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ZELA
UNVEIL NEW TRACK, ‘HIGH WASTED GENES’
Everyone’s favourite Brat-Pop pair are back with new track, ‘High Wasted Genes’. The dark and imaginative sibling duo bring an attitude-heavy party anthem to audiences, filled with heavy basslines, distorted super synths and all of the electronic drum beats your body needs to get up on your feet. As the band explain: "’High Wasted Genes’ explores youthful freedom, bad behaviour, taking risks and the impulsivities that come with being human. It’s an unchained, passionate expression of Liv’s emotions towards the importance of surrounding yourself with those who set fire to your soul, and living in the moment when the primal urge to do so takes over.” You can listen to the track now on all major streaming platforms. GEORGINA SHINE
FONTAINES D.C.
AT STOCKTON GLOBE
Tuesday 15th November marks one of the most exciting dates yet at the refurbished Stockton Globe, as Dublin’s fast-rising, utterly kinetic rockers Fontaines D.C. arrive. The five-piece have gathered serious velocity since the release of debut album ‘Dogrel’ in 2019, with two further albums already pressed, their latest full-length ‘SkintyFia’ having ushered them to the peak of the UK and Irish Album Charts for the first respective times earlier in 2022. The very widely acclaimed ‘Dogrel’ broke through energetically, immediately positioning Fontaines D.C. at the forefront of the notable post-punk post- Brexit scene, the band clearly identified as natural leaders of the ragtag movement despite their Irish heritage keeping them at a remove from the UK-centric philosophy and sound. Registering like a lost classic of the ‘2000s garage-rock revival, the debut record packed a bounce and jaunt which quickly translated to the band becoming live favourites and stamped the lyrically-pointed track ‘Boys In The Better Land’ onto mainstream radio. Equally capable of raucous attacks like ‘Liberty Belle’ and the lolling guitar atmosphere of ‘Dublin City Sky’, all cuts were idealised soundscapes for frontman Grian Chatten’s Joycean poeticisms. On subsequent albums, Fontaines have quietly but thrillingly evolved into something moodier, darker and more restrained. 2020’s ‘A Hero’s Death’ made greater exploration of harmonic influences while pitching the gathering-storm sonics the band have since refined to perfection on highlights such as ‘Televised Mind’ and ‘Living In America’, but with bountiful balladeering such as on the gorgeous ‘Oh, Such A Spring’, speaking of a newfound diversity. Bassist Conor Deegan has rapidly unearthed one of the most thunderous but eloquent low-end underpinnings in international rock, just as the finest post-punk should always centre around. Tracks from this year’s chart-topping opus such as the title track and ‘I Love You’ constitute towering evidence of this. Tantalisingly, ‘SkintyFia’ ends the best way any album can, potentially signposting as-yet uncharted waters for the band via the irresistible, hellish shoegaze of ‘Nabokov’, where the dam that is the group’s aural cloud cover bursts more dramatically than at any prior point in their young but highly successful career. On a fast-track to becoming a future festival headline act on the strength of their album output alone, Fontaines D.C.’s visit to Stockton will be one of the most momentous post-pandemic gigs to hit the town so far, and a shining example of the calibre of act The Globe was redesigned to attract. MICHAEL JOHNSON
Tickets: £31.65 Advance | Visit: stocktonglobe.co.uk
BENEFITS
+ STRAIGHT GIRL AT POP RECS LTD, SUNDERLAND
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As we predicted earlier this year on the back of their performance in Middlesbrough, 2022 has turned out to be quite the year for Teesside's own Benefits. From topping the UK vinyl charts with their debut release 'Flag' to flooring audiences across the nation with their no-holds-barred, politically-charged wall of noise live performances, Benefits have firmly established themselves as one of this year's success stories. In addition to their headlining performance at Twisterella last month, Benefits will hit the road with Leeds-based "grave raver" Straight Girl, including a stop at Sunderland's Pop Recs Ltd on Saturday 19th November. KEV SHORT
Tickets: £10.00 Advance | Visit: seetickets.com
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