Fancy hearing a bit of Sleaford Mods’ new direction? Here’s your chance. When we say “new direction”, of course, we’re not suggesting you should actually expect anything more than a skeletal backing from Andrew Fearn, with Jason Williamson ranting over the top. It may be familiar, then, but it’s still great.
Face to Faces comes from Key Markets, which is being billed as the third “proper” album from the duo, and is released on Harbinger Sound on 10 July. “Key Markets was a large supermarket bang in the centre of Grantham from the early 1970’s up until around 1980,” explains Jason Williamson. “My mum would take me there and I’d always have a large coke in a plastic orange cup surrounded by varnished wood trimmings and big lamp shades with flowers on them. Beige bricks with bright yellow points of sale and large black foam letters surrounded you and this is why we called the album Key Markets. It’s the continuation of the day to day and how we see it, the un-incredible landscape.”
“The album was recorded in various periods between summer 2014 through to October of that year. We worked fast as we normally do, the method was the same as the other albums and like the other two, the sound has naturally moved itself along. ‘Key Markets’ is in places quite abstract but it still deals heavily with the disorientation of modern existence. It still touches on character assassination, the delusion of grandeur and the pointlessness of government politics. It’s a classic. Fuck em.”
Sleaford Mods have also announced a run of autumn gigs across the UK. You can see the complete list of shows beneath the track.
June
4 Sheffield, The Leadmill
5 London, Koko
24–28 Glastonbury festival
26 Hyde Park, London (with the Who)
September
4–6 End of the Road festival
10–13 Isle of Wight, Bestival
23 Manchester, Ritz
24 Carlisle, Brickyard
25 Newcastle, Northumbria Uni
28 Leeds, Irish Centre
29 Birmingham, Institute
October
1 Cardiff, Y-Plan
2 London, Forum
4 Bristol, Bierkeller
5 Bournemouth, Fire Station
6 Brighton, The Old Market
8 Cambridge, Junction
9 Nottingham, Rock City
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