WEIRDS make a grand entrance with their fuzzy and kaleidoscopic video for OLD WORLD BLUES today. Taken from their standout debut album SWARMCULTURE, which was released earlier this year on Alcopop! Records, the Leeds band stand taller, louder and heavier than before with their breed of sludgy and psychedelic rock.
We set out to write the slowest, sludgiest, heaviest song we could get away with. We wanted a real slow, almost hip hop style beat, and the riff just spawned from there. I wrote the verse lyrics on the back of my flight ticket in Marseille Airport in a boiling hot departure lounge at the height of summer. I guess the song is our crest of intent, us taking aim and limbering up- we’ve got you in our sights.”
– Aidan Razzall, vocals
Aptly named, WEIRDS are by no means an easy-listening band or a live show where you simply stand still and spectate. Having created the band as teenagers, over the years they’ve crafted a sound and live presence that consumes and mesmerises. Catch them on the road:
21st Sep – Reeperbahn Festival, Hamburg (DE)
23rd Sep – Psych Fest, Liverpool
24th Sep – Hope & Ruin, Brighton (w/ DZ Deathrays)
25th Sep – Hobos, Bridgend (w/ DZ Deathrays)
26th Sep – The Horn, St. Albans (w/ DZ Deathrays)
27th Sep – Camden Monarch, London (w/ DZ Deathrays)
28th Sep – Camden Assembly, London (w/ DZ Deathrays)
28th Oct – The Finsbury, London
BUY/LISTEN TO ‘SWARMCULTURE’:
http://ilovealcopop.awesomedistro.com/bands/weirds
http://spoti.fi/2wXr0cm
