Enjoy a preview of the follow-up to last year's excellent 'R.O.I.' album!
Manchester punk power-trio Aerial Salad are following last years acclaimed ‘R.O.I.’ album with a brand new 12” EP ‘Roi de l’herb’ to be released June 27th via Venn Records.
Listeners get their first taste of the EP today with the track ‘L.A.’ which finds Aerial Salad in a rare romantic mood.
“We’ve not done a love song in time, classic bit of love song lyrics about wearing your partners skin and crawling inside their hearts,” laughs Jamie. “We’ve (very loosely) called ourselves a ‘Madchester punk band’ (because we like the Mondays and the Roses as much as we like Title Fight and Shame) and this is a prime example of that combination of styles. We’ve been a band for a similar amount of time for High Vis, I’m a massive fan, I feel like in terms of Punk/Hardcore/Baggy crossover, they’re The Smiths, profound and jaw dropping, we’re like the Happy Mondays, chaotic and silly.
“The video was made to be surreal – the song is a frantic expression of the surreal nature of some of humanity’s most powerful emotions. The idea of the bloodied-up running is to visualise the lyric ‘I could crawl inside your beating heart’.”
21st June – Glasgow Garage
22nd June – Newcastle Cluny 2
24th June – Birmingham Sunflower Lounge
25th June – London The Social
27th June – Manchester Soup
28th June – Sheffield Corporation
Main photo credit: CHRIS BETHELL
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