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Sleaford Mods have announced their return with details of new album ‘UK Grim’. Listen to the title track below, as well as our interview with frontman Jason Williamson.
The continuation of the famous album “Spare Ribs” from the Nottingham duo, 2021 is due out in March, and the first taster of the record will arrive in the form of an edgy dance-punk title track, painting a bleak picture of post-COVID Britain. , accompanied by an appropriately merciless video from fellow Cold War politician Steve.
“The last thing we wanted to do was another male video where it was just me and Andrew [Fearn, multi—instrumentalist] we just shake our heads,” Williamson told NME. “We just thought, ‘What about Cold War Steve?’ I contacted him because I know him a little bit. A few years ago we organized a mini-exhibition of my words written on cardboard boxes, torn and placed under some of his works. We asked him to make a video and he was over the moon with happiness – we couldn’t believe it.
“I try to refrain from texting him because I don’t want to blow too much smoke up his ass and it just turns people off!”
UK Grim will be Sleaford Mods’ seventh album as a duo (but 12th if you count earlier rarities).
“The album was written during an event that wasn’t an event, which was COVID, and I was getting more and more angry at myself and everyone else,” Williamson said. “The energy of it is much more aggressive.”
Williamson described ‘UK Grim’ as a perfectly natural successor to ‘Spare Ribs’ – an album he said “still surprises me” due to its success, critical response and top five chart success.
“We knew the album was really good, but after six albums you don’t expect that kind of reception,” he said. “Will the zeitgeist strike again? I do not think so; we’re just doing our thing again. This was not supported by anything except perhaps the ultra-decline of all reason in public policy. Maybe in that sense ‘UK Grim’ can resonate with people who have lost their minds, with people who have to put up with these fucking idiots.”
Speaking about how the political landscape in the UK has only worsened since they covered the scene on their previous six albums, Williamson said: “We’re definitely not going to get justice, nothing’s going to change, the system’s not going to change; you will still have anarchists in your bedroom opposed to a world that is much bigger than them.”
After frequently speaking out against gangs for “unwittingly appropriating the voice of the working class” – and a previous high-profile feud with PREZEN – ‘UK Grim’ drops hip-hop ‘DIWhy’ aimed at ‘post-punk scum’. and the “flashy” actions that happened after the Sleaford Mods.
Asked if he expected a negative reaction to the song, Williamson said: “I don’t think there will be. People have been drinking and I can’t see them coming at me again—they’re worn out and I’m worn out. The battlefield is deserted and all we can see now are a few swords and severed limbs.
“These people are considered a species Spartans for musical social justice and a kind of moral superiority. They are just as bad as everyone else. I didn’t come to this game to sit in the upper room of the pub forever and play with the four. If they got a little mad because we traveled through their stage and knocked them to death – then what can you do? It’s a damn life.”
Williamson told NME that he often notices the duo’s influence on many bands after them, but “most of the time I don’t appreciate it”.
“I tried to tell myself that not appreciating it doesn’t make it a) bad or b) that they’re all jerks,” he admitted. “They just do something because they want to do it and they are influenced by people. I still can’t get over the fact that people are under our influence, unless of course I’m really passionate about it.
He continued: “To a certain extent, there’s a time and a place to criticize people, but there’s also a time and a place to think, ‘Well, they’re just doing what I’m doing under the same influence as me.’ I’m not quite right and the guy who the hell knows it all — as far as I thought — but part of me still thinks there’s no place for anyone else to be making this kind of music. Sometimes you get offended. It just is.”
One of the bands that Williamson “captured” was post-punk group Dry Cleaning from South London, a leading duo who invited singer Florence Shaw to perform guest vocals on the best album “Force 10 From Navarone”.
“She’s just a pretty edgy, pretty dark and really interesting person,” Williamson said of the Show. “I’ve gotten to know her a little bit and I’m absolutely in awe of how she creates this non-landscape; that blank portrait of what she’s talking about. You don’t even have to know what she’s talking about, which is brilliant and I identify with her. You have a very interesting group behind you – Tom [Dawes] on guitar, Liu [Maynard] on bass, Nick [Buxton] on drums. They are bloody brilliant and set themselves apart from the rest of the bands.
“They are completely and utterly fulfilled. For a band with a few EPs and a few albums, I think they’re fully formed. At the same time, the future still exists for them.
The album is also accompanied by a surprise guest appearance from rock legends Perry Farrell and Jane’s Addiction’s Dave Navarro on the dark dance-punk “So Trendy”.
“[Pharrell] contacted us and said he wanted to write a song, so we said, ‘Yes! Why not?’” Williamson recalled. “Andrew and I aren’t big fans of Jane’s Addiction or Porno For Pyro, but we’ll admit he’s always been a pretty cool guy. It added brightness to the song, although it is not bright. It just seemed to open up the idea that we were doing a little bit more.”
So maybe we’ll see a future collaboration with another rock god like Axel Rose?
“Oh my God, that would be amazing!” Williamson laughed. “Actually, Guns N’ Roses bassist Duff McKagan sometimes says hi on Twitter. I’m a huge Guns N’ Roses fan so it’s just great.
