Impressive melody makers Nothing But Thieves will release their self-titled debut full-length on the 16th October via RCA Records.
The release will feature their prior three singles, ‘Trip Switch’, ‘Ban All The Music’ and ‘Graveyard Whistling’, as well as new track, ‘Honey Whiskey’ (which will appear on the deluxe edition).
Nothing But Thieves have enjoyed exposure on both sides of the Atlantic, as well as being confirmed for this August’s Reading and Leeds Festival.
“Many of these songs were written 2 to 3 years ago in a garage in Southend,” guitarist Joe Langridge-Brown explains. “We had a clear vision and knew what we wanted to create, so much so that we kept a lot of the takes that were recorded in the garage from the demos, which maybe isn’t the best thing in terms of sound quality, but fuck it.”
“We really tried to not give ourselves any boundaries when writing the album. Collectively we hate albums that are the same song or formula repeated 11 times, it’s boring. It seems to be a bit of a trend at the moment too. Our first EP was eclectic in itself and the album is definitely a continuation of that, we’ve stretched the sound further.”
“It’s both harder and more atmospheric. Songs like ‘Hostage’ were really nothing more than an experiment to see how electronics and dance structures changed how we sound as a band. ‘Drawing Pins’ and ‘Ban All The Music’ is purely the sound we make when the 5 of us get in a room,” he concludes.
TRACKLISTING:
01 Excuse Me
02 Ban All The Music
03 Wake Up Call
04 Itch
05 If I Get High
06 Graveyard Whistling
07 Hostage
08 Trip Switch
09 Lover, Please Stay
10 Drawing Pins
11 Painkiller
12 Tempt You (Evocation)