Sugar Horse announce new album ‘Grand Scheme Of Things’
SUGAR HORSE have announced a new album!
Titled Grand Scheme Of Things, the upcoming album from the UK band is the follow-up to 2021’s The Live Long After (and 2022’s Waterloo Teeth and 2023’s Truth Or Consequences, New Mexico EPs), and is scheduled to be released in October this year, via Pelagic Records.
Speaking about the new album, the band says, “this album was intended to be a sideways step. A move away from the kind of thing that is expected of us… if anything is at all. What I mean by that, is the songs are more direct. They take a much shorter amount of time to ‘get to the point’. We also wanted to make this one noticeably ‘less metal’. While we love being a bit boneheaded and confrontational, we definitely wanted to explore the more melodic, song-based side of the band’s sound.
Normally you’d see shortened song structures and more singing and think ‘oh these guys are going for gold….they wanna get on the radio and make millions of bloodstained pounds.’ Well…you’re very much entitled to think that if you wish, but it felt like more of a songwriting challenge than anything else to be honest. We’ve done the whole drawn out, endless space rock thing a good few times now and it would’ve been easy to rest on those laurels. Do something we’re comfortable with. Alas, that is not really the point of this band. We’d much prefer to make it difficult and take the long route.”
Alongside the announcement of the new album, SUGAR HORSE have released a new music video for a new song lifted from the upcoming album; New Dead Elvis.
Speaking about the new song, the band shares, “this song is about reflecting on celebrity culture around death and its glorification, immediately following the death of my father. There is a romanticisation of ‘the tortured artist’ or ‘the biblical hedonist’ that follows celebrity and music culture around that I find pretty appalling. It’s something that I believe is responsible for the deaths of a large number of some of the most profoundly talented people that have ever graced this miserable planet and it should be prevented as soon as possible… Alas, the mob want their blood and I fear it shall persist until the sun swallows us.”
Watch the official music video for New Dead Elvis here:
Also, you can view both the track list and artwork for the upcoming new EP below:
Track List:
- The Grand Scheme of Things
- The Shape of ASMR to Come
- Corpsing
- Mulletproof
- Spit Beach
- New Dead Elvis
- Jefferson Aeroplane Over the Sea
- Office Job Simulator
- Space Tourist
Grand Scheme Of Things is set for release on October 4th via Pelagic Records. Pre-orders are available now and can be purchased here.
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