Skunk Anansie have shared particulars of a brand new album ‘The Painful Fact’, following bassist Cass revealing a stage 4 most cancers analysis.
The brand new file marks the seventh studio effort from the British rock group, and their first in 9 years. It’s set to reach on Might 23 through FLG, and also will include the latest single ‘An Artist Is An Artist’.
In a brand new description of the file, the brand new materials is described as “mesmerising, provocative, highly effective and emotional”, in addition to one which exhibits the band on the peak of their powers and reflecting on their lengthy profession.
“I don’t care that we have been huge within the ’90s,” vocalist Pores and skin mentioned. “Creatively it’s irrelevant as a result of in my rock bible the primary commandment states, “If thy relaxation on them laurels thy shall wither up and die artistically, musically, mentally. After which financially.’”
Pores and skin additionally added that the file got here at a crossroads for the members – being born out of a time once they have been near claiming it a day.
“If we didn’t do one thing contemporary and forward-thinking, we couldn’t actually be a band anymore. We’d simply be doing Skunk karaoke,” the singer mentioned. “We have now made some good data in our time but it surely’s been a very long time since we now have made an incredible album. And that’s the painful reality. Understanding that, led us to creating what I genuinely suppose is our biggest file but.”
You’ll be able to pre-order ‘The Painful Fact’ right here, and take a look at the brand new single ‘Cheers’ under.
Information of the upcoming album additionally comes as bassist Cass not too long ago opened up a few stage 4 most cancers analysis.
The 64-year-old revealed that he was present process “intensive” chemotherapy whereas engaged on the brand new file. He opened up concerning the analysis at a Q&A session at Dolby Atmos in London (through Each day Mail), saying: “That’s what all of the songs are about, that connects every part, that connects what we’ve been by over the previous couple of years. It’s the reference to these guys.
“What we’re going by, and every part, it’s fairly emotional, it’s the painful reality. It’s what you’re right here for, what’s vital in your life, and what you’re going to do about it. That’s the painful reality,” he mentioned, including that not one of the members knew about his analysis in the course of the time of recording.
“I assumed my playing cards had been marked, really, and so I used to be simply, I used to be pleased with having had a very good life, and I used to be fairly content material, I accepted no matter my destiny was,” Cass defined. “I wouldn’t take into consideration the work, the file, I’d take into consideration my life. I’d had some very intensive chemo classes, and nobody knew nothing.”
Fortuitously, it appears as if Cass has gone on to obtain some constructive information for the reason that analysis. Based on Metro, round a 12 months after the bassist obtained the information, Pores and skin’s daughter all of a sudden introduced: “Uncle Cass will not be sick anymore”, and a health care provider’s appointment afterwards confirmed that medical professionals “couldn’t discover any most cancers”.
In a brand new announcement, Skunk Anansie have celebrated the information of the brand new file by saying a one-off headline present in Bristol. This might be going down on the day of the file’s launch (Might 23), and tickets can be found right here.
The present follows an upcoming run of headline dates throughout the UK and Europe that kick off this spring, in addition to two dates supporting The Smashing Pumpkins in August. Go to right here for all obtainable tickets.