Captain, We're Sinking have announced a lengthy US tour to coincide with the release of their highly anticipated new album King Of No Man. The Scranton, PA band will release their new record - a follow-up to their excellent 2013 LP The Future Is Cancelled - on June 23rd via Run For Cover Records. Excitingly, can stream the record in full below.
Notorious for their lack of touring, and also for not releasing a new record in forever, Captain, We're Sinking and frontman Bobby Barnett is revered for some truly brilliant, dark, introspective songwriting. The brother of The Menzingers' Greg Barnett, Bobby is certainly not hiding in his brother's shadow, riding coat tails or any of those cliche's - the reception to The Future Is Cancelled and the fervor for a new Captain record will put paid to those claims straight away.
The King Of No Man will be properly unleashed alongside a release show in Philadelphia, PA on June 23rd at Everybody Hits before the band hits the road throughout September; including two dates with the aforementioned Menzingers. You can see those dates below.
* = w/ The Menzingers
]]></font></td></tr></table>Best Ex (formerly known as Candy Hearts) has today released a brand new track. 'Someday' is the band's first release since adopting the new moniker and you can listen to it below.
As you can tell, the band has also taken on a new sound. 'Someday' is definitely more electro-indie-pop than Candy Hearts ever were, so to call Best Ex anything short of a new beginning for the band would be a massive understatement.
The new track is taken from the band's debut(?) EP Ice Cream Anti Social. That EP will be released on July 14th via Alcopop! Records (UK) and will be supported with a huge US tour alongside The Promise of Redemption, Daisyhead, Baggage (ex-The Swellers) and June Divided. So whilst Best Ex have changed a lot, they certainly hope their audience won't too much.
Best Ex singer Mariel Loveland says of her band's new track is "a sort of anthem to the most insecure parts of myself -- the parts that felt like the best I could do was never really good enough.”
Candy Hearts (now Best Ex) last released their last full-length. All The Ways You Let Me Down in 2014 and followed that with the Acoustic Hearts EP a year later - remaining inactive ever since.
]]></font></td></tr></table>Polary has released a brand new video for 'Losing Sleep'; the second track to be released by the Cheltenham trio. A statement slice of indie-pop goodness anchored by a huge chorus, its swift change in styles - from pure pop to arena filling rock - is what sets this track and Polary as a band apart from anything that's out there right now.
'Losing Sleep' is a track that sounds destined for the mainstream - a statement that would usually be used to strike down many a band - and Polary's sound certainly has that Radio 1 appeal, but 'Losing Sleep' is inventive enough to appease the more discerning, perhaps even snobbish, indie rock fans out there.
With this track, Polary are certainly wandering a similar route to the likes of Bastille and even The 1975, but they're marching to their own beat as they do so.
]]></font></td></tr></table>Beans On Toast and Skinny Lister have announced the 'Double Trouble' Tour. The Xtra Mile Recordings labelmates will hit the road together once again; this time taking on the UK. The two acts have toured extensively in the US previously, but until now a UK tour has never materialised.
Beans On Toast recently completed another small venue tour and will spend his summer playing festival dates, including an appearance at Glastonbury Festival. He's currently touring on the back of his 2016 release A Spanner in the Works, but has already debuted some topical material in the form of this ode to Teresa May and the Tory Party policies in the recent UK general election.
Skinny Lister will continue to tour on the back of their most recent record, The Devil, The Heart & The Fight - twelve tracks of rabble rousing shanty punk.
Considering that these guys are already well acquainted, it's fair to say that you can expect to see a few collaborations too. Maybe they'll bust out their modern Christmas classic?
Dates and details all below.
Larkhill - the Brighton / Barcelona-based punk band - will play a rare string of dates across the south of the UK later this month. The band will share bills with The band will share bills with the likes of Kamikaze Girls, Nervus and Sibling as well as H_ngm_n, who the band released a split record with in 2016.
A video was recently released for 'Get High', a track taken from the band's aforementioned split with H_ngm_n. You can watch that below.
Larkhill UK Tour dates - June 2017