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mclusky have announced a new mini-album titled i sure am getting sick of this bowling alley, a six-song release that arrives March 20th digitally and May 1st on vinyl via Ipecac Recordings. The opening track “i know computer” can be streamed now.
The two-minute number is definitively mclusky — skeletal post-hardcore structured around the prominent bass lines of Damien Sayell. Frontman Andrew “Falco” Falkous provides the guitar stabs, and the band settles into a skronky rhythmic workout by the time the chorus comes around: an utterly sarcastic chant of “it’s a real nice feeling.”
“Damien probably likes ‘I am computer’ [sic] a bit too much but that’s okay, the heart wants what the heart wants,” joked Falco in a press release.
Regarding the other songs on the mini-album, he elaborated:
“content. It drives the modern music world. photos. opinions. more photos. more opinions (please note – not all photo and are options are bad, just 99 percent of them). how about – and indulge me here – music? that content-y enough for you? fact is we can’t stop writing, at least at the moment. it’s fun (that’s all it needs to be). it’s the common denominator of band. only death will slow us down (note – it won’t stop us).
the idea for this release starts as a bit of a stop-gap – a thing with which to help promote the north american tour – and ended up as something else entirely. ‘i know computer’ and ‘as a dad’ are new and are singles (they may make the next album, who can say, it’s already half-recorded and you will like it).
‘spock culture’ and ‘hi! we’re on strike’ were recorded during the the world is still here… why didn’t they make the album? I’m not sure. Lyrically they are important historical documents. Up there with the ‘pusheen the cat’ books and/or the u.s. constitution.
‘fan learning difficulties’ and ‘that was my brain on elves’ have only had a digital release before and are, to quote british children from forty years ago, ‘skill.’ hopefully you can agree that i, and by osmosis, all of us – have read a lot of books.”
As Falkous mentioned, the mini-album’s release is timed to sync with the start of mclusky’s North American tour on March 24th in Denver. Dates run through April 11th in Washington, D.C., and you can get tickets here.
Pre-order i sure am getting sick of this bowling alley via Ipecac Recordings. Stream the video for “i know computer” and see the mini-album’s art and tracklist below.
i sure am getting sick of this bowling alley Artwork:
i sure am getting sick of this bowling alley Tracklist:
01. i know computer
02. as a dad
03. spock culture
04. hi! we’re on strike
05. fan learning difficulties
06. that was my brain on elves
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