Brighton collective Shrag have firmed up more details of their forthcoming album ‘Canines’.
Named in honour of an imaginary arts collective, Shrag’s mix an imaginative sense with a real taste for mischief. The band’s unkempt clatter and longing for noise recalls groups such as The Raincoats, who managed to make their probing analysis sound… FUN.
New album ‘Canines’ promises to place Shrag’s music in a much more linear fashion. Recorded at Gargleblast Studios with producer Andy Miller, the material seemingly retains their Fall-like clatter alongside a pop touch.
Two quotes from the band.
Helen King: We wrote ‘Canines’ between January and August last year in a long series of slightly fevered evenings ensconced in the shed at the bottom of Bob’s garden. It’s a pop record about bones and skin and cities and compulsions and love and confusion. It’s a bit strange, but you can dance to some of it, and it makes a particular kind of sense to us, which feels very exciting.
Bob Brown: I wanted to make an album that was, musically, a bit deranged. Too many albums start the same, end the same and have the same sounding stuff in between. Why not make an album that starts like Metal Machine Music and ends like Wichita Lineman? …and it needed a glam rock stomper somewhere in between. That was the only other stipulation. I’m from Wolverhampton. It seemed like the right thing to do. With that in mind I sat down to make some demos in the garden shed I christened Cabinessence. Shrag members came. ‘Canines’ was born.
Shrag of course are old friends of ClashMusic. We recently asked them to pen a tour diary, find the ever-entertaining results HERE.
Shrag are set to release ‘Canines’ through Fortuna POP! in June.
