Asylums

Southend’s Asylums have dropped new single ‘Platitudes’, the latest cut to be taken from the band’s upcoming third album.

The new release is a fast-paced and fuzzed-out piece of rock, with sinister guitar riffs and a punk edge.

“It’s going to sound weird, but I initially wrote ‘Platitudes’ using an old 808 drum machine and a synth, I was listening to loads of electronic film music at the time because I wanted a more angular and dystopian feel for ‘Genetic Cabaret’ than our previous album ‘Alien Human Emotions’,” says frontman Luke Branch.

“By the time we started developing the track as a band this song was sped up to almost hysterical levels and the fuzz pedals came back out. Lyrically it’s certainly influenced by some of the empty political messaging that was going on in early 2019 but spliced together with some topics present in the David Cronenberg, J. G. Ballard and Stephen King work I was obsessing over during its incubation.”

The new album ‘Genetic Cabaret’ is out on 17th July. Pre-order here: https://asylums.tmstor.es/

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