The Enemy have signed with Cooking Vinyl with work beginning on their third album.
Woe betide any group attempting to make guitar music in the 21st century. Glasvegas recently parted company with their record label, while even Beady Eye’s commercial pedigree couldn’t capture the public’s attention.
Removing themselves from the clutches of a major label, The Enemy have signed a new deal with Cooking Vinyl. Announcing the move, the band’s frontman Tom Clarke released a strongly worded statement (via Music Week) containing a deeply personal view of the music industry:
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“My experience of record labels is as follows: the big ones have got big lawyers who want to pull your pants down and fuck you for fun while telling you they’re doing you a favour. And they are all about one thing – money.”
“The smaller ones are about two things – people and music. Success is possible because, when a small team of enthusiastic people care, they are capable of creating something that no big label or their lawyers can buy, passion. You can’t take 25% of net passion.”
“Cooking Vinyl have got bags of passion, and look where it’s got them; The Prodigy put out some of their finest work on Cooking Vinyl, The Subways tugging at the Radio One A list, that’s a guitar band on the A list in 2011. That is where passion gets you, and right now it’s gotten us into the studio, excited, enthused and passionate about being a band again. Something which our previous label miserably failed to achieve.”
“Long live Cooking Vinyl and all the proud people who make it what it is.”
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Work is now under way on the band’s third album. The Enemy are set to seclude themselves away in Acton’s Kore Studios early next year, with The Bronx’s Joby J. Ford sitting in the producer’s chair.
