category of “garage rock”–it doesn’t particularly make sense otherwise, as The Slowcoaches have pulled together a sound that is much more of a callback to punk bands like X (with a tinge of pop) than it is to the post-punk bands that came after. The music is fast and loud, the vocals unwavering and aggressive, and the energy will make you want to get off your feet no matter where you are. This London trio Slowcoaches finally bring their debut album into the world. The fast, furious, clatteringly majestic and downright fun ‘Nothing Gives’ is released via Leisure and District. Each track is a fireball of fuzz and sweet female vocals – think a mix of The Flatmates, Ramones, 53rd and 3rd Records and Shop Assistants. It’s instant, record that you will play twenty times a day. .
Slowcoaches‘ songs are like riots that begin, escalate, and end in under three minutes. Their self-described “slack metal” is the kind of catchy, high-octane music that whips up the give-no-shits of early punk, grunge’s heavy-handed nonchalance, and the lead guitar and vocal melodies of 90s indie. Put simply: they wail, as Wayne Campbell and Garth Algar would say.
We’re premiering the video below, which was conceptualised and created by Maria Cecilia Tedemalm. Here’s what vocalist/guitarist Heather has to say about it:
“Maria and I did the cake stuff on Valentine’s day. I walked in to this cake shop and asked for 2 cans of whipped cream and the cake and they looked at me and I had to be like ‘yeah it’s the one with my face on it’. I bet they wondered what sort of fucked up Valentines day I was planning out. I ate the whole cake anyway. I had to keep stopping to spew it out but I did it. Maria has a really dark twisted imagination and a wicked sense of humour and she was like really encouraging me. When she suggested the idea for this video initially it was just so perfect because part of the song is about trying to lose my old head; the dark bit of my head. It was actually a really good process to go through. Eating that cake. It felt kind of like cathartic.”
Ex Head from Slowcoaches forthcoming debut album Nothing Gives. Download at slowcoaches.bandcamp.com
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