“The more we get into it, the more Andrew and I want to go beyond the usual. Once it works, it’s not that bad. He has the same open-minded attitude about it.
Sleaford Mods have also been on social media recently, marking the 10th anniversary of the release of their debut duo album ‘Austerity Dogs’. Asked if they would do a tour or concerts to mark the landmark anniversary, Williamson said: “Yes, but the release of this album overshadowed that. We were going to play a few shows, but we were screwed at the end of last year, so we didn’t bother. I do not know. By the end of the year we’ll have plans for a few beats, but then you’ll have [the 2014 album] “Divide & Exit” which really blew us away.”
He added: “It would be a really good campaign to get ‘austerity dogs’ back into people’s minds. I listened to it the other day and it’s damn good – very minimalistic but very spacious and almost naive.’
Since the appearance of “Austerity Dogs”, Sleaford Mods’ albums have been climbing the charts ever since their release, with ‘Spare Ribs’ peaking at number five. Is the band heading for number one this time around?
“We’re everything I’ve always wanted a band to be, but would I like more? Yes of course! Williamson said. “I’m crossing my fingers that this one goes all the way, but I’m not betting on it.”
Looking back on their musical upbringing, Williamson concluded, “[Music] it still has to be good, raw, and have an amateur feel to it – something that no one else has. You can’t do that by making the packaging all shiny. Anyway, it’s terrible that I’ve been doing this for 10 years. I read somewhere that bands shouldn’t last more than 10 years and I thought, “Damn, they’re right”; but at the same time are there any? It can go on.”
He added: “I think we’re growing into it. It is not yet known what will happen in the future, but I think this will continue. We’re just going to put out an album every two years and it’s going to be an interesting form of creativity – you know what I mean?”
“UK Grim” will be released by Rough Trade Records on March 10th and can be pre-ordered here. Check out the full tracklist below.
“UK Grim”
DIWhy
“Force 10 From Navarone” – starring Florence Shaw
“Tilldipper”
‘On the ground’
“Beast from the Right Wing”
“Break Each Other Up”
“don”
“So Trendy” – featuring Perry Farrell and Dave Navarro
“I Claudius”
“Pit 2 Pit”
“Except you”
“Tori Kong”
“Rhythms Of Class”
To celebrate the album’s release, Sleaford Mods will also host two special gigs: a homecoming at Nottingham Rock City on March 14, followed by Pryzm in London in conjunction with the Banquet Music store on March 15. Fans can gain access to ticket sales by purchasing the album.
Sleaford Mods have announced their return with details of new album ‘UK Grim’. Listen to the title track below, as well as our interview with frontman Jason Williamson.
The continuation of the famous album “Spare Ribs” from the Nottingham duo, 2021 is due out in March, and the first taster of the record will arrive in the form of an edgy dance-punk title track, painting a bleak picture of post-COVID Britain. , accompanied by an appropriately merciless video from fellow Cold War politician Steve.
“The last thing we wanted to do was another male video where it was just me and Andrew [Fearn, multi—instrumentalist] we just shake our heads,” Williamson told NME. “We just thought, ‘What about Cold War Steve?’ I contacted him because I know him a little bit. A few years ago we organized a mini-exhibition of my words written on cardboard boxes, torn and placed under some of his works. We asked him to make a video and he was over the moon with happiness – we couldn’t believe it.
“I try to refrain from texting him because I don’t want to blow too much smoke up his ass and it just turns people off!”
UK Grim will be Sleaford Mods’ seventh album as a duo (but 12th if you count earlier rarities).
“The album was written during an event that wasn’t an event, which was COVID, and I was getting more and more angry at myself and everyone else,” Williamson said. “The energy of it is much more aggressive.”
Williamson described ‘UK Grim’ as a perfectly natural successor to ‘Spare Ribs’ – an album he said “still surprises me” due to its success, critical response and top five chart success.
“We knew the album was really good, but after six albums you don’t expect that kind of reception,” he said. “Will the zeitgeist strike again? I do not think so; we’re just doing our thing again. This was not supported by anything except perhaps the ultra-decline of all reason in public policy. Maybe in that sense ‘UK Grim’ can resonate with people who have lost their minds, with people who have to put up with these fucking idiots.”
Speaking about how the political landscape in the UK has only worsened since they covered the scene on their previous six albums, Williamson said: “We’re definitely not going to get justice, nothing’s going to change, the system’s not going to change; you will still have anarchists in your bedroom opposed to a world that is much bigger than them.”
After frequently speaking out against gangs for “unwittingly appropriating the voice of the working class” – and a previous high-profile feud with PREZEN – ‘UK Grim’ drops hip-hop ‘DIWhy’ aimed at ‘post-punk scum’. and the “flashy” actions that happened after the Sleaford Mods.
Asked if he expected a negative reaction to the song, Williamson said: “I don’t think there will be. People have been drinking and I can’t see them coming at me again—they’re worn out and I’m worn out. The battlefield is deserted and all we can see now are a few swords and severed limbs.
