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KNIVES have announced their debut album!
Titled GLITTER, the upcoming album from the Bristol-based post-punk band is their debut full-length album (and the follow-up to last year’s What We See In Their Eyes EP – which featured singles Headcase and Doppelgänger, and is scheduled to be released in date this year, via Marshall Records.
Through their music and live performances, the band aims to cultivate a community that celebrates marginalised voices – an inclusive space of rebellion for people of colour and the LGBTQ+ community.
“We’re all completely different people, from different backgrounds,” bassist Ben Marshall comments. “It’s a space I’m happy to have curated because growing up and listening to METALLICA, I would never find other black people in that audience. Now we have so many queer and people of colour coming to our shows, and it feels nice to have been able to cultivate a place like that. Creating a place where people feel they belong.”
The upcoming debut album was recorded in the Welsh Valleys at Giant Wafer Studios in Llanbadarn Fynydd, under the watchful eye of producer-engineer, close friend and collaborator Dominic Bailey-Clay [DEATH GOALS, DREAM WAVE, THE BYKER GROVE FAN CLUB].
Alongside the announcement of the debut album, KNIVES have released a new song/video from the upcoming album; THE DAGGER.
Speaking about the new song, the band shares, “the lyric ‘what’s a knight to a king to a queen to a pawn’ is a crucial reference to how right-wing groups manipulate their influence over the working class, leading them to believe that immigration is to blame for their rising bills and the increase in crime.
These voices seek to evade all responsibility after neglecting to lead the country for the past 14 years! This is my favourite lyric on the track, written during the rise of Islamophobia in 2024 when the horrific riots swept across the country.”
Watch the official music video for THE DAGGER here:
Also, you can view both the track list and artwork for the upcoming new album below:
Track List:
- THE DAGGER
- RHINESTONE COWBOY
- I HOPE YOU GET IT
- EAT THY NEIGHBOUR
- PHD
- PUBLIC JUICE
- CHROMA
- POST MACHO
- ULTRAVIOLET
- YOU THINK YOU KNOW
- I SEE THEM FALL
And that’s not all from KNIVES! To support their upcoming debut album, the band will embark on an extensive tour across the UK and the European mainland in April and May.
Tour dates are as follows:
April
5 London, The Black Heart -UK
6 Exeter, The Cavern – UK
11 Cardiff Clwb Ifor Bach – UK
12 Bristol, Outer Town Festival – UK
16 Nates, Stereolux – FR
17 Bourges, Festival Printemps de Bourges – FR
18 Lille, L’aeronef – FR
19 Laval, 6PAR4 – FR
23 Rouen, Le 106 – FR
24 Paris, Point Ephemere – FR
25 Remis, Cartonnerie – FR
May
5 Deventer, In Vredes Naam Deventer Festival – NL
6 Rotterdam, V11 – NL
7 Eindhoven, Dynamo Basement – NL
8 Nijmegen, Merleyn – NL
9 Utrecht, Acu –
10 Bristol, Thekla – UK
GLITTER is set for release on May 2nd via Marshall Records. Pre-orders are available now and can be purchased here.
For more information on KNIVES like their official page on Facebook.
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