When we were at the great Supernormal Festival last year, we didn't go with any plans to sign a band, particularly not one called The Shits either. But witnessing The Shits mind blowing mix of The Stooges, Brainbombs, Lubricated Goat, Drunk In Hell, live on stage, we were totally floored, and we knew this band had to be on Rocket.
So we are proud to reveal 'You're A Mess, the band's debut Rocket album will be released on 14th April.
Head over to Cvlt Nation to exclusively watch the strobe-tastic video made by Lu Küster and Pointedsick for first track revealed from the album, the repetitive monster that is 'Waiting':
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'You're A Mess' is available to preorder on 'Ash Grey Vinyl' via the Rocket Bandcamp and on 'Red Vinyl' via your local record store:
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The Shits – You're A Mess
Let’s face facts here; we’re all a mess. Life in the 2020s thus far has been a litany of crushing indignities at best. Living standards plummet, lies carry the same currency as truth, and rock music - that racket that once served as countercultural force and revolutionary fire - has been neutered and subsumed into nullity.
That’s unless you’re listening to The Shits. ‘You’re A Mess’ - the second album from Leeds’ filthiest sons - is a staggering assault of invective fit to reignite your ire, and a sound that constitutes a real and present threat to life and limb. Contained within these eight feral exorcisms is a merciless assault of Stoogian/stygian riffage, gloriously purgatorial abjection and intimidating aggro that takes a garage-rock blueprint and grinds its face in the dirt.
If these grimy dirges and salvos of horror have a precedent, it’s in the menacing audial lineage that connects Fun House through the AmRep label, Brainbombs and Drunk In Hell - the process where relentless negativity
is alchemically transformed into profane primal salvation. Yet The Shits worship no heroes, obeying a thanatotic urge that sees no separation between death and glory.
Listen to this album and you will believe once again in catharsis by way of heavy amplification. Psych-rock is dead, and The Shits are the executioners. Assume the position.
...but don't take our word for it, this is what The Quietus's John Doran says about the album:
"Terrible, terrible bastards The Shits are here with all the spiritually uplifting, life affirming, serotonin boosting properties of a dark amber, ammonia stinking, three-day rave piss, in the form of new transmission, You're A Mess. Starting with a bludgeoning, left of centre, Amphetamine Reptile punk take on The Stooges that laughs in the face of more recent flat white-sipping, pantywaisted post rock and post hardcore innovations and instead concentrates on a caustic, clangorous, bone-cracking assault on all that is right and proper. But steady your nerve, delve into their metallic, acid stripped, pig-fuck grooves and you will find a chaotic world of inverted psychedelia and jet black – fucking appalling – enlightenment waiting for you." John Doran
See The Shits live, with more shows TBA very soon:
14 April / London / Shacklewell Arms
19–23 April / Tilburg / Roadburn Festival
2 May / Manchester / The White Hotel
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