Random Hand announce new self-titled album
RANDOM HAND have announced a new album!
The new album, a self-titled effort, follows the West Yorkshire, Keighley-bred ska punk outfit’s 2015 full-length Hit Reset, and is scheduled to be released in September this year via Bomber Music.
Speaking about the new album, bassist Joe Tilston comments, “We pushed ourselves to breaking, then further still. We stopped to recover and then came back with a passion and energy we didn’t think possible. RANDOM HAND have now played over 2000 shows and we are currently curating a series of our own HandFests across the UK this year, the first in Leeds in February sold out two days in less than 45 minutes.”
“Once we started writing the new album, we hit a groove like in the years the band first started. Things felt so natural and exciting again. Working with Andy Hawkins, who helped us craft Hit Reset was the obvious choice. We loved making that album, but recording an album you know you’re not going to tour is a very different experience. This was exciting, potential was oozing out of every session, that didn’t feel stunted or a waste. The choice to call it Random Hand felt like a bold statement for album five and two decades into a career. But we feel that good about it, it defines all we’ve done, and we believe it stands as tall as anything else we’ve ever created, if not taller. With all the other great things happening in ska punk in the international scene and in the UK, makes it feel like this album couldn’t be timed better.”
Alongside the announcement of the album, the band have released a music video for its lead single Lifejackets.
Speaking about the song, Tilston adds, “It’s a song about the gap between us and those at the top. For the video we played out in a retro encounter with a tyrannical salesman, who ruins everyone’s day. We descended on one of the empty shops, that litter Keighley’s Highstreet. Closed like a time capsule from the 2008 financial crash, it served as the perfect location for our throwback adventure. It was colder in there than the nice sunny day outside, but we were all dressed like cretins so we stayed in and shivered. But we knew we were onto something special with the talented people we were working with, getting the best out of us.”
Watch the official video for Lifejackets here:
You can view the artwork for the upcoming album below.
Random Hand is set for release on September 29th via Bomber Music. Pre-orders are available now and can be purchased here.
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