Sleaford Mods annoncerer deres nye album Spare Ribs i dag – ude d. 15/1

Sleaford Mods kan i dag løfte sløret for udgivelsen af deres sjette studiealbum Spare Ribs, der udkommer d. 15. januar 2021 på Rough Trade / Playground Music.
 
Sammen med annonceringen udgiver bandet deres nye single ’Mork n Mindy’ featuring Billy Nomates. Den officielle musikvideo, der er instrueret af Ben Wheatley (hvis seneste værk, Rebecca, lige nu kan ses på Netflix, med en cameo fra forsanger Jason Williamson), er filmet på location i Nottingham. En lille kuriositet omkring videoen, huset videoen er filmet i, er en eksakt kopi af det hus Jason er vokset op i.
 
Se videoen til ’Mork n Mindy’ her.
 
Om sangen fortæller Jason: “Mork n Mindy is the sound of the central heating and the dying smells of Sunday dinner in a house on an estate in 1982. Concrete, dinted garages, nicotine. Where beauty mainly exists in small cracks on the shell of your imagination. Captured perfectly in Ben Wheatley’s video for the song.”
 
Det kommende album, Spare Ribs, indeholder features fra Amy Taylor fra Melbourne-punkbandet Amyl and the Sniffers og fra den nye britiske musiker Billy Nomates. På albummet vender Sleaford Mods deres vrede med den britiske regering og dennes berettigelse - og dennes måde, eller mangel på samme, at håndtere coronavirus-krisen. Spare Ribs er indspillet under lockdown på tre uger i juli.
 
Om albummet fortæller forsanger Jason:
“Our lives are expendable under most governments, secondary under a system of monetary rule. We are stock if you like, parts on a shelf for the purposes of profit, discarded at any moment if fabricated or non-fabricated crisis threatens productivity. This is constant, obviously and notably in the current pandemic. The masses cannot be present in the minds of ill-fitting leaders, surely? Or else the realisation of their catastrophic management would cripple their minds. Much like the human body can still survive without a full set of ribs we are all 'spare ribs’, preservation for capitalism, through ignorance and remote rule, available for parts.”
 
Titlen på albummet er, ifølge Jason, “the idea of the amount of people that died from the first wave of coronavirus; human lives are always expendable to the elites… We’re in a constant state of being spare ribs.”
 
 TRACKLISTING
The New Brick
Shortcummings
Nudge It (Features Amy Taylor Amyl and the Sniffers)
Elocution
Out There
Glimpses
Top Room
Mork n Mindy (Features Billy Nomates)
Spare Ribs
All Day Ticket
Thick Ear
I Don't Rate You
Fishcakes