Rural France to return with their jangliest album to date, SLOTHS

SLOTHS sees Rural France, formed by Tom Brown (Teenage Tom Petties) and Rob Fawkes, offer what is noted as their "jangliest, most baroque and thoughtful" work to date, following their 2024 release, Exactamondo!. "Lonely Heart Pyramid Scheme", the pair's self-described "loser anthem", arrives as the first preview of the upcoming album.

Speaking about the new track, Brown says: “I’d had the title in my notes app for years. I’d made a couple of false starts trying to write the song but could never get it to quite work. It was only once I fully committed to this idea of ‘timeshare scam for sad people’ that it all clicked into place. When John added the horns, it became obvious to us that it had to be the first single. We just loved how this loser anthem felt so triumphant.”

Discussing their approach to the album, which was mixed by Rob Slater (Westside Cowboy, Yard Act, Thank), Brown adds: “Rob and I both wanted to do something a little slower and a little more melancholy. We resisted our usual urge to hit the distortion pedal and made something that fitted where we are now and celebrates how we still listen to Meatloaf when we get drunk.”

SLOTHS artwork

SLOTHS tracklist

"Slab"
"Thirty Seven Forever"
"How You Gonna Get Even?"
"Someone You Forgot"
"Lonely Heart Pyramid Scheme"
"Soulseeker"
"Jukebox Weepie"
"Casio"
"High Hopes (Ballad of Rural France)"
"Electrical Tape"