Following on from last year’s acclaimed R.O.I. album, Manchester’s Aerial Salad are set to return with a new 5-track EP titled Roi de l’herbe, to be released 27 June via Venn Records. No longer in the same line of spirit destroying day job work, with some seriously exciting gigs on the horizon, Aerial Salad wanted to kick off the next era of the band with a short, fast and hard EP and have served up five absolute bangers that sit somewhere between 2020’s Dirt Mall album and R.O.I.
The band have previewed another cut from the forthcoming EP with new single ‘Wires’, which is, as singer and guitarist Jamie Munro explains:
“an aggressive dismantling of modern work/life culture. As we head ever deeper into the digital abyss. I’d rather be on fire than have to spend my life looking at spreadsheets.
“’Wires’ is an outcry to anyone following something in life. The most ‘punk’ movement of my youth was the grime movement. It was ALL DIY, and it absolutely dominated British culture – there’s a lot of similarities between grime / punk/ hardcore. From the fashion to the beats. So, we thought we’d do a 50-pound music video ‘on a nostalgic backdrop’. ‘Wires’ picks up from where ‘Telekon 5’ left – you can’t keep drifting from what you believe in, and you can’t be tied by matters beyond what’s really important in life.”
Jamie adds:
“The EP is like the teaser for what’s next. The overall hook for this EP is one of hope, that by sticking to what you believe in you can do anything.”
Aerial Salad Live Dates
May
16 PERIGUEUX – LE MOULIN DE ROUSSEAU
17 MONTAIGU – FURY DANCE
18 RENNES – TY ANNA
June
21 NEWCASTLE – ZEROX
22 GLASGOW – THE GARAGE (ATTIC)
24 BIRMINGHAM – SUNFLOWER LOUNGE
25 LONDON – THE SOCIAL
27 MANCHESTER – SOUP
28 SHEFFIELD – CORPORATION
July
31-03/08 Y-NOT FESTIVAL
August
6-10 BOOMTOWN FESTIVAL
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