Remedy? have launched a video for Poundland Of Hope And Glory, the second single to be taken from their upcoming sixteenth studio album Onerous Chilly Hearth. The primary observe to emerge from the album, Pleasure, was launched final month. Onerous Chilly Hearth is ready for launch on Might 5 by way of Marshall Data, and is the follow-up to 2018’s Cleave.
Poundland Of Hope And Glory, which arrives wrapped in sometimes buoyant sonic packaging, is a wry take a look at the fact of dwelling in an period rife with misinformation, as frontman Andy Cairns explains.
“This observe began out as a tough tackle how folks lose themselves in narratives to the purpose that the parable takes on larger significance than the actual fact,” says Cairns. “Identical to the outdated adage concerning the liar repeating the lie a lot that they finally imagine it themselves, the tradition round us is bursting with fairy tales we inform ourselves.
“Metaphor and hagiography encompass us, however in a post-truth world, the Walter Mitty character is not a innocent fantasist however an incendiary zealot utilizing misinformation and chaos to attain their targets.”
Cairns continues: “It’s straightforward to smirk at center class dad and mom whose Harry Potter loving youngsters are despatched to personal college due to the Hogwarts model uniforms, and simple to eye roll at adults who really play Quidditch, a fictional sport from a novel written for kids, however it’s not really easy to abdomen the much less savoury reinvention of colonialism as a misplaced paradise to which we should always return.”
Onerous Chilly Hearth was recorded with common producer Chris Sheldon at Marshall Studios in Milton Keynes towards the top of 2021, and whereas lockdown might have impressed many albums over latest instances, the band had been eager to supply one thing that was much less claustrophobic and extra cathartic.
“One factor we did determine once we had been finally capable of rehearse, was that we did not wish to make a lockdown document,” says Cairns, “as a result of folks have been by means of sufficient.
“Once we started to rehearse the songs, we realised there was an empathetic high quality to them. We wished to make one thing that was a bit extra relatable, and fewer standoffish and claustrophobic – which we now have a historical past of, and it stands in locations – however we wished to make one thing extra approachable and open.”
“There is a reinvigorated really feel to the band, as if issues are shifting ahead,” provides drummer Neil Cooper. “I am very enthusiastic about folks listening to this. It isn’t nearly turning up and performing. Everybody’s so invested… we’re unbelievably fortunate, some bands do not get that privilege, and I recognize that. We’re in a unbelievable place.”
Remedy? will have fun the album’s launch with a brief run of UK in-store dates. Particulars beneath. Onerous Chilly Hearth is out there to pre-order now (opens in new tab).
Remedy? In-store UK dates
Might 08: Bristol, Tough Commerce
Might 09: Nottingham, Tough Commerce
Might 10: London, Banquet Data
Might 11: Oxford, Truck
Onerous Chilly Hearth tracklist
1. They Shoot The Horrible Grasp
2. Woe
3. Pleasure
4. Bewildered Herd
5. Two Wounded Animals
6. To Disappear
7. Mongrel
8. Poundland Of Hope and Glory
9. Ugly
10. Days Kollaps
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