“Disturbing, ugly and seductively compelling, Strange Desires is a near perfect end of days soundtrack.” The Wire
Holy Scum, the four piece band featuring Mike Mare (Dälek,) Peter J Taylor (formerly of Action Beat), Chris Haslam (GNOD) and Jon Perry (GNOD) have just revealed 'A World About To Die –' the second track from their forthcoming 'Justin Broderick mastered' debut album 'Strange Desires', which is being released on 10 June.
Watch the video for 'A World About To Die' made by Rocket's John O'Carroll and Jon Perry from the band here above.
'Strange Desires' is available to preorder on Ltd Edition 'Pink Fog' vinyl from Bandcamp:
See Holy Scum on tour:
04 June / Birkenhead / Future Yard (w/ The Utopia Strong)
09 June / Preston The Ferret (w/ Dälek)
10 June / London Electrowerkz (w/ Dälek)
11 June / Birmingham Centrala (w/ Dälek)
12 June / Manchester White Hotel (w/ Dälek)
13 June / Newcastle Cluny (w/ Dälek)
14 June / Bristol The Lanes (w/ Dälek)
16 June / Glasgow Bloc+ (w/ Dälek)
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Initially solely a Manchester-based collaboration between Peter, Chris and Jon – Holy Scum’s debut album 'Strange Desires' is a collection of intense jam sessions from the trio recorded deep inside an old Victorian mill. These subsequent tracks were the pulled apart in production by one of half of legendary hip-hop duo Dälek, Mike Mare (aka Mike Manteca). Mile also provides the growling, guttural vocals that fight the elements around them.
The result is a thunderous tumult of sound – slabs of synapse-mangling noise that snarl their way through the scorched earth of Mare’s production. As the group howled and thrashed their way through the surrounding sonic fire, Mare kept his vocal takes to single run-throughs, keen to keep the spontaneity of the original sessions front and centre of the album.
'Strange Desires' is a record for the moment, and beyond. A celebration of the collaborative spirit in all of its twisted forms, and a howl amidst a world fallen off its axis. Holy Scum are unflinching in their confrontation of it, meeting fire with fire on this most stunning debut.
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