White have unveiled the music video for new single ‘One Night Stand Forever’.
The track is the first single taken from the band’s forthcoming debut album which is due out on April 21st.
The video for the single was shot by photographer Martin D Barker and comes ahead of the band’s European dates which begin in Paris on May 24th.
‘One Night Stand Forever’
After the upbeat “Fight The Feeling,” Glasgow five-piece White plunge into darkness on their latest single “Step Up.” Featured on their forthcoming EP Cuts Don’t Bleed, the song is three minutes of unrelenting dance-punk, with pummelling basslines and angular guitar riffs set against frontman Leo Condie’s whisper-to-shout vocals (“Wake up and start again!”). Think a more creepy LCD Soundsystem and you’re almost there.
“Recreational TV” is the latest track from upcoming EP “Cuts That Don’t Bleed” The track follows on from last month’s “I Liked You Better When You Needed Me”.
It’s an engrossing listen full of nods to ’80s noises – it flickers between calamitous punk abrasions and the swaggering synthery of Talking Heads. It’s an ominous listen with gothic undertones and plenty of dramatic hooks to draw you in in an instant.
Gary Watson, frontman of burgeoning Scottish troupe The Lapelles, features on the single providing backing vocals. Watson who suddenly passed away recently on his 22nd Birthday. Members of Glaswegian acts Lucia Fontaine, Baby Strange, The Ninth Wave, and The Cut also add their voices to the explosive gang chants.
Cuts That Don’t Bleed is released on 10″ vinyl via Dead Beet Records.
Starting out around two years ago, Glasgow’s White have been kicking up a fuss since the release of their debut track ‘Future Pleasures’. Comprised of Leo Condie (singer), Hamish Fingland (guitar), Chris Potter (guitar), Lewis Andrew (bass), Kirstin Lynn (drums), Leo explains how the band first got together.
“I was put in touch with Hamish,” Leo begins. “He was looking for someone to do some singing on a side project he’d been working on, but as soon as we got together we realised we could do something more full on.”
“A more substantial thing!” Hamish continues, “I live with two other people in the band and we write music anyway, so we tried Leo singing on it and decided to make a full band out of it. We then got Kirstin to play the drums, and she added the magic touch!”
After adding Kirstin’s “delicate yet magic touch” (she jokes calling it “the elephant touch”), things have only gotten bigger for them, but the past two years haven’t seemed as fast paced as they may seem.
“We spent some time writing songs and deciding what we would be about before putting ourselves out there, so we were ready for what the world’s got,” they start. “We didn’t tell anyone about the band existing for around seven to eight months. It was a secret for over half a year so it feels like a long time coming.”
After months of preparation and a couple of previous releases, White dropped their track ‘Living Fiction’ on SoundCloud. Following a mention in NME’s Radar feature, Mario, a DJ at Hamburg’s Molotow, got in contact to book them for their first gig after hearing their track and playing it in his set. “It was an awesome night! We felt no pressure,” Leo explains before reminiscing over their Hamburg experience.
“We’d just driven for 20 hours so were were in a strange mind-set anyway. It was all dream life. We’d also rented a warehouse there through Airbnb and it had a sex swing in, and the stage had a window at the back and the front so people in the street could see all!”.
White are due to release their debut EP, Cuts That Don’t Bleed, in autumn and will feature five (“four and half really”, Leo adds) tracks. They’ve already unveiled ‘Step Up’ and ‘I Liked You Better When You Needed Me’, and plan to slowly leak little bits.
I Liked You Better When You Needed Me will feature on WHITE’s debut EP, Cuts That Don’t Bleed, released this Autumn
Nobody really knows who this Scottish act are yet, so The Great Escape is the perfect opportunity to see what all the (industry) fuss is about. There are rumours they used to be a cheesy chart band, but on the strength of their Soundcloud material, which faintly recalls post-punk and Bowie, there’s much more depth to them than naysayers might assume.
WHITE are a hurtling juggernaut of synth stabs, razor-sharp guitars and even sharper attire. A cacophony of pink noise, huge drums, infectious hooks & an explosive frontman channelling Jacques Brel & Nick Cave. The Glasgow five-piece are turning heads with debut song “Living Fiction”, the NME calling it “the kind of full-blown space wig-out Bowie would be proud of”. Unpredictable and thrilling.
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