Leeds’ uncompromising post punk trio Dead Naked Hippies present ‘I Wanna Know Ya’ the thrashing new single which is taken from the eponymous debut EP out now. Scroll down to stream the EP in full…

‘I Wanna Know Ya’ is a punk pop-tinged love letter to fleeting desire as frontwoman Lucy Jowett muses ‘It’s about being momentarily obsessed with someone or something, but abruptly becoming disinterested and disposing of it’. The band are creating a unique sound, think The Yeah Yeah Yeahs at their most dancefloor-filling, via Idles town crier urgency, channelled through early Sleater Kinney. Frontwoman Lucy Jowett’s distorted vocal melodies ride the tight thumps of Jacob Marston’s drums and Joe Clarke’s layered dynamic guitar lines.

The band describe how the EP was written after the general election amidst the wave of disappointment which flowed through the left wing after initial intense optimism, juxtaposed with the band building momentum. Lucy Jowett explains how these factors fueled the writing process ‘The frustration we felt is strung through the EP and it ended up becoming an odd mix of optimism, frustration and cathartic anger. We were the happiest and most pissed off we’d ever been and you can see that laid bare in the songs.’

The band’s live reputation is growing with each show they play, blowing audiences away up and down the country. Most recently at Leeds Festival on the Festival Republic stage for Dance To The Radio’s annual festival opening event. They recently blew apart a packed Old Blue Last with their first London Headline show and will be continuing this run with shows in Newcastle, Manchester and Leeds, which are not to be missed.

All this action is culminating in the release of the bands debut EP ‘Dead Naked Hippies’, which is a four track vital, visceral and ferocious audio assault. It opens with the blistering ‘Smother’ a fast, four to the floor mosh pit tune going from speed punk to half time riffs with breathtaking ease. Following hot on its heels is lead single and Ramones esque love song ‘I Wanna Know Ya’, before the band move into uncharted territory with ‘Do I Bore You?’ a slower paced post-punk track which keeps the listener at arm’s length and see’s Lucy’s vocals channel Mark E Smith, bore us you do not. ‘Stay Quiet’ closes proceedings and the trio fire on all cylinders being as doom-laden as they are tinged with hope.

Essential, vigorous and constantly gripping. An unstoppable force meets an immovable object, Dead Naked Hippies.
TOUR DATES

24th September The Tyne Bar – Newcastle

26th September – Eagle Inn – Manchester

27th September – Hyde Park Book Club – Leeds