It’s been quite the ait, but Violent Soho have revealed details of their much anticipated third studio album Hungry Ghost, today dropping both its lead single, the energetic ‘In The Aisle’ and a number of exclusive album preview shows, playing venues on the East Coast this August in Sydney, Brisbane, and Melbourne.
Just one spin of ‘In The Aisle’ spells good things for the band’s new studio album. The late 2011 release of double-A side single Tinderbox/Neighbour Neighbour, and a signing to party-starting indie label I OH YOU, displayed a strong return-to-form for the Brisbane four-piece, arriving after they parted ways with Thurston Moore’s Ecstatic Peace label and their Gil Norton-produced eponymous second album.
Chiefly off the back of single ‘Jesus Stole My Girlfriend’, the four mates from Mansfield spend a busy couple of years touring internationally, with the likes of Built To Spill, Dinosaur Jr, Alice In Chains, The Bronx, and the English Les Savy Fav-curated ATP. Great guns to be sure, but it kept the band away from their native Australia long enough for people to wonder what had actually happened to the grunge-sounding group. “all charging guitars and head nodding attack galvanised by Luke Boerdam’s larynx lynching vocals – [the results] speak for themselves.”
Following the release of Tinderbox/Neighbour Neighbour, which proved they’d lost none of their fiery fun and fury, the band decamped to Brisbane to record their third record at Brisbane studio The Shed with Bryce Moorhead, who the band dubbed “one of the greatest, most underrated producers in Australia… Brisbane’s Steve Albini”. The finishing polish to what would become Hungry Ghost came in a mixing job by John Agnello (Dinosaur Jr, Sonic Youth, The Hold Study) at New Yrok’s Fluxivity Recordings.
Now three years after their last album, the punchy, powerful results of ‘In The Aisle’ – all charging guitars and head nodding attack galvanised by Luke Boerdam’s larynx lynching vocals – speak for themselves, the first taste of Hungry Ghost‘s 11 tracks and 44 minutes of music.
It’s the album “Violent Soho needed to make,” according to the band; “intelligent, melodic, soaked in Brisbane’s curious culture and dripping attitude. With Boerdam calling it a character study of the personalities of their hometown as well as the consumerist ideals that have invaded it over time. “[It’s about] the concept of the outsider,” adds Boerdam, “people who are a little bizarre and how they view the world.”
The band will offer lucky fans in Sydney, Melbourne and Violent Soho’s native BRisbane the first chance to hear Hungry Ghost selections in the visceral live setting in a series of ‘album preview’ shows
Hungry Ghost is out 6th September through I OH YOU but is available for pre-order now through http://www.violentsoho.com/.
Listen to ‘In The Aisle’ below and check out the gnarly Hungry Ghost album artwork and tracklisting after the tour dates.
Violent Soho 2013 Australian Tour Dates
Hungry Ghost Preview Shows
Wednesday 14th August – Brighton Up Bar, Sydney NSW (18+)
with BEARHUG
Thursday 15th August – Liberty Social, Melbourne VIC (18+)
with DAMN TERRAN
Friday 16th August – Crowbar, Brisbane QLD (18+)
with ROKU MUSIC, POSTBLUE
Tickets on sale now via http://violentsoho.oztix.com.au
Hungry Ghost Tracklisting:
1.Dope Calypso
2. Lowbrow
3. Covered in Chrome
4. Saramona Said
5. In The Aisle
6. OK Cathedral
7. Fur Eyes
8. Gold Coast
9. Liars
10. Eightfold
11. Hungry Ghost
