Marmozets have announced their first full-length body of work in eight years, following up 2018’s ‘Knowing What You Know Now’.
Titled ‘CO.WAR.DICE’, it will be released on May 22.
Vocalist Becca Bottomley has this to say about the record and what it represents for the quartet, explaining, “CO.WAR.DICE. is an album reflecting on the state of our world and a vow to ourselves to leave this world in a better place. We may never make a huge impact, but we can only try. Like any story there’s a beginning middle and end and we’ve chosen for a happy ending.”
The artwork looks like this:
They have also shared a new single titled ‘New York’, one of the first songs written for the project, all stemming from a Friday night jam session. The spontaneity of its birth resonates in its sound too, the hustle, bustle and limitless potential that fills the streets of NYC pouring out of pore of the track. Frenetic, fresh and fantastically fun, it’s Marmozets through and through.
Becca had this to add about the song:
“New York is an eccentric city, full of eccentric people and that inspires us. We reminisced of our first trip over a bottle of red as we recorded ideas. We met a police officer smoking a cigar outside JFK airport, got in a cab while ‘Africa’ by Toto blasted out of the radio as we approached Manhattan. We wanted to write something that kind of encapsulated that 70’s punk energy while painting a picture of this wild experience we had of playing a show downtown to secure our first record deal.”
It follows on from ‘Kiss From A Mother’, which sounds like this:
And ‘You Want The Truth’, which sounds like this:
The band are seeing out their comeback tour in style off the back of the announcement, with these dates.
JANUARY
29 – BRISTOL Thekla
30 – SOUTHAMPTON Papillon
31 – LONDON Dingwalls
