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The Itch have officially revealed their first album It’s The Hope That Kills You and have shared a chaotic and playful new single titled Aux Romanticiser.
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The Luton based dance punks will release the album on April 10 through Fiction and I Oh You and it is available to pre order now. The record also includes earlier singles Space In The Cab as well as their debut release Ursula.
Aux Romanticiser features samples from the viral web series Subway Takes alongside Pearson Sound’s WAD and hears frontman Simon Tyrie delivering lyrics about turning into a bedroom DJ armed only with an AUX cable. “Let’s get it started You don’t even know how to cross fade Just stick it in your phone and play some Beyoncé.”
The low budget video that accompanies the track opens with a group of people questioning whether DJs are even necessary anymore before the song kicks in. The visuals then cut to scenes of friends losing themselves during a messy and indulgent night out at the club.
1. ‘Space In The Cab’
2. ‘No More Sprechgesang!’
3. ‘Can’t Afford This’
4. ‘Pirate Studios’
5. ‘Drugdealer’
6. ‘Radio Frequencies’
7. ‘It’s The Hope That Kills You’
8. ‘Aux Romanticiser’
9. ‘Ursula’
10. ‘Never Change’
11. ‘Switch It Off’
The duo previously appeared as NME’s The Cover stars in September where Tyrie spoke about the band’s approach. “What we’re trying to do with The Itch is to play fun nights that don’t feel like the industry’s got their hands all over them.”
Georgia Hardy added: “When you’re outside of the music industry you think everyone inside it knows what they’re doing and that there are rules you have to follow like playing certain shows or landing on specific playlists.
“But once you’re working in it you realise it’s all nonsense and everyone is just figuring it out as they go. That gave me the confidence to say the music and the creative world around it matter most. I mean our booking agent hates us but we just do not want to do those traditional tours because there is no upside.”
Check out the band’s live dates below.
JANUARY
28 – St Moritz Club, Soho, London, UK
MARCH
10 – Les Inrocks with Stereolab and Elias Rønnenfelt, Paris, France
MAY
13-16 – Great Escape Festival, Brighton, UK
23 – Dot to Dot Festival, Bristol, UK
24 – Dot to Dot Festival, Nottingham, UK
JULY
3-5 – Wilde Weide Festival, Kraggenburg, Netherlands
MUNA have officially shared full details of their long awaited fourth studio album, Dancing On The Wall, which is scheduled to arrive on May 8.
The news comes with the release of the record’s title track and its accompanying official video, giving fans their first real look at what the trio’s new chapter sounds and feels like.
To mark the occasion, the group are planning a run of intimate underplay performances in Los Angeles, New York and London during release week. It will be a special opportunity to catch MUNA up close before they step back onto larger stages later this year.
Opening up about the project, the band described the title song as a standout moment within their body of work.
They shared: “Dancing On The Wall is possibly our favorite song we’ve made as a band. We think it’s all the best parts of MUNA – it’s coming from a really emotional and lonely place, but the song itself makes us feel powerful and euphoric. It’s written in the moment that the clock strikes midnight at the ball, and you have to give up the fantasy. In this case, it’s the fantasy of loving someone or something that can’t love you back.”
The 13 song album was produced by Naomi McPherson, allowing the band to take full creative ownership of the sound and direction. It is a project that pulls listeners straight to the dancefloor while still keeping its vulnerability front and center.
MUNA, made up of Katie Gavin and Josette Maskin alongside McPherson, have continued to build momentum over the years and were personally chosen by Harry Styles as the opening act for his first solo tour. Since then, they have also performed with Taylor Swift on the Eras Tour, in addition to sharing bills with Lorde, boygenius and Phoebe Bridgers.
Dancing On The Wall follows their 2022 self titled album, which marked their first release as independent artists after signing to Phoebe Bridgers’ Saddest Factory Records in 2021.
Fans can stream the title track across all major platforms now. For tickets to MUNA’s upcoming shows, visit laylo.com/whereismuna/m/munatour.
Dancing On The Wall tracklisting:
It Gets So Hot
Dancing On The Wall
Eastside Girls
Wannabeher
On Call
So What
Party’s Over
Big Stick
Mary Jane
Girl’s Girl
…Unless
Why Do I Get A Good Feeling
Buzzkiller
