Vukovi announce new album ‘NULA’

May 26, 2022 James Weaver

VUKOVI have announced a new album!

Titled NULA, the upcoming album from the Scottish two-piece is the follow-up to 2020’s Fall Better, and is scheduled to be released in October this year, via LAB Records.

The upcoming album intends to be a concept record which charts the journey of this character (called Nula) in a distant, far off, Sci-fi world. “Growing up I was obsessed with the likes of Akira, Batman: The Animated Series, Arkham Asylum: A Serious House on Serious Earth, the Alien franchise, Star Wars, all massive influences of mine,” says vocalist Janine Shilstone. The whole record starts with an announcement of interplanetary travel. Nula (the character) is a captured extra-terrestrial that’s now the property of a nefarious capitalist. The album picks up 25 years after her capture. And in-between there’s all sorts of comment on themes of trauma, violence, lust, and revenge. “I think about what’s happening in the world too much,” says Janine. “The way the rich are getting richer and the poor getting poorer. The greed. The cruelty. There’s a lot of that on the record, and in Nula’s story.”

“I’ve had so much fun making this record,” adds guitarist Hamish Reilly. “I sometimes think I can overcomplicate my playing, just because I need to keep myself interested. But I’ve gone all out on NULA, and everything that is there is something that needed to be there.”

Alongside the announcement of the new album, VUKOVI have released a new music video for a new song lifted from the upcoming record; HADES. The new single is the latest to be released from the upcoming record, following on from the release of LASSO, HURT, KILL IT and SLO.

Watch the official music video for HADES here: