The Mods are again with a bang after the discharge of Megaton with an on kind new album The Demise Of Planet X, stuffed full of latest concepts and extra c**ts than Farmer Jim from Brassic. The brand new video for The Good Life is a taster of what’s to return earlier subsequent yr…
Andrew Fearn and Jason Williamson’s most expansive and impressive launch so far, the album incorporates a uncommon visitor look from former Life With out Buildings frontwoman Sue Tompkins, plus collaborations with Aldous Harding, soul singer Liam Bailey and dirt MC Snowy, the latter two each hailing from band’s hometown Nottingham.
In her first foray into music, actress Gwendoline Christie (Wednesday/Severance/Sport Of Thrones) additionally joins Midlands band Huge Particular on Sleaford Mods new single The Good Life, which is
launched as we speak accompanied by a video directed by Ben Wheatley (The Kill Listing/A Discipline In England/Bulk).
Boasting the duo’s most assorted and expressive musical method up to now, ‘The Demise Of Planet X’ charts, critiques and satirises our instances, whereas providing a common cry of anger and launch of power that pushes in opposition to the encroaching cultural darkness.
Considering the world coming to an finish not with a giant bang however in slowly rising tide of irritating mundanity, ‘The Demise Of Planet X’ strikes again with vivid sonics, acerbic phrases, enveloping atmospheres and a participating wit throughout 13 tracks that can transfer hearts, minds and toes.
‘“The Demise Of Planet X’ represents a life lived underneath immense uncertainty, formed by mass trauma,” declares frontman Jason Williamson. “Once we wrote the final album, it was about stagnation, a rustic that felt like a dull corpse. Three years later, that corpse has been break up open by warfare, genocide, and the lingering psychological fallout of Covid while social media has mutated right into a grotesque, twisted type of digital engineering. It seems like we’re residing among the many ruins. A multi-layered abomination etched into our collective psyche.”
He provides: “I don’t need to pat myself on the again whereas the remainder of the world falls to shit, however we’re actually pleased with ‘The Demise Of Planet X’. The music and concepts are actually contemporary and it’s in your face, nevertheless it pays to place your glasses on to have a look at the substances.”
First single, the aforementioned ‘The Good Life’, captures this mixture of public and private apocalypse, as Andrew Fearn’s pressing beats and attractive melodies mix with Williamson’s machine gun diction to chart the influence of a few of the Sleaford Mods’ frontman’s extra notorious feedback on the present music scene. Huge Particular and Gwendoline Christie give voice to his conflicted and tormented interior voices mopping up the fallout his outburst trigger.
“’The Good Life’ talks about slagging bands off and the enjoyment and distress that causes me. I’m asking myself why am I slagging bands off. Why is it a seamless factor with me? My interior voices are dropped at life by Gwendoline and Huge Particular, debating that inside rigidity between me having fun with a superb life or submitting to the mayhem,” explains Williamson.
The observe’s video, accessible to observe now by way of the band’s YouTube channel, brings these voices collectively within the flesh underneath Ben Wheatley’s charismatic course.
“It’s sensible to be working with Andrew and Jason once more on a Mods promo, this time teaming up with the superb Gwendoline Christie and Huge Particular,” declares British director who was beforehand chargeable for Sleaford Mods’ Mork n Mindy video. “I’m a long-time fan so it’s all the time thrilling to get the decision to return out to play.”
Alongside ‘The Good Life’, the album options cliche-bursting 2025 single ‘Megaton’, ‘Elitest G.O.A.T.’ with its light-as-cloud visitor vocals from Aldous Harding, the reflective, poisonous masculinity pricking ‘Unhealthy Santa’ and the Magic Roundabout-infused bouncy rap of the title observe.
Nottingham singer-songwriter Liam Bailey provides a soulful lament to world-weary MAGA takedown ‘Flood The Zone’; grime rapper Snowy drops decisive bars on ‘Kill Listing’s’ horror hip hop (its central imagery impressed by Ben Wheatley’s movie of the identical), whereas for ‘No Contact’ Salford Mods managed to lure Sue Tompkins from the much-missed Life With out Buildings again into the studio. Duetting with Williamson, the pair’s distinctly human voices intertwine over a slinky bass and music field keyboard motif.
A number of limited-edition variations of ‘The Demise Of Planet X’ will likely be accessible on launch, which might be pre-ordered now.
For the subsequent 48 hours solely, an unique ‘black label’ starlight sparkle vinyl model of the album will likely be accessible by way of the band’s mailing record. A glow at midnight version, boasting a luminous LP and glow at midnight gatefold sleeve design is on the market from the band and Tough Commerce Data’ webstores, whereas unbiased report outlets are promoting an unique, neon inexperienced marbled version. The album can even be accessible on black vinyl, CD and cassette, the latter coming in a fetching shade of poisonous inexperienced.
Moreover, in a salute to their hometown, the ‘Nottz picture-disc’ version will likely be completely on sale solely from outlets inside Nottingham.
‘The Demise Of Planet X’ observe record is as follows:
The Good Life feat. Gwendoline Christie + Huge Particular
Double Diamond
Elitest G.O.A.T. feat. Aldous Harding
Megaton
No Contact feat. Sue Tompkins
Unhealthy Santa
The Demise Of Planet X
Don Draper
Gina Was
Shoving the Pictures
Flood the Zone feat. Liam Bailey
Kill Listing feat. Snowy
The Unwrap
‘The Demise Of Planet X’ follows Sleaford Mods’ 2023 state-of-the-nation album, ‘UK GRIM’, the duo’s most profitable report so far which earned them their highest UK chart place, going straight in at Quantity 3 and as beforehand introduced, Sleaford Mods will hit the highway following its launch. The band will play exhibits across the globe, together with the next tour of UK and Eire which takes place in February and March subsequent yr. Tickets are on sale now.
Glasgow Barrowland Ballroom (February 6)
Manchester Academy (7)
Leeds O2 Academy (12)
Liverpool O2 Academy, (13)
Cardiff Nice Corridor (14)
Dublin 3Olympia Theatre (19)
Belfast Limelight (20)
Cork Cyprus Avenue (21)
Oxford O2 Academy (26)
Nottingham Rock Metropolis (27)
Nottingham Rock Metropolis (28)
Bristol Beacon (March 5)
Brighton Dome (6)
London O2 Academy Brixton (7)
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Forewords by Wayne Carey, Critiques Editor for Louder Than Warfare. His creator profile is right here
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