Other Half announce new album ‘Soft Action’
OTHER HALF have announced a new album!
Titled Soft Action, the upcoming album from the Norwich-based post-hardcore trio is the follow-up to 2020’s debut, Big Twenty, and is scheduled to be released in December this year, via Big Scary Monsters.
Alongside the announcement of the new album, the band have released two brand new songs from the upcoming album; Like A Dog and Slab Thick. Speaking about the two new songs, vocalist Cal says, “I really like that Like A Dog is the first thing people will hear of the new album. It’s a 40 second blast of nasty, grinding hardcore that I wrote because Alfie said we needed more fast songs. It sets up exactly where most of the characters that inhabit the album exist; out of step with a world that no longer tolerates the shit they get up to and still reeling from it. ‘A bad time to be a bad guy.
Someone described our last record as one of the great ‘drug albums’. Going by the lyrics for Slab Thick, that might make this record our ‘sex album’. A debased three bears-style allegory about the search for something that doesn’t exist. It doubles up as a comment on the process of writing our second album and how most of the time it’s good to just stick to what you know. To further complicate the metaphor, it’s actually a song we were originally very wary of, as it just didn’t sound very OTHER HALF. We soon realised we just couldn’t play it very well and ultimately, OTHER HALF is just what happens when me, Alfie and Soapy play rock songs together. As it happens, I think Slab Thick is a pretty good rock song.”
Listen to Like A Dog here:
Listen to Slab Thick here:
Also, you can view both the track list and artwork for the upcoming new album below:
Track List:
- Like A Dog
- Jollies With The Boys
- Slab Thick
- In My Wires
- Grisly Visions
- Just A Holiday
- Losing The Whip
- All Bets Are Off
- Doom Logo
- Who’s Got Guts?
- Every Future
- Planetary Feeling
- Ugly Reunion
- If You Write The Way You Talk
Soft Action is set for release on December 2nd via Big Scary Monsters. Pre-orders are available now and can be purchased here.
For more information on OTHER HALF like their official page on Facebook.
