Britrock institution BRITISH SEA POWER reports back this spring with their first new studio album since 2013’s Machineries Of Joy. The band’s new LP goes by the catchy name Let The Dancers Inherit The Party and arrives on March 31 via Golden Chariot/ Caroline International. The LP has been recorded in Sussex, London, and on the Isle Of Skye while it was also crowdfunded with the help of the loyal BRITISH SEA POWER fanbase.
About the album’s character the band’s guitarist Martin Goble states:
‘It was made to a background of politicians perfecting the art of unabashed lying, of social-media echo chambers, of click-bait, and electronic Tonka Toys to keep us entertained and befuddled. All this can easily make the individual feel futile. But I think we’ve ended up addressing this confusion in an invigorating way, rather than imprisoning the listener in melancholy. Musically, it’s our most direct album and maybe the first one where we maintain a coherent mood from start to finish. Perhaps a little clarity isn’t a bad thing at this point. There wasn’t a plan to create an album with any particular subject matter but we’ve kind of ended up with a case of ’think global, act local’ – an album where individuals are dealing with their domestic and personal lives against a background of uncontrollable international lunacy.’
You can enjoy the first music video Bad Bohemian below via its colourful clip and there’s also a still quite entertaining interview with the band from four years ago on NOTHING BUT HOPE AND PASSION which you should not miss. A second song arrives in the form of Keep On Trying (Sechs Freunde) which is also up for stream below.
‘Let The Dancers Inherit The Party’ – Tracklist
01. Intro
02. Bad Bohemian
03. International Space Station
04. What You’re Doing
05. The Voice Of Ivy Lee
06. Keep On Trying (Sechs Freunde)
07. Electrical Kittens
08. Saint Jerome
09. Praise For Whatever
10. Want To Be Free
11. Don’t Let The Sun Get In The Way
12. Alone Piano
‘Keep On Trying (Sechs Freunde)’
‘Bad Bohemian’
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