'No One's Bothered' say Sleaford Mods. New track, album and tour dates.
Stream 'No One's Bothered' from the third ‘proper’ Sleaford Mods album, 'Key Markets', which will be released on July 10th via abstract-punk label Harbinger Sound (vinyl, CD and download). The album from the Nottingham punk duo – Jason Williamson (words) and Andrew Fearn (music) was mastered by Matt Colton at Alchemy. It will be housed in a gatefold sleeve designed by Steve Lippert. Everything else was done by Sleaford Mods. You can pre order it now on Cargo.
“Key Markets was a large supermarket bang in the centre of Grantham from the early 1970's up until around 1980,” explains Jason Williamson.
“My mum would take me there and I'd always have a large coke in a plastic orange cup surrounded by varnished wood trimmings and big lamp shades with flowers on them. Beige bricks with bright yellow points of sale and large black foam letters surrounded you and this is why we called the album 'Key Markets'. It's the continuation of the day to day and how we see it, the un-incredible landscape.”
Recorded between summer and autumn 2014. the album, 'Key Markets' is "in places quite abstract but it still deals heavily with the dis-orientation of modern existence. It still touches on character assassination, the delusion of grandeur and the pointlessness of government politics.
It's a classic. Fuck em.”
In advance of their next live appearances, Sleaford Mods have released the stream of 'No One's Bothered' which is partly a comment on the ongoing car crash that is human behaviour under capitalism, a fading sense of any connection or unified relationship with each other. Alienation is almost accepted," says Willamson. "Musically it reminds me of those early Meteors records, the more stripped version of Psychobilly that was happening around 81/82.”
Talking of the forthcoming gigs...
@sleafordmods "Touring's for young people n that” : MAY : 14 Norwich Waterfront Studio, 15 Manchester Academy 2, 16 Brudenell Social Club, 21 and 22 Bristol Exchange, 23 Brighton Concorde 2. JUNE 4 Sheffield Leadmill, 5 London Koko, 24-28 Glastonbury Festival. SEPTEMBER 4-6 End Of The Road Festival, 10-13 Bestival.
Get the Sleaford Mods vibe from a video; right up The Zine's street, this – Tiswas - a personal fave. Actually a month after after this video was uploaded, cops at the Million Mask March in Central London dismissed the huge crowds of public protestors (the Zine team included) as anarchists...
Images are courtesy of The Zine photographer, Duncan Stafford, who has spent time with the band at various gigs and took stills during the shooting of the Sleaford Mods documentary Invisible Britain. Directed by Nathan Hannawin and Paul Sng, it's their debut film. Paul explained more; "In December we contacted the band with the idea of making a documentary that would follow them for a few weeks on tour, meeting the fans to get their perspective, and filming the band discussing how it feels to be writing the soundtrack to the swirling shits torm that is Britain in 2015: not so much broken as smashed to pieces, the whole country teetering on the edge of a massive nervous breakdown.”
Sleaford Mods are the right punks for our very wrong times. I love these shots, bleak but unbowed. From various parts of Invisible Britain ourselves, The Zine team clicked with Duncan immediately. It's no surprise that his skills are increasingly in demand, these images are as sharp and candid as Sleaford Mods impact. http://www.duncanstaffordphotography.com/
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