“These people are considered a species Spartans for musical social justice and a kind of moral superiority. They are just as bad as everyone else. I didn’t come to this game to sit in the upper room of the pub forever and play with the four. If they got a little mad because we traveled through their stage and knocked them to death – then what can you do? It’s a damn life.”
Williamson told NME that he often notices the duo’s influence on many bands after them, but “most of the time I don’t appreciate it”.
“I tried to tell myself that not appreciating it doesn’t make it a) bad or b) that they’re all jerks,” he admitted. “They just do something because they want to do it and they are influenced by people. I still can’t get over the fact that people are under our influence, unless of course I’m really passionate about it.
He continued: “To a certain extent, there’s a time and a place to criticize people, but there’s also a time and a place to think, ‘Well, they’re just doing what I’m doing under the same influence as me.’ I’m not quite right and the guy who the hell knows it all — as far as I thought — but part of me still thinks there’s no place for anyone else to be making this kind of music. Sometimes you get offended. It just is.”
One of the bands that Williamson “captured” was post-punk group Dry Cleaning from South London, a leading duo who invited singer Florence Shaw to perform guest vocals on the best album “Force 10 From Navarone”.
“She’s just a pretty edgy, pretty dark and really interesting person,” Williamson said of the Show. “I’ve gotten to know her a little bit and I’m absolutely in awe of how she creates this non-landscape; that blank portrait of what she’s talking about. You don’t even have to know what she’s talking about, which is brilliant and I identify with her. You have a very interesting group behind you – Tom [Dawes] on guitar, Liu [Maynard] on bass, Nick [Buxton] on drums. They are bloody brilliant and set themselves apart from the rest of the bands.
“They are completely and utterly fulfilled. For a band with a few EPs and a few albums, I think they’re fully formed. At the same time, the future still exists for them.
The album is also accompanied by a surprise guest appearance from rock legends Perry Farrell and Jane’s Addiction’s Dave Navarro on the dark dance-punk “So Trendy”.
“[Pharrell] contacted us and said he wanted to write a song, so we said, ‘Yes! Why not?’” Williamson recalled. “Andrew and I aren’t big fans of Jane’s Addiction or Porno For Pyro, but we’ll admit he’s always been a pretty cool guy. It added brightness to the song, although it is not bright. It just seemed to open up the idea that we were doing a little bit more.”
So maybe we’ll see a future collaboration with another rock god like Axel Rose?
“Oh my God, that would be amazing!” Williamson laughed. “Actually, Guns N’ Roses bassist Duff McKagan sometimes says hi on Twitter. I’m a huge Guns N’ Roses fan so it’s just great.
“The more we get into it, the more Andrew and I want to go beyond the usual. Once it works, it’s not that bad. He has the same open-minded attitude about it.
Sleaford Mods have also been on social media recently, marking the 10th anniversary of the release of their debut duo album ‘Austerity Dogs’. Asked if they would do a tour or concerts to mark the landmark anniversary, Williamson said: “Yes, but the release of this album overshadowed that. We were going to play a few shows, but we were screwed at the end of last year, so we didn’t bother. I do not know. By the end of the year we’ll have plans for a few beats, but then you’ll have [the 2014 album] “Divide & Exit” which really blew us away.”
He added: “It would be a really good campaign to get ‘austerity dogs’ back into people’s minds. I listened to it the other day and it’s damn good – very minimalistic but very spacious and almost naive.’
Since the appearance of “Austerity Dogs”, Sleaford Mods’ albums have been climbing the charts ever since their release, with ‘Spare Ribs’ peaking at number five. Is the band heading for number one this time around?
“We’re everything I’ve always wanted a band to be, but would I like more? Yes of course! Williamson said. “I’m crossing my fingers that this one goes all the way, but I’m not betting on it.”
Looking back on their musical upbringing, Williamson concluded, “[Music] it still has to be good, raw, and have an amateur feel to it – something that no one else has. You can’t do that by making the packaging all shiny. Anyway, it’s terrible that I’ve been doing this for 10 years. I read somewhere that bands shouldn’t last more than 10 years and I thought, “Damn, they’re right”; but at the same time are there any? It can go on.”
He added: “I think we’re growing into it. It is not yet known what will happen in the future, but I think this will continue. We’re just going to put out an album every two years and it’s going to be an interesting form of creativity – you know what I mean?”
“UK Grim” will be released by Rough Trade Records on March 10th and can be pre-ordered here. Check out the full tracklist below.
“UK Grim”
DIWhy
“Force 10 From Navarone” – starring Florence Shaw
“Tilldipper”
‘On the ground’
“Beast from the Right Wing”
“Break Each Other Up”
“don”
“So Trendy” – featuring Perry Farrell and Dave Navarro
“I Claudius”
“Pit 2 Pit”
“Except you”
“Tori Kong”
“Rhythms Of Class”
To celebrate the album’s release, Sleaford Mods will also host two special gigs: a homecoming at Nottingham Rock City on March 14, followed by Pryzm in London in conjunction with the Banquet Music store on March 15. Fans can gain access to ticket sales by purchasing the album.
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