Disgrace have shared a PS1-inspired video for his or her new single ‘Six-Pack’, which invitations listeners into “a room the place all of your wildest wishes can come true”.
The observe is the second to be revealed from the south London band’s upcoming third album, ‘Meals For Worms’, which is about to be launched on February 24.
The pummelling track is pushed by a warped, tumbling guitar riff and battering ram drums, as frontman Charlie Steen sings: “Now you bought a six-pack / Now you bought a pet / Now you bought a tan / Now you bought dad and mom who learn you a bedtime story and each scratch card is a fucking winner.”
“‘Six-Pack’ is actually the alternative of a Room 101; as an alternative it’s a room the place all of your wildest wishes can come true and will likely be showered upon you,” frontman Charlie Steen defined in a press launch. “Be it commodities, self-obsession, meals and B-lister celebrities, it’ll all be there if you would like it to. You’ve carried out time behind bars and now you’re making time in-front of them. It’s time to make up for something you’ve misplaced or wasted, it’s time to get all of it.”
The video, which was directed by Gilbert Bannerman and animated by Cyrus Hayley, includes a recent tackle Napoleon. “The thought was to make a parody of a middle-aged bloke considering he’s a king for going to the health club as soon as,” Bannerman defined. “I learn lots about Napoleon and thought it might be fun to make it about him. The model comes from attempting to make my youth spent taking part in PS1 not fully wasted.”
‘Six-Pack’ follows the discharge of earlier single ‘Fingers Of Metal’, which arrived in November. The video for that observe handled “self-obsession, social media flagellation and loss of life”. On the time, the band additionally introduced a raft of UK and European tour dates for this 12 months – you will discover tickets right here.
Since then, Disgrace have additionally confirmed a brand new sequence of North American gigs, which can kick off in Durham, North Carolina, in Might. The tour will proceed by early June, when it’ll wrap up in New Orleans, Louisiana. Tickets are on sale now and could be bought right here.
Disgrace’s tour dates are as follows:
February 2023
28 – Dublin, Button Manufacturing facility
March 2023
1 – Dublin, Button Manufacturing facility
3 – Glasgow, SWG3
4 – Newcastle, Boiler Store
5 – Leeds, Stylus
7 – Sheffield, Leadmill
8 – Liverpool, Invisible Wind Manufacturing facility
9 – Bristol, SWX
11 – Manchester, New Century
12 – Cardiff, Tramshed
14 – Nantes, Stereolux
15 – Paris, Cabaret Sauvage
16 – Bordeaux, Rock Faculty Barbey
18 – Lisbon, LAV
19 – Madrid, Nazca
20 – Barcelona, La 2 de Apolo
22 – Nimes, Paloma
23 – Milan, Magnolia
24 – Zurich, Plaza
26 – Munich, Technikum
27 – Berlin, Festsaal Kreuzberg
28 – Hamburg, Markthalle
30 – Oslo, Vulkan
31 – Stockholm, Debaser
April 2023
1 – Copenhagen, VEGA
4 – Cologne, Gloria
5 – Brussels, AB
6 – Amsterdam, Melkweg
28 – London, O2 Academy Brixton
Might 2023
10 – Durham, NC, Motorco Music Corridor
12 – Baltimore, MD, Ottobar
13 – Philadelphia, PA, Union Switch
14 – Brooklyn, NY, Warsaw
16 – Boston, MA, The Sinclair
18 – Montreal, QC, Foufounes Électriques
19 – Ottawa, ON, Membership SAW
20 – Toronto, ON, Lee’s Palace
22 – Kalamazoo, MI, Bell’s Eccentric Cafe
24 – Chicago, IL, Thalia Corridor
26 – St Louis, MO, Off Broadway
27 – Lawrence, KS, The Bottleneck
28 – Fayetteville, AR, George’s Majestic Lounge
30 – Dallas, TX, Granada Theater
June 2023
2 – Austin, TX, The Scoot Inn
3 – Houston, TX, White Oak Music Corridor
4 – New Orleans, LA, Toulouse Theatre
In November, Disgrace debuted tracks from ‘Meals For Worms’ throughout a small gig aboard a ship on London’s River Thames. ‘Six-Pack’ was on the setlist that evening, which NME described as being “led by a wailing guitar riff and raucous vitality”. Different new tracks carried out included ‘The Fall Of Paul’, ‘Adderall’, and ‘Yankees’.
Through the gig, Steen advised the group their upcoming third album had been written after their administration observed the writers’ block they’d been experiencing throughout 2021 and set them a problem the place they’d play a set of all-new music on the Brixton Windmill in a fortnight (underneath the pseudonym Nearly Seamus). Pressured to write down rapidly and with out inhibition, the songs that make up the brand new album flowed simply after some time.
