Scorching Milk have unveiled the small print of their upcoming new album ‘Company P.O.P’, set for launch on June 27 by way of Music for Nations.
That includes brand-new observe ’90 Seconds To Midnight’, the band’s second full-length was produced by their very own Jim Shaw alongside Zach Jones and KJ Strock.
The album’s first single, ’90 Seconds To Midnight’ arrives alongside a depraved music video that includes comedy legend Frank Skinner.
Talking on the observe, vocalist Han Mee has shared:
“The doomsday clock is nearing midnight and this frantic track units the temper for the oncoming nuclear winter… We needed to punch you correct within the face with this, this balls to the wall little riffy boy comes bounding at you relentlessly. Lyrically we took inspiration from seventeenth century thinker Rousseau and the poet John Betjemen along with his poem ‘Slough’. Rousseau set out that humanity would by no means be free as we create our personal shackles. On this case, we’ve created our personal demise. The place as Betjemens poem takes this notion of demise and laughs at it, inviting the nukes in “come pleasant bombs”…. Let’s set the gaff on fireplace and begin once more.”
And on recruiting Frank Skinner for the video, she stated:
“His background with Room 101 (an Orwellian nod) and the very fact he wrote Three Lions was an ideal match for this bleak albeit tongue-in-cheek take a look at the state of the world from the gray filter of Salford.”
Test it out beneath:
Written and recorded each of their Salford flat and a dwell room in LA, on the Manchester band’s second album ‘Company P.O.P’ Jim has stated:
“‘Company P.O.P’ is a flurry of ideas, emotions, ramblings from the afters n questions on the place we’re at proper now in England, the additional western world and emotionally. It’s an entry from the angle of us lot who dwell a dichotomy of months in faraway lands after which expertise the sudden grounding of returning house to Salford. It’s exhausting to not examine, distinction and attempt to perceive. P.O.P = Cost of Ache. All of us should dwell with the burden of modernity and this ache has been commodified; all of us should pay. Company pop itself is a time period Han’s grandad used to confer with the water provide, one thing that runs all through all our properties, simply as present occasions run by us all.”
You may preorder the document proper right here.
Set to seem at Slam Dunk Pageant this Could, the band can even play some intimate UK headline exhibits in April.
See the total checklist of dates beneath:
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04 – La Belle Angele, Edinburgh
06 – Company, Sheffield
07 – Waterfront, Norwich
09 – O2 Academy 2, Oxford
10 – The Globe, Cardiff
11 – Patterns, Brighton
Take a look on the album paintings for ‘Company P.O.P’ beneath:
