LISTEN: The Blinders share new track 'Swallowing Static'

The Blinders have today shared ‘Swallowing Static’, the latest track to be taken from their forthcoming third album, Beholder, which is released on Friday 1^st March 2024 via Funhouse Recordings/ EMI. The track was produced by Adam ‘Atom’ Greenspan & Nick Launey and recorded in LA in early 2023 during the album sessions.

Talking about the track, the band said:

Swallowing Static is a song of surrender. An acceptance of where you’re at, knowledge of what you are doing is probably wrong but with inability or unwillingness to change anything about it. Just suck it up. It’s stuck somewhere between longing and loathing. It doesn’t really answer anything. It only says what it sees.

The band shared the first taster from the new album, the BBC 6Music B-listed ‘Brakelights’, in October last year and played a pair of low-key warm up shows at the Dublin Castle in London and The White Hotel in Manchester in the same month. This was followed in December by ‘Always’.

The Doncaster via Manchester 4-piece’s previous albums were championed by the likes of 6Music and Radio 1 and the last couple of years have seen them make appearances at the Glastonbury and Benicassim festivals amongst others and play sold-out shows, including one at the Manchester Academy in their adopted home-town where they packed in almost 3000 fans.

One of the most exciting live bands out there right now they recently announced a run of headline shows in early spring next year. With a visceral urgency live to more than match the likes of contemporaries IDLES or Fontaines DC, they take their brooding and intense live show, which recalls the dark atmospherics of The Bad Seeds or peak-period Bunnymen, to the following venues in March:

06.03.24 – Rescue Rooms – NOTTINGHAM
07.03.24 – Thekla – BRISTOL
08.03.24 – KOKO – LONDON
09.03.24 – Castle & Falcon – BIRMINGHAM
11.03.24 – SWG3- GLASGOW
12.03.24 – Wardrobe – LEEDS
14.03.24 – New Century Hall – MANCHESTER
18.03.24 – Le Supersonic – PARIS
20.03.24 – Trix Bar Club – ANTWERP
21.03.24 – Molotow Skybar – HAMBURG
22.03.24 – Privatclub – BERLIN
24.03.24 – Blue Shell – COLOGNE
25.03.24 – Paradiso – AMSTERDAM

Tickets for the U.K. shows are on sale now via www.theblindersofficial.com