With their debut album, Interplanetary Class Classics, due out next month, the band have shared
another track from it in the form of ‘The Strangle Of Anna’, and you can check it out above righ now.
Featuring Rebecca Taylor of Slow Club, the track is a duet between her and the band’s frontman, Johnny Rocket (otherwise known as Fat White Family’s Lias Saoudi). It’s described as "a record about liberation, finding a voice and standing up".
Adrian Flanagan of the band said: "We wrote the song from the viewpoint of the girlfriend of some cliched, self-absorbed, pound-shop indie Lou Reed wannabe, who plays in some Velvets / Mary chain-esque shoddy local band… You know the type , sociopathic skinny boys in leather jackets and winkle pickers, with cry baby, light weight, borderline drug problem – and with egos that far outweighs their talent for playing the chords, C, F and G through a fuzz guitar pedal, drenched in reverb. I think every woman has a tale about being with such Grade A Black Clouds!"
The album is out on March 24 via Transgressive, and is apparently set to feature guest turns from Yoko Ono and Randy Jones, the cowboy from The Village People. It was written and recorded across studios in Sheffield and New York, and this track follows on from lead single ‘Black Hanz’, shared last month. The band will tour the UK across March and April in support of the album, including playing their biggest headline show to date at London’s Village Underground on April 4.
