The Chats announce new album ‘Get Fucked’

May 8, 2022 Ellis Heasley

THE CHATS have announced a new album!

Titled Get Fucked, the upcoming album from the Australian punks is the follow up to their 2020 debut full-length High Risk Behaviour and is scheduled to be released in August this year via Bargain Bin Records.

The new album was recorded in six days at Brisbane’s Hunting Ground facility with Cody McWaters and sees the band exploring panic attacks, junkies, prison breaks, the price of smokes, surf mafia, being drunk in every pub in Brisbane and much more based on personal experiences.

Speaking about the new album and its title, bassist/vocalist Eamon Sandwith says, “We were just sitting around and discussing titles, and I kind of said it half-jokingly, and Matt was like, ‘That is the best title I’ve ever heard!’ I was like, ‘It’s a bit silly, isn’t it?’ but eventually it just grew on us over time. There’s a lot of boardroom meetings, clipboards and manila folders, all about this stuff. Spreadsheets, and that. We just thought how funny would it be, if you were a kid seeing it on the album cover. I remember going to K-Mart and seeing the GREEN DAY Dookie CD, and being like, ‘Aw man, this is the craziest album cover I’ve ever seen!’ Imagine being a kid and just seeing a CD that says, Get Fucked!”

Alongside the announcement of the new album, the band have released a new music video for the record’s opening track 6L GTR. The video was made by animator and illustrator Marco Imov.

Speaking about the new song, whose title was inspired by a car license plate, Sandwith adds, “I don’t even know if the car itself was actually a six-litre GTR or anything. To be honest with you, I don’t even know what a car like that would look like! I can’t drive! That was the thing, we were just trying to get into this dude’s head. We were like, ‘When he’s fangin’ it in his car, what’s in his head? What does he do?’ It was a fun exercise.”

Watch the official music video for 6L GTR here: