RXPTRS announce new EP ‘Tales Of Ill Repute’

RXPTRS have announced a brand new EP!

The Bristol rock outfit have revealed their new EP, TALES OF ILL REPUTE, which is scheduled for release on November 20th. The upcoming record marks the band’s first non-single release since their 2022 album Living Without Death’s Permission.

Comprised of six tracks, the EP forms the first part of a planned two-EP narrative and sees RXPTRS blending personal experiences with a fictional post-apocalyptic storyline.

Speaking about the new release, vocalist Simon Roach shares, “TALES OF ILL REPUTE is the first in a double feature of EPs. The songs are all based upon real life incidents that I took and placed in a fictional universe to play out one narrative. So each song has a double meaning. A place in the storyline, and what actually happened in real life.

I’ve never been one to open up, and never really processed quite large life events in a straight forward manner. So creating this fictional world has helped vocalise feelings of grief, anger, optimism and denial. It’s easier to get perspective when I can visualise other people in these situations, so writing these songs has been quite cathartic.

Each of the songs play out a scene, so I decided to name the tracks as if they were B-movies. The narrative plays out as a gang of stragglers travel through an apocalyptic wasteland, travelling through districts to get to a final destination, where they can overthrow a governed area, The Capital, to live out their days there, encountering loss and hardships along the way. In real life, each of the ‘districts’ that I’ve created are actually a metaphor for the stages of grief, and overthrowing the governed district is how I battled stress and depression while grieving.”

Also, you can view both the track list and artwork for the upcoming new EP below:

Track List: 

1. The Grindhouse
2. Stray From The Sociopath
3. Right Back Down
4. The Horror Show
5. In Another Life
6. The Misguiding Light

TALES OF ILL REPUTE is set for release on November 20th via self-release. Pre-orders are available now and can be purchased here.